Here we are for another check-in. I’m making slow progress on Fireborn. It’s not moving as fast as I want it to, but it’s moving and that’s the important part. Up to almost 6k.
On the Survivor front, I did poke at Survivor last Sunday and Monday, which was good. I read the first 3 chapters and the revised first scene I wrote back in 2007ish, I believe. I think this is my longest-running book ever. The read through kind of depressed me because it was so bad. Granted, the first 9 chapters or so were written in 2004, and the rest was written in 2007 and 2009, respectively. I’m assuming those parts are better, but it was just painful to read. So today I’m going to see what I can do besides mope. 😦
(For context, I started writing seriously in 2001 but didn’t really get into it until 2003. I began Survivor in 2004 for a writing class, and wrote it on Sundays, while I worked on other projects on the other days. I stopped writing it in 2005 to work on my second longest-running book, Pirouette, and didn’t pick Survivor up again till 2007, when I took a short hiatus from Pirouette. Started working on Pirouette’s second draft until 2008-2009, when I finally finished Survivor. I looked at it briefly a few years ago when I was considering working on it again and made a master file with every single plot thread in one document. I also made some decisions on what plot lines to cut. There are just too many. So…that’s where I’m at.)
Okay, return of the stats!
Project: Fireborn
Words written: 5,872 words
Words remaining: 9,128 words
What’s happening: Leliel and Rick are investigating stuffs
What’s next: Another murder/suicide
Project: Survivor
Work done to date: Read through first three chapters and alternate first scene
Feeling: Depressed and stressed.
Eye report: Horrendous for the past 2 days, but not bad at the moment
Back report: Twinge-y
Chocolate consumption: Surprisingly, not a whole lot. Although I can’t resist my Oreo balls or the WW chocolate/caramel thingies. Or M&Ms. *shifty look*
Weaver of Words 
I think your goals are pretty ambitious. Good luck.
Thank you Pamela! I need all the luck I can get!
Great job. Just keep it going.
Thanks, Mark!
Congratulations on having the energy and courage to pick up an old work. I looked through some of my old short stories recently and I was kind of mortified. I know I have a very long way to go before I can ever hope to publish, but looking back helped me to see how far I have come. Good luck on your goals from a ROW80 blog hopping friend.
Thank you, Michelle! It is really, really difficult to think about all the work involved, but I love this story so much that I can’t let it die. And, now that I’m much more experienced, I can make it so much better. 😀
No doubt you’re a much better writer now than you were in 2004 or 2007; you might end up with the edits being more of a rewrite to get everything “up to code.” I’m sure things will work out great for you.
Thanks John! I appreciate the encouragement.