I am about two-thirds finished with the re-write of issue #1, and perhaps about half-finished with the re-design of the Web site. Unfortunately, last night’s WordPress upgrade debacle didn’t help matters; not only did it cost me an entire evening of productivity last night, but the resulting sleep deprivation has made it harder than hell to write anything decent today as well.

Then there are the character designs, which I haven’t touched yet.

Factor in that I’m going out to dinner tomorrow and having company over on Saturday, and making my self-imposed deadline is going to be a strain. But I am NOT giving up now. The script is shaping up really well — better than I’d hoped, in fact – and I know I can polish off the character sketches in a few hours. Finally, a great deal of the site re-design from here on will consist of re-using elements I’ve already designed.

I am NOT punking out. Somehow, some way, I’m seeing this one through. Why? Because, if I do say so myself, I think The Victory Streak is a story that deserves to be told. And I owe it to myself to see my dream come to fruition.

Yesterday I attempted to install a security plug-in that worked so well it kept ME out of my blog. I thought upgrading to the latest version of WordPress might help, but the upgrade busted my blog but good. I was up until 2 a.m. fixing it.

The result? I scrapped the security plug-in (it’s called “Bad Behavior,” an ironically apt name) and had to change my blog’s theme to one that is compatible with the upgrade to WordPress 2.2.

All better. All better.