For my first book, the Celtic Shelf, I would routinely post new journal entries every week containing little more than the current page count. This became real annoying real fast. So this time around, I'm just going to routinely update this journal every friday afternoon. No, I don't expect you to actually care about any of this. I just do it to force myself to be productive. Occasionally it works.

(BTW - that's the total page count down there, not the number of pages written this week - like in my dreams )

Week in Review
Sometimes I just wonder why I write. The week went well, not great by any means but good enough – up until the last few days when I discovered that the elves in my story (and yes, it does have elves in it, albeit prehistoric ones) would actually not have bows but blowguns. Seems like a small piddling detail, yet it left me altering much of the original plot, throwing out one chapter and rewriting two others. So it's been an ugh of a week and next week promises more of the same.

First Draft
12/18/09 - 37 -
12/11/09 - 26 -
12/04/09 - 22 -
11/20/09 - 15 -
11/16/09 - 0 -

Rough Draft
11/13/09 - 136 -
11/06/09 - 103 -
10/30/09 - 78 -
10/23/09 - 75 -
10/16/09 - 61 -
10/09/09 - 36 -
10/02/09 - 21 -
09/28/09 - begun -