So, September’s over now. \u00a0Where in the heck did all that time go? \u00a0In some ways, I can still remember the summer…but in other ways, it’s never been further away.<\/p>\n
So, what did I do this past month? \u00a0Plenty. \u00a0I got a good start on school (14 credits this semester), I quit the writing advisor job and replaced it with two TA jobs, and I turned 25 years old. \u00a0Quarter century…and still in school. \u00a0I feel like some kind of relic. “An elegant weapon for a more civilized age…”<\/p>\n
As far as writing goes, I wrote 41,649 words total, averaging 1,602 words per day (not counting Sundays–counting Sundays, I averaged 1,388). \u00a0I passed the 3\/4ths mark on Bringing Stella Home<\/em> 2.0 and started work on Genesis Earth<\/em> 4.0.<\/p>\n Not bad! \u00a0I’m surprised I wrote so much; 41k is almost as much as nanowrimo. \u00a0However, I can’t help but wonder: how many of those words are good<\/em> words?<\/p>\n It’s a much more subjective thing to measure, but I do feel that my craft has improved. \u00a0Now that I’ve started the rewrite on\u00a0Genesis Earth, <\/em>I’m catching a surprising number of sentences and paragraphs that could be much better phrased. \u00a0For today, I “wrote” 1,616 words, but only got about 1,000 words further into the story (I measure wordcount with compare documents, totaling all the deletions and additions). \u00a0After the last revision–just last July–I felt very satisfied with the draft as I’d written it. \u00a0The fact that I’m changing so much on this rewrite shows that I’ve set the bar a lot higher for quality of writing (at least, I hope<\/em> that’s what it means).<\/p>\n School is still kicking my trash. \u00a0I’ve got papers up the wazoo this entire month–3 major ones, two minor ones, and at least one midterm, not to mention all the midterms and papers I’ll be grading. \u00a0Oh, and I’m reading about a dozen academic articles per week. <\/em>Dense articles. \u00a0The kind that suck your life out through your eyes.<\/p>\n Because of all that, and because of World Fantasy at the end of the month, I’ve decided to \u00a0put Bringing Stella Home<\/em> on temporary hold until I finish the revision of Genesis Earth.<\/em> Got to put priorities first, and that’s how it falls. \u00a0If the revision takes longer than expected, I may have to change my personal deadline for Bringing Stella Home<\/em> to Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n But come Thanksgiving, I am definitely<\/em> starting something new!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So, September’s over now. \u00a0Where in the heck did all that time go? \u00a0In some ways, I can still remember the summer…but in other ways, it’s never been further away. So, what did I do this past month? \u00a0Plenty. \u00a0I got a good start on school (14 credits this semester), I quit the writing advisor… Continue reading September recap<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[68,32],"tags":[34,292,46,156,39,119,599,312,84],"class_list":["post-1130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bsh","category-ge","tag-college-life","tag-fhss-writing-lab","tag-goals-and-plans","tag-revising","tag-schoolwork","tag-summer-2009","tag-thoughts-reflections","tag-work","tag-world-fantasy-2009","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-ie","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1130"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1132,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions\/1132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}