making discoveries

Perhaps I should make a habit of posting regularly in an effort to motivate myself and track my progress. Every Sunday works well for me; a beautiful perk of having a fixed schedule.

Last week, the book containing Project: Destiny spent all week in the backpack I bring to and from work. In the train I managed to write another 1,000 words of chapter seven, and it feels close to being finished. More importantly, I made myself write no matter what was going around me, without worrying what anyone might think. It felt good.

Moving forward has given me ideas on how to change the outline, especially with regard to certain older elements that once were there that have since been removed. It’s interesting how the more I write this story, the more I find reasons to include things, the more things fall into place and make sense. I may not be travelling the same road as the explorers or adventurers in the story, and yet I am making discoveries it seems.

 

kickstarting this

I have not completed a chapter of Project: Destiny since August. I did some restructuring, some writing on Google Drive, and it’s not enough. All previous chapters posted here come from a physical book that I wrote them in first, then typed them up here with only the most minor revisions (generally, spelling errors resulting from thinking faster than I can write).

The bullshit ends here. That book is going into my backpack, which I bring to and from work everyday. While I am in the train, the metro, or on break at work; it will be near at hand and ready to be written in. I will make a stronger effort to write everyday. I have my chapter summaries online to reference, but everyone knows that these things are no more than waystones in the forest and that the true path through the undergrowth is often more twisted and meandering than one can anticipate.