May 25, 2024 – August 31, 2024 (Book 1)
Goal
- Finish the damn draft
Summary
- 40 work sessions
- 63.75 hours
- Draft started at 33k, up to 60k
Work sessions
Week 11: 5 hours
- Friday August 9: 1 hour (1 work session)
- 11:30-12:30: editing
- Tuesday August 6: 2 hours (1 work session)
- 2-3, 3-4: editing
- Monday August 5: 2 hours (1 work session)
- 2-3, 3-4: editing, outlining
Week 10: 9.5 hours
- Friday August 2: 1.25 hours (1 work session)
- 12-12:30, 12:45-1:30: editing
- Thursday August 1: 2.75 hours (2 work sessions)
- 12:45-1:30: editing
- 2-3, 3-4: editing, writing
- Wednesday July 31: 5.5 hours (2 work sessions)
- 10:45-11:30, 11:45-12:30, 12:45-1:30: outlining, reorganizing, editing
- 3-4pm, 4-5:15pm: editing, writing
Week 9: 5.75 hours
- Friday July 26: 2.5 hours (1 work session)
- 10:30-11:30: update outline to reflect what’s written so far
- 11:45-12:30, 12:45-1:30: editing, writing, planning
- Thursday July 25: 1 hour (1 work session)
- 3-4pm: editing, thinking
- Tuesday July 23: 1 hour 15 minutes (2 work sessions)
- 3-4pm: editing
- 1-1:30pm: editing
- Monday July 22: 1 hour (1 work session)
- 3-4pm: editing
Week 8: 1.75 hours
- Sunday July 21: 45 minutes (1 work session)
- 11:15-12pm: editing
- Thursday July 18: 1 hour (1 work session)
- 4-5pm: writing
Week 7: 2.75 hours
- Tuesday July 9: 2.25 hours (1 work session)
- 10:30-11:30, 11:45-12:45, 1:15-1:30: writing
- Monday July 8: 30 minutes (1 work session)
- 3:30-4pm: writing scene
Week 6: 2 hours
- Sunday July 7: 2 hours (2 work sessions)
- 2:30-3:30pm: edited scene
- 8-9pm: started writing new scene
Week 5: 1 hour
- Monday June 24: 1 hour (1 work session)
- 4-5pm: wrote + edited scene
Week 4: 5 hours
- Friday June 21: 2.25 hours (1 work session)
- 11-11:30, 11:45-12:30, 12:30-1:30: move material around, rough in scenes
- Tuesday June 18: 2.75 hours (2 work sessions)
- 11:15am-12pm: continued editing / writing scene
- 12-1: finished writing scene
- 3-4pm: moved material around between scenes
Week 3: 6.5 hours
- Thursday June 13: 1.75 hours (1 work session)
- 3-4pm: started editing a scene
- 4:15-5pm: continued editing scene
- Wednesday June 12: 1 hour (1 work session)
- 8-9pm: finished editing a scene
- Tuesday June 11: 2 hours (1 work session)
- 3-4pm: edited a scene, started editing a second scene
- 4-5pm: wrote a portion of a new scene
- Monday June 10: 1.75 hours (1 work session)
- 3-4pm: made a task list, reviewed scenes for edits, started editing a scene
- 4:15-5pm: finished editing scene
Week 2: 8.75 hours
- Tuesday June 4: 2 hours (1 work session)
- 7-9pm: edited another scene
- Monday June 3: 1 hour (1 work session)
- 7-8pm: edited a scene
- Sunday June 2: 2.5 hours (1 work session)
- 10:30-11:30, 11:45-12:00, 12:15-12:30, 12:30-1:30: work on outline
- Saturday June 1: 3.25 hours (2 work sessions)
- 11-11:15, 11:30-1:30: refined outline
- 7-8pm: filled in missing pieces of outline
Week 1: 16.5 hours
- Thursday May 30: 1 hour (1 work session)
- 3-4pm: refined outline
- Wednesday May 29: 3 hours (2 work sessions)
- 3-4pm: refined outline
- 7-8pm: adjusting scenes
- 8-9: scene and sequel planning
- Tuesday May 28: 1 hour (1 work session)
- 8-9pm: tried out emotional dominoes, refined outline
- Monday May 27: 2 hours (1 work session)
- 7-8pm, 8:20-9:20pm: pulled in text
- Sunday May 26: 5 hours (2 work sessions)
- 10:30-1:30: adjusted ordering, pulled in new text, cleaned up file, expanded outline
- 7-9pm: pulled in text
- Saturday May 25: 4.5 hours (2 work sessions)
- 10:30-1:30: reviewed and refined simplified outline
- 8-8:30: set up folder structure
- 8:30-9:30: address trouble areas
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