In response to news that Israel's military "strike resulted in nearly the entire medical team, including doctors, paramedics, and nurses being killed" Jon Favreau wrote:

"Israel is killing medical workers, the United States is killing little kids, and together the two countries have killed more than 2,000 human beings. Just 3 weeks in."
#ProgressReport #OperationEpicFailure #military #politics

Took a couple of writing sessions to settle properly back into the WIP (the downside of taking some time off) but I’m rolling now — I even finished off a scene that I was fully resigned, pre-break, to leaving to the second draft.

At 30,000 words and seven chapters, I’m now technically one third through the first draft. I only just hit the end of MC’s first day 😬

Unfortunately already fighting the “this is shit” feeling that normally hits at two-thirds, but shall power through as usual. (Likely more to do with the state of the world than the state of the draft…)

On the upside, discovered a Northamptonshire slang dictionary published in the 1850s, so you better believe I’m going to make my readers suffer through my favourite Northant slang 😊

#Writing #ProgressReport

Halfway through draft 2 🎉

Last week, I deleted infodumps, this week I said goodbye to an unnecessary subplot. Word count remains about the same, however, because I filled in all the bits (so many bits) I previously skipped.

I also began to fix a plot hole whereby my MC just…fails to tell people important info for no reason (well, because I forgot to get him to do so).

I’m looking forward to the coming week, because I have one major fix, and then a very pleasant run of seven chapters where only minor fixing will be needed (because, as with the first few chapters, I already did a lot of iterative work on them in the “first” draft).

(I’m also closing in on a major sales milestone, which will happen in the next few days, and which, given I’ve got there almost entirely by word of mouth, I am pleased and *very* grateful about.)

#writing #writingCommunity #ProgressReport @writingbooks

Six chapters down in my second draft. That’s slightly over a third by page count, but substantially under a third by chapter count.

Which tells me I’ve got some big gaps coming up to fill in.

On the plus side, I finally sucked it up and deleted the two sections I *knew* were infodumpy even as I was writing them.

On track for completing second draft by end of September🤞

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Been working on my Cherry Cola guitar. It already felt great to touch and play and hear it sing beautifully without any feedback at all (big improvement in my soldering skills).

However, there were some other touches that I needed to make, specifically making room for the 5 way effects knob to use during performance (No effects, Hot Fuzz, Rock tone, heavy metal).

It fits, but that knob still needs to be soldered together to the rest, plus make room for the 5v battery with easy access.

#diy #guitarbuild #guitarbuilder #effectspedal #effects #progressreport

New post from A Head Full of Wishes
My record collection: Progress report #5 (201 - 250)
Up until now the progress reports have pretty much been nothing more than a bunch of numbers, but since we’re... #ProgressReport #MyRecordCollection

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