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RE:New Update

Or: Where We’ve Managed to Get To

The project, by and large, is a big ask for such a timeline, and given the other commitments that need to be prioritised, I will most likely need to scale back a bit, particularly from this point forward, in order to give proper focus to my final masters’ project.  That said, this has been an amazing opportunity so far to incorporate new project organisation standards and has given me a few dedicated hours a week to spend on a project that is near and dear to me.

Tools

The toolset has not changed.  I am still using primarily Microsoft Word to enact the writing and Trello for organisation.  I have expanded my usage of Trello to possibly corral some ideas for later.

Progress on Goals

Original goals were as such:

• A concrete outline for the full two-part story.
• *Main Goal* A robust and largely complete manuscript for the first half of the events occurring before The Fall.
• *Stretch Goal* A work-in-progress of the second half of the events occurring before The Fall.

To date I have a full outline for the events leading up to The Fall (the first part of the overall narrative and half of the original goal).  However, given the nature of writing, I’ve attempted to expand upon events, making the Trello outline out of date.  I may try and compound the narrative later.

Progress on Specific Deadlines

• Revised outline of the events before The Fall is completed
• Chapters 1-8 are complete, a bit behind schedule of projected deadlines, and quite a bit different from the original plan

Given the slight discrepancy in timeline, the original schedule stands.

That said, reactive response editing cannot occur without responses, therefore a PDF of finished chapters shall be available at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzrkSxwnXX1_WmNSWE5RbEwtRUE/view?usp=sharing

Chapters seven and eight are linked below:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BzrkSxwnXX1_MW1zWUNsWHpDdXc

Don’t have as many chapters done this week as I’d like, but the milestone events are still intact and that’s what’s important.  Maybe I’m putting too much into the backstory?  Chapters five and six are linked below.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BzrkSxwnXX1_bnhjcHZRNmlodjg

So far the major milestones are largely in place, though I’ve expanded the background storytelling to give more of a base and changed some of the names from the original plan to create more of a fantasy feel. Maybe that change was unnecessary?  Chapters 2-4 are linked below.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BzrkSxwnXX1_MDR5MlVYeTVoOG8

Outline and first chapter are done, though I’m not sure I’ll stick to my outline as closely as I would like.  I suppose it’s more the order of events that needs to remain intact that the minutia.

The outline, such as it is, is up on Trello and the prologue (a bit of text art I’m particularly happy with), as well as the first chapter, are linked here.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BzrkSxwnXX1_ZTd5cVJva1liRGc

Animalia RENew Proposal

The plan is set in place to utilise this course over the term to work on personal writing, to hope to produce at least half of a publisher-ready manuscript, and if things go well, the whole of the first novella.  First thing is to finish the new outline, which already my mind is spinning on diverging from (as I have done with every other outline for this manuscript I have created), but perhaps I can combine some old with some new and accomplish my goal.