Current stats:

Words: 3,080.
Total words: 4,195.
Reason for stopping: I finished chapter one.
Music: weird covers and salsa music, mostly.
Lilly: asleep in the bed.

Good news: I have finished the first chapter of Discount Armageddon, part one in the story of Verity 'Very' Price, possibly the world's only professional salsa dancer-slash-cryptozoologist (which is a combination that very rarely comes up on Craig's List). Chapter one of a brand new book, all finished and shiny!

Bad news: Yeah, I totally wrote that from the wrong POV. I was trying to experiment with actually writing a book in the third person for a change, and while that's an awesome goal that will one day be accomplished -- probably with Nativity of Chance -- this is not the book to accomplish it with. Just for giggles, I translated a few paragraphs from third person to first person, and was suddenly handed a great big bucket of awesome. Let that be a lesson to me.

Good news: I figured out what I was doing wrong after 4,000 words, not 40,000 words, and with me, that's always a bit of a risk. So while I'm going to have to do a lot of revision and rewriting and reframing, it's going to be a lot lighter and less painful than it might otherwise have been. Again, this is the good news part of our program.

Bad news: The fact that I need to do this at all is going to set me back several days in my overly-ambitious personal timeline. But again, that's okay; it means I won't get another fifty pages of text finished and wind up going 'aw, shit' as I'm forced to tear it all out and throw it all away. Flashbacks and prior-to-current-generation material remains third person, everything else, going straight to first.

And that's a wrap.

1) Return home from work basically a walking swamp, due to the summer deciding to have one last party here in California. Collapse into desk chair and download heaping piles of edits rather than doing anything that actually requires coherent thought.

2) Add some pages to the new Toby Wiki, as this requires little more than cutting and pasting, at least for now. Later, this thing is going to require heaping piles of effort and thought, but right now? I cut, I paste, I format, I get bored, I wander away to do something else.

3) Perform major surgery on Late Eclipses of the Sun, slicing the events of chapter three into four equal chunks and stapling them together in a new order before covering the scars with sticky tape and glue. Discover that the chapter is way, way better this way. Grumble.

4) Try to explain the continuity changes to the cat. The cat fails to care.

5) Send the new version of Late Eclipses to my proofing list. Get antsy. Start transitioning Discount Armageddon from third person to first person. Again, discover that the text is way, way better this way. Orders of magnitude better. 'There is no possible way you were wrong about the POV change' better. Grumble more.

6) Process some minor edits to Late Eclipses, including one that points out the fact that there is no such date as April 31st.

7) Decide to go watch Eureka with the cat.