May 2024 in writing
Good progress From May 25:
At this point in Draft 1, I could tell that POV 2 needed some major structural overhauls. At this point in Draft 2.5, I can tell POV 2’s prose needs some rewriting to work, but overall the structure seems to be holding up. Progress :)
I wrote 18 scenes in 31 days, not my preferred pace but I’m getting there. I also reduced the total number of scenes down to 96.
iPad and Raspberry Pi
iPad Workarounds I’ve written before how I love the iPad form factor, but how it lacks in basic functionality. I’m not alone in this. I agree with many of the gripes, and many of the calls to mix the functionality of macOS and iPadOS, but my largest pain point is the lack of a fully functioning terminal.
I’ve largely solved this by SSHing from my iPad, into my Mac (at home) over Tailscale.
April 2024 in writing
Still slowly but surely From April 23:
Since then, I edited 7 scenes from the 2nd POV, bringing me to 37 scenes out of 98 completed for Draft 2.5. At this average rate, I’ll finish sometime in August. But if I keep up the scene per day from the past week, I may finish at the end of July.
First person I also dabbled a bit with converting the 1st POV from third-person limited, past-tense into first person, past-tense.
March 2024 in writing
Slowly but surely I’m drafting again. Slower than I want to be, but I think the quality is higher. (Sometimes I’ve gone back to my first draft to rewrite a scene, and I’ve ended up throwing it out completely. Better to start from scratch on those than try to rescue any words.)
The new structure seems to be working so far. The alarm bells that went off during the first draft, warning me that the story just isn’t working, have been relatively quiet.
February 2024 in writing
I’m back My github activity shows I’m out of my December/January productivity slump :)
One outline to rule them all In February I combined all of my small single-arc plot tables into one massive table spanning the entire book. While this was challenging, I now find the story exploding in my mind, a non-stop chain reaction of ideas. I can see the book in its entirety at a high level, and I can dig down to subtle details.