Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Signs and Portents: Trinity Metrics 09


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METRICS
New Words: 1185
Part One total: 8625
Part Two total: 3134
Author's Note total: 540
Total words for first draft: 12299
What I Accomplished in the Narrative Today: So we are a short transition away from on their way to Italy.
Fave line: "I'm not so aerodynamic with suitcases."
What Else I Accomplished Today: Dishes are done. That leaves pet care, snack buying, clothes packing, and vacuuming before Friday.
What Else Has Happened: Mom said she bought pullets. They look like biddies to me. Her last remaining chicken was not pleased about newcomers.
What I'm looking forward to: Everyone to make their April plans so I can make mine.
What I'm not looking forward to: Scheduling the crap I have to deal with in April. For some strange reason, everyone else wants my weekends.

Monday, March 30, 2015

Signs and Portents: Trinity Metrics 08


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METRICS
New Words: 1045
Part One total: 8625
Part Two total: 2032
Author's Note total: 457
Total words for first draft: 11114
What I Accomplished in the Narrative Today: Confrontation with Lois has begun.
Fave line: "You be nice. Somebody's gotta cover the Gotham glower."
What Else I Accomplished Today: I discovered the desktop computer has a new issue. It keeps rebooting itself. It happened Sunday, and Windows told me it was a battery issue. I had a power flicker, so I figured that was the culprit. Tonight it did it with no reason given nor a power flicker.
What Else Has Happened:
What I'm looking forward to: Everyone to make their April plans so I can make mine.
What I'm not looking forward to: Scheduling the crap I have to deal with in April. For some strange reason, everyone else wants my weekends.

Sunday, March 29, 2015

Signs and Portents: Trinity Metrics 07


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METRICS
New Words: 198
Part One total: 8625
Part Two total: 987
Author's Note total: 457
Total words for first draft: 10069
What I Accomplished in the Narrative Today: Revamped the fight with Poison Ivy.
Fave line: "So fire and chainsaws if she wants to reboot A Nightmare Before Christmas next year."
What Else I Accomplished Today: Laundry and some dishes.
What Else Has Happened: I also cleaned game trials which I will not buy off the desktop and cleared around a 100GB of space. I had no idea I had used up so much.
What I'm looking forward to: Everyone to make their April plans so I can make mine.
What I'm not looking forward to: The funeral on Saturday.

Friday, March 27, 2015

Signs and Portents: Trinity Metrics 06


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METRICS
New Words: 1008
Part One total: 8625
Part Two total: 789
Author's Note total: 457
Total words for first draft: 9871
What I Accomplished in the Narrative Today: Christmas with Pammy!
Fave line: "Didn't get a chance to ask him, but we should remember the kill the plants with fire tactic for next time."
What Else I Accomplished Today: I made it through this week; what more do you want from me?
What Else Has Happened:
What I'm looking forward to: Everyone to make their April plans so I can make mine.
What I'm not looking forward to: The funeral on Saturday.

Thursday, March 26, 2015

Signs and Portents: Trinity Metrics 05


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METRICS
New Words: 1375
Part One total: 8863
Total words for first draft: 8863
What I Accomplished in the Narrative Today: Finished Part One. On to Part Two, Christmas Eve in Gotham City.
Fave line: "I'll great Caesar's ghost his ass," she crossed her arms as she leaned back in the chair.
What Else I Accomplished Today: I pulled the next three months clothes out of the closet because it was too warm to wear a sweater today.
What Else Has Happened: Oh good nothing did.
What I'm looking forward to: Everyone to make their April plans so I can make mine.
What I'm not looking forward to: The funeral on Saturday.

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Signs and Portents: Trinity Metrics 04


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METRICS
New Words: 422
Part One total: 7488
Total words for first draft: 7488
What I Accomplished in the Narrative Today: My end word count estimate may be off since I haven't reached the first plot point yet.
Fave line: "No, Faora and I fought through the IHOP. The library's on Third Street; we didn't fight there so it should be okay. Do you need to get online right now?"
What Else I Accomplished Today: Another day I arrived at the paying job late. I'm done with that this week.
What Else Has Happened: I got all my errands done.
What I'm looking forward to: Everyone to make their April plans so I can make mine.
What I'm not looking forward to: The funeral on Saturday.

Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Signs and Portents: Trinity Metrics 03


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METRICS
New Words: 528
Part One total: 7066
Total words for first draft: 7066
What I Accomplished in the Narrative Today: Okay, today felt like good work day judging effort on my part. I don't trust the numbers because there were days in the past week that I took off of the story in which I did managed to write a sentence or two but never had an extended period of writing. Today I got that.
Fave line: Really, she would have more respect for him if he had just talked to the military instead of seeing him on CNN while she was getting dressed for work.
What Else I Accomplished Today: Dosed whatever I'm coming down with and went to bed on time.
What Else Has Happened: Paying job got snippy about priorities, so I had to not pull the laptop out for about a week. That has died down, but Monday we found out that a coworker's son died over the weekend. He turned even the year I started working at the DOI and would have turned 21 in December this year. Needless to say, we're all still reeling with shock.
What I'm looking forward to: Spring.
What I'm not looking forward to: The funeral on Saturday.

Monday, March 16, 2015

Signs and Portents: Trinity Metrics 02


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METRICS
New Words: 2511
Part One total: 6538
Total words for first draft: 6538
What I Accomplished in the Narrative Today: I know what I haven't been doing is my daily metrics when I can actually remember when I typed what.
Fave line: "Brain Gerhardsson broke into tears when he saw the Sears store. I didn't have the heart to tell him about the truck through the roof here after that."
What Else I Accomplished Today: Discovered an interesting quirk with the solid state drive, the beat sheet file disappeared. I backed up everything to the desktop and copied over the last version, so no information lost. But I wouldn't delete that file so I didn't know why it had disappeared. This morning, it's back on the solid state drive. I'm going to be more careful about ejecting it before turning the laptop because that is the only thing I can think of that might be causing it.
What I'm looking forward to: Spring.
What I'm not looking forward to: Painting the front porch.

Sunday, March 01, 2015

Signs and Portents: Trinity Metrics 01


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METRICS
New Words: 4027
Part One total: 4027
Total words for first draft: 4027
What I Accomplished in the Narrative Today: I've been writing steady since February 19th, but forgot to fill out the metrics posts. :p I think I was anxious about putting the first scene into narrative. The visual and most of the dialogue, easy; military jargon and procedures, no clue. It's over now and I'm in Metropolis after movie footage so hopefully less to get bogged down in.

In secondary news, I'm typing the rough draft directly onto the laptop. So far it is working out while traveling back and forth to work.
Fave line: "Holy shit, you're Batman." – Do you have any idea how hard it is to come up with Holy whatever that's not cussing when that's really the first thought in your head? Or yeah, I finally gave one to a character whose first instinct is to cuss.
What Else I Accomplished Today: Bork, nothing really. This was a hibernating weekend.
What I'm looking forward to: Spring.
What I'm not looking forward to: Painting the front porch.