Just a quick post to let you know that I'm still plugging away at the shapeless, ever-growing mass of words that is Week Eight's challenge.
Because things have been hectic for me (two jobs, domestic responsibilities, social commitments, holidays, birthdays, Dragon Age: Origins...), I've had to find a more flexible way to write in the few spare moments I have. So when I'm home, I'll type up what I've written longhand and then try to write past that. When I'm away from home, however, I'll try to write at least two sentences from where I remember leaving off.
This wasn't a deliberate stroke of genius so much as simply what happened one day, but the end result was that, over the course of a week, I ended up accidentally rewriting the latest passage of the story. Later, when I discovered my mistake, I was actually able to combine bits and pieces of both into a paragraph that was stronger than either previous version. Voltron-style. I had been stuck on that paragraph, and somehow this process allowed me to find an intuitive way past it.
So anyway, it's coming along, and as a reprieve from longer works (and even longer waits between works), I think for Week Nine I'm going to try a microfiction week wherein I burn through one prompt a day, Monday–Friday. This will be a good excuse to build some momentum back up, and also to get some of the truly stupid prompts I've been avoiding out of the way.
How's it going for you?