I wish there was some way to put the brakes on December - the days are slipping by so quickly.
No writing accomplished this week. As I mentioned earlier, I had to run up to NYC for an audition on Monday (my day off), and being stuck on a Bolt bus for 4.5 hours each way is not exactly conducive to writing. And (in a good news/bad news kind of way), I got a callback for the show, so this coming Monday I will back traveling back to NYC again. My audition slot is in the morning this time, which means I had to pop for Amtrak for my trip up, but at least I'll be done by noon and on my way home shortly thereafter (on the bus again), and might actually end up with a few hours of my day off to myself. On the upside, I got some reading done, although I haven't actually finished a single book yet (in fact, I started a new one).
I heard from the last of my betas - a phone call - and as expected, she "got" what's going on with my MC and why he's being such a miserable prick. She hasn't sent me her actual notes, so I'm holding off calling goal #2 "done."
The rest of my week was all about "making Christmas" - I got the house decorated, some baking done and all my Christmas shopping completed, with the exception of a gift for my 95 year-old mother, who has everything and needs nothing. I'm thinking I might print out a short story I wrote last year for the Sekrit Solstice game and give it to her, since she was the inspiration for the main character.
Start first editing pass on Book #4 in my fantasy series - still on Chapter 1
Go over beta notes on Book #3 (as they come in) - 3 of 3 (waiting for notes)
Finish the three books I started last month - 0 of 3
Finish David McCullough's The Path Between the Seas - currently on Page 451
Continue with holiday baking - snickerdoodles and chocolate cupcakes this week!