Ambitious August - 500 words a day writing/editing - all genres welcome

I'm ambitious! How about you?

How did July go? Did you meet your goals? Run into roadblocks? Get sidetracked by something delightful? Share and Enjoy.

What's up for August? How can we help?

Go, team!

I had to go back and check what my July goals were.

Turns out I batted about .333. I finished the draft of WIP #1, yay! But I didn't really get anywhere with WIP #2, although I thought about it a lot, and occasionally visited when I was feeling lonely for my old friends.

As for being more cheerful? ...Yeah.

August I'm going to focus in WIP #1. This edit is taking longer than I thought it would - for good reasons; I think the changes are good ones - and I don't think at this stage I want to distract myself with another WIP. If all goes well, I should be able to get back to #2 sometime in September.

Of course, there was also that bit of short story I started. I have an opener and a closer. I reserve the right to write the middle at some point if the mood strikes.

Let's go, August!

Today was Brainstorming Without Words day. Worked out some bits I had to work out, which was good; but no words, which always makes me feel antsy and incompetent.

Tomorrow: Tweak the synopsis and get moving again.

Those sound like good goals, Saoirse. I will especially cross my fingers for you job-wise.

osg! Cheering is wonderful!

Today I updated my synopsis and made a rough outline of the next section of the book. Trashed some chapters, then untrashed them, then started doing some edits, then decided I was burned out for the day and hung it up. I feel a bit more solid about where I'm going, at least, but still: UGH. This is a difficult book.

M Louise - sometimes doing something different is really restorative.

mccardey! Best of luck on the finishing.

I didn't get through more pages today, but I did some close edits of some of the restructured stuff, so I'll count it as progress.

And I will ignore the fact that the last 3 days (maybe more!) I've been reporting exactly the same thing.

Go, everybody!

Excellent words, Saoirse and M Louise!

Oh, hey, new stuff today! And I'm not entirely unhappy with it. Next step: Nuke about 15K words and write some different ones. I suspect the new text will be between 6 and 8K, so I'll be restraining the word count a bit.

And I can officially call it 123/366 pages edited.

Well done, muse! Welcome to August.

I wrote another chapter today and merged it with the digested remains of another. I have anywhere from 2 to 5 new chapters to write until I get to the next fixed bit of the story, and they'll replace 15K words, so my word count should drop a bit.

I wrote NOTHING today. I have some events that need to happen, and I'm still puzzling out order and setting.

IOW, I don't know where to start the next chapter. Maybe a good night's sleep will inspire me.

Svader! We're rooting for you!

Wrote a rather difficult chapter today - a few smaller bits of things that needed to happen, but needed to be knit together into a single scene. Think it works OK, but it'll need a wallop on the next pass to clean it up.

I've got maybe another 3 chapters before I meet up with the Known Bits again. Will try to get through that over the next couple of days.

Well done on the words, Saoirse, and best of luck with the transition.

Great word count, Svader!

I wrote a chapter and a bit today. I have to finish that chapter and write one more, and THEN I think I can go back to normal edits for a while.

Well done, Svader, especially on top of no sleep! I hope today went well.

Yay for newish stories, M Louise!

Scrivener tells me I wrote 4,120 new words today, and I don't know if I believe it, but I have reached the point where I'm back to editing instead of rewriting. YAY! I also shaved about 5K off the total word count - I'm currently at 110K. There's another passage later on that's going to need retooling, though, so I'm not sure how long that count will hold (or if it'll get smaller or larger).

Go, everybody!