Der Feuervogel aufersteht.

Apparently the HS student who I was supposed to be teaching canceled, possibly permanently, while his mother shops around for a teacher. Never mind that they said they were looking for someone who would be able to teach him the next two years and wanted consistency. If I named the town they live in, any local would say, "Oh, of course." Well, private lesson 1 was interested in meeting twice a week, so we could do that instead.

I've finished reading the material for the second to last module in my certificate course. Since I'm traveling next weekend, I won't be starting the exam until after I get back, which gives me more time to make lesson plans for my classes that are actually meeting as well. I also am missing a DVD for the other module I need to do, and I hope it arrives soon.

I submitted a story to an anthology. I'm still waiting to hear back on a piece I sent to an editor last November. The slush reader said he's looking into it. (It's in the editor's inbox, somewhere. You have to ask him about it.) So I have three stories out right now.

If all works out, and I can get this nonfiction book read in time, I might try to get a reasonable first draft of ACARP together. (It still needs a title; I do not like naming things, I am bad at it; I don't understand how people name their cars and houses and stuffed animals and things.) I was planning to do that after I finish the certificate, so we'll see.

Also, convention planning continues apace.

+710, 50410

I've figured out how the novel really ends. Or the climax, anyway. Not sure how to get the denouement in. That's going to be the exciting part :P

+665, 49215

If the word counts don't seem to add up day to day, there seems to be a bug in Scrivener that randomly loses words from the tally and returns them if I scroll through the scene list. It originally said 45-something, and I thought, hey, that's not right.

Wednesday: +570
Today: +740, 47255

I keep finding scenes that need to exist, which means the completion date keeps moving further. :/

+845, 45265.

I'm in the process of writing scene by scene synopses of the current novel, as well as saying what purpose it serves (characterization, tension, worldbuilding, etc) and where it fits in the 5-act structure. It's slow going, because I can only focus on it for about an hour or so at a time.

After I finish that, I'm going to have to figure out how it ends. I had a couple ideas when I started, a kind of forked path, and I really need to decide which branch it takes. It may even be one I hadn't thought of when I started, but I doubt that.

Have three pieces out on submission still. One of them I might hear back about while I'm in Germany, which will be interesting if they accept it and want revisions. "Yeah, I'm currently in Germany doing a teaching internship, uh, can you wait another couple weeks on that?" Because I don't know how much time I'll have outside the teaching part, and I know I won't be much able to refocus into making good English words after having spent all day thinking in German.

But that assumes they accept the piece at all, so.

+310, 43545

I think this scene is finally done, and I can move on to the next.

+275, 42865

It's been pulling teeth to get words out the last few days. I don't know why.

+620, 42210

+755, 41055.

Getting back into the swing of writing after a long pause is HARD. Half the effort is figuring out what I was doing...

+670, 39675.

I was aiming for 1000 so I could hit the magic 40k novel point, but I reached the end of this scene.

+610, 38110

1900 words from an official novel, according to the Nebula and Hugo definitions.

Also, the Pacific Rim soundtrack makes writing more fun. And more epic.

+125, 37310

This doesn't actually reflect how many words I wrote. I sat down and made a spreadsheet with a timeline, and it turned out I got a lot of the timing wrong on this particular day, so I have to go back and fix half a dozen scenes. THIS IS THE WORST. What I actually wrote is probably closer to 500 words, but you only see the net count here.

I don't *think* the next 4 scenes will require such extensive reworking, so I'll be able to keep moving forward soon. I don't like editing as I write. I lose all forward momentum.

+505, 36565

+700, 35555.

I'm still about 2/3 of the way through my outline. I keep finding things that need to be added.