This morning on Twitter, someone posted their commit log for a book they'd written. The commit messages read "Book," "Book and stuff," "I erased a bunch of stuff," "Book stuff," "More stuff," etc. etc. Basically, a bad commit log.
I decided, in the interests of science! to show my work. While a lot of it is "stuff," there are some interesting tidbits, like "Making room here for a straight sex scene," and my favorite, "Please stop talking and start boinking, girls." Note that it is in reverse order, most recent at the top:
| Sun Aug 2, 2015 | Getting ready for final epub edition. |
| Sat Jul 18, 2015 | Stuff and nonsense. |
| Thu Jul 9, 2015 | Fixing markdown issue. |
| Wed Jul 1, 2015 | Star Kingdom: The End. |
| Wed Jun 24, 2015 | Whoa. *Star Kingdom* is done. |
| Thu Jun 4, 2015 | More renamed than deleted. |
| Thu Jun 4, 2015 | Working toward a better Boomer, and cleaning up the epilogue. |
| Thu May 21, 2015 | So close to the end of Star Kingdom now. |
| Fri May 8, 2015 | Lots of updates. |
| Thu Apr 23, 2015 | Make it sew. |
| Wed Apr 1, 2015 | A makefile? What is the world coming to? |
| Wed Apr 1, 2015 | Don't track epubs. |
| Wed Apr 1, 2015 | Update. |
| Fri Mar 27, 2015 | Some fixes, for Tumblr and FanFic. |
| Fri Mar 27, 2015 | Lots of fixes, updates, getting to the last act. |
| Mon Mar 23, 2015 | More great sex. |
| Wed Mar 18, 2015 | Change of pace. Please stop talking and start boinking, girls. |
| Mon Mar 16, 2015 | Less talking, more sex. |
| Tue Mar 10, 2015 | Moved to the 'kidnapping' scene. |
| Fri Mar 6, 2015 | Lengthening the plot. |
| Wed Mar 4, 2015 | Breathless revised by voice read. Fragile prepped for Tumblr. Walk With Me prepped for FanFic. |
| Mon Mar 2, 2015 | Slowly fixing the forward series. |
| Sun Feb 15, 2015 | Lyren leaves. Sien pines. |
| Sun Feb 15, 2015 | I have better versions planned. |
| Sun Feb 15, 2015 | Updates. Grand Jujube is ridiculous, but... |
| Sat Feb 14, 2015 | Updates with typo fixings. |
| Mon Feb 9, 2015 | Gene/Rachel sex scene accomplished. |
| Sat Feb 7, 2015 | Really moving along now. |
| Sun Jan 18, 2015 | Moved some stuff around to make room for straight sex. |
| Sun Jan 4, 2015 | Moving filenames to something pandoc and emacs handle better. |
| Thu Dec 25, 2014 | Updated. |
| Tue Dec 23, 2014 | Finished Boomer. Working on Star Kingdom plot as it winds along. |
| Wed Dec 3, 2014 | Update. Spell check. |
| Sat Nov 8, 2014 | Boomer is doing pretty good. |
| Tue Oct 28, 2014 | Getting somewhere slowly. |
| Wed Oct 22, 2014 | Update. |
| Mon Oct 20, 2014 | Here comes the next big set piece. |
| Mon Oct 20, 2014 | Polish pass, plus moving into crisis for act 2. |
| Wed Oct 8, 2014 | Small fixes for flow. |
| Wed Oct 8, 2014 | Added titles and stuff. Moving to Markdown permanently. |
| Wed Oct 8, 2014 | Checkpoint. |
| Mon Sep 29, 2014 | Reworking the love scene. |
| Wed Sep 17, 2014 | Working up to chapter 14 |
| Sun Sep 14, 2014 | Clean up. |
| Mon Sep 8, 2014 | Review. Still stuck on identifying the bad guys. |
| Sun Sep 7, 2014 | Edit pass. |
| Sun Aug 31, 2014 | Sounds like progress. |
| Thu Jul 24, 2014 | Post-sex-scene conversation. |
| Wed Jul 23, 2014 | Updating the plot. |
| Sun Jul 20, 2014 | Thinking about revamping chapter one to make the dialogue between Ericka and Garrit less a mirror of the kingdom's "democracy" and more a kitchen table afair. |
| Thu Jul 10, 2014 | The love scene is moving on up. |
| Tue Jul 8, 2014 | Lyren and Sien, Sittin' in a Tree... |
| Sat Jul 5, 2014 | Updating. |
| Sun Jun 29, 2014 | Star Kingdom under way. Boomer under way. |
| Wed Jun 25, 2014 | It's starting to look like a novel again. Yay! |
| Sat Jun 21, 2014 | Still working on that outline. |
| Sat May 24, 2014 | Updated. |
| Tue May 13, 2014 | Different plot engaged, captain. |
| Thu May 8, 2014 | Clearing out a chapter for a new direction. This is the point in a space opera novel where the shit always hits the fan much, much harder. |
| Tue May 6, 2014 | Re-arranged sequence. |
| Tue May 6, 2014 | Through the second attack. But now the ramifications have to be more. |
| Sat Apr 19, 2014 | Revised Lyren's injuries to make her sex-capable. |
| Thu Apr 17, 2014 | Star Kingdom first pass. |