JanNoWriMo 2016

I reached all my goals for last week.

This week's goals:

• Write a post on Monday, Wednesday and Friday for on this blog.
• Edit last week’s short story and submit it.
• Write 10k in my current WIP (currently: 20k out of 60-70k words).
• Write another 10k in my current WIP (get to 40k, else I won’t make it to the end of my WIP by the end of the month).
• Write 2k in WIP2. Currently: 4k out of 60k words.
• Write a short story for #AShortStoryAWeek.

Thank you!

I have a reminder to post a check-in here every week, but I've been making so little progress this month it hardly seems worth it >_<

So, yeah, no progress again. At least I watching the shows are on hold while I watch something else, but I have no excuses for the rest of it. Just a down month for no real reason

I've been working on the fourth chapter, but I had to actually write most of it before I could edit it. It was needed though, after changes to the previous chapter. I finished my website. I finished the draft of my SS story, and I think I'm going to try and make this one work (rather than the other potential one I had). I finished Coraline. I've almost caught up on stories in my inbox (for relative definitions of almost). I picked up a bunch of books at a second hand spot, including the first Sookie Stackhouse, which I've never actually read. So far it's a little ridiculous at times, but fun.

1. Edit one story and two micros. 1/3
2. Edit four chapters UF. 3/4
3. Make substantial progress on agent list. Some.
4. Min 500 words or 2 pages edited each day. Yup.
5. Read one book. 2/1
6. SS(es) Story. Drafted.
7. Create website.

Updates.

• Write a post on Monday, Wednesday and Friday for on this blog. UPDATE: wrote post for Monday and Wednesday
• Edit last week’s short story and submit it.
  [*]Write 10k in my current WIP (currently: 20k out of 60-70k words).
• Write another 10k in my current WIP (get to 40k, else I won’t make it to the end of my WIP by the end of the month). UPDATE: I'm at 32k words now.
• Write 2k in WIP2. Currently: 4k out of 60k words.
• Write a short story for #AShortStoryAWeek.

Another update on the weekly goals:

• Write a post on Monday, Wednesday and Friday for on this blog.
• Edit last week’s short story and submit it.
  [*]Write 10k in my current WIP (currently: 20k out of 60-70k words).
• Write another 10k in my current WIP (get to 40k, else I won’t make it to the end of my WIP by the end of the month).
• Write 2k in WIP2. Currently: 4k out of 60k words.
• Write a short story for #AShortStoryAWeek.

And progress on this month's goals:

- proofread client project BR completed
- proofread client project HC
- proofread client project CJ
- finish all mini-reviews for this month (18 total) completed
- write 13 reviews on blog - 10/13 done
- send out monthly newsletter
- send out weekly newsletter on book review blog - 3/4 done
- write first draft of WIP1 - 7000 words so far of 60000 words (estimated) UPDATE: 42,000 words of 60,000 so far
- write a short story a week - 2/4
- blog three times a week on my author blog, totalling 12 posts - 9/12 done
- write first draft of WIP2 - 0 words of 10,000 (estimated)- update: 4,000 words of 10,000
- proofread client novella

Finished the other micro. I don't think I'll get to the story because my focus is on my SS story plus another one I'm trying to finish for a deadline at the end of next month. I've done a little bit of work on that but not a huge amount. Need to pick a day this week to focus on the agent list. I went through and made some minor changes (I had to change a hair colour and stuff for Reasons) to the finished novel, and found a couple of typos. It's crazy how they slip through even after so many revisions and eyes. I finished that last chapter and I've started the next; maybe I'll finish that one before the end of the month.

I've read a few shorts, but my reading has otherwise lulled again.

I am jealous of all the pictures of snow, but I imagine I would feel otherwise were I in it

1. Edit one story and two micros. 2/3 + drafted a flash
2. Edit four chapters UF. 4/4
3. Make substantial progress on agent list. Some.
4. Min 500 words or 2 pages edited each day. Yup.
5. Read one book. 2/1
6. SS(es) Story. Drafted.
7. Create website.

I finished this month's WIP! I was supposed to reach 40k words this week, but I went on a crazy writing-binge this weekend and ended up with 61229 words, AND "The End" typed underneath.

First draft, of course. Needs at least two rounds of editing. But I'm so happy I reached my goal, and with some time to spare.

Hrm. My progress is still slow, but I got in another episode of Daredevil. I think I only have one left, so I should be able to finish that off my the end of the week, at least

mrsmig said:

This draft is so very rough, but I'm seeing a light at the end of the tunnel. I may not finish by the end of the month, but at least I'm not stalled any more.

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Seeing the end is always a great moment Good job!

Oops, we ran out of January. I ended up reading Sense and Sensibility after watching the 1995 movie. It was good - while I've read it before, it's only been once or maybe twice, unlike Pride and Prejudice, which I know inside out. It meant it had a grippiness to it that was delightful, and I had fun seeing the differences with what they chose to adapt. So three-ish books in the month.

I did miss a day for my minimums, but I did lots of reading on that day instead.

I did an extra chapter. While my SS story is not complete, I did a nice amount of progress on it, and I never intended to get it to final-polished version this month anyway. The biggest problem was I failed at one of the most important parts. I need to start querying soon, and I need the agent list for that. I mean, I see every day that my book will be an instant reject (it has a vampire in the opening chapters. And a new world.) but I still need to query it to get it rejected.

So overall I'm disappointed, even though I otherwise did well this month. I need to prioritise better.

1. Edit one story and two micros. 2/3 + drafted a flash
2. Edit four chapters UF. 5/4
3. Make substantial progress on agent list. Some. Not enough
4. Min 500 words or 2 pages edited each day. Nope.
5. Read one book. 3/1
6. SS(es) Story. Drafted. Preliminary edits complete.
7. Create website.

Tamlyn said:

Oops, we ran out of January.

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That's how I feel, too

Right. I don't think I hit many of my goals this month.

bdwilson said:

• Continue to work on getting writing in earlier in the day
• Plan the revisions to my NaNo project
• Binge watch: Daredevil, Jessica Jones
• Buy/download a video game and actually play it
• Work on shifting wake-up & go-to-sleep times

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I didn't wind up playing the video game I'd intended, but whatever

So... yeah.