My ongoing novel project has been progressing quite well of late. It is a comprehensive effort with many facets, and I am trying to juggle all of them in order to make reasonable progress before the start of school in a couple of weeks.

One part of this project is a web application, designed to enhance and complement the book narrative. The nature of the story demands several presentations, which is why I am building this site, and also taking the time to learn LaTeX and typeset the book myself. It is a total creation, one that I wish to have control over from start to finish.

However, I like to be transparent about what I'm working on, how, and when. One thing I have struggled with as a writer is simply writing, consistently and without succumbing to superficial habits and anxieties. I have learned that this is detrimental not only to my own production as an artist, but also affects how I see the world. When I am not writing, I am not in the world as fully as I can or ought to be. Whence the creation of this blog as well.

This post serves to experimentally introduce a weekly, or maybe bi-weekly once the semester begins, report on how much writing I'm doing, and on what topics. Naturally, it will favor the discussion of the novel itself, but if I write a blog post or school paper of general interest, perhaps I will mention it as well.

Something like this was provisionally included on the web app for the book itself, but I decided that it was a little too didactic for that purpose, and is better suited here on this page, where the report generation can be easily built into the publishing of a static site like this.