October Goals

l. Getting more greeting card sales and hoping for at least one to oatmeal, graphique, etc.
2. Submitting more articles to higher paying markets.
3. Find new article and greeting card markets.

Great goals, April. Bet you'll reach them. Hope I will reach mine too.

Aww, thanks much, April. You too always!

Write 2000+ words a day (M-F) on my WIP for the month of October.

Dang it, folks! September's not even over yet...
I'm still shooting to complete a third of my original six.
Then, I'll worry about October...

I think I might need to start setting up weekly goals on my blog. Maybe then I won't be waiting around until the last week of the month to get serious about my goals.

September's over for me in another five hours...

1. Finish writing those 7 articles in the next five days.
2. Finish worldbuilding and plotting Shards.
3. Finish this draft of Basement of the Universe.

A minimum of 500 words per day until the first draft of The Dragon Stone is completed.

That's really my only goal for next month. If I decide to do NaNo this year I'll also at least make an attempt to sketch out a vague resemblance of a plot and/or world in preparation.

~DragonHeart~

I posted all of my goals over here. It looks like we're all going to have a busy month! Good luck, everyone!

Finish the second draft of DAE and get it typed as a third and final draft, back into manuscript format.

Think of something - anything! - for NaNo. Not a priority for me, but I'd like to do it again if possible.

Send out at least five book proposals for DAE.

Good Lord, is it that time already? I tanked last month so lets see if I can redeem myself:

1) Finish my final draft on Frenzy (I actually cleaned up several chapters but still not 100%)
2) Complete, edit and send off two shorts for publication (I sent out two - one already written, the other was new. Must try to get in two this month.)
3) Read KC's screenplay (I read one of his pieces but not the big one.)
4) Outline and start new novel for a December sub. (Outlining is half complete, then four other novel ideas stole my attention. Damn them!)

Good luck to everuong else, and thanks to Arisa for keeping us on track.

Pike

Goals for October:

1. Send the Short Story out already!
2. Finish the second part of the WIP. (about 14k words).


Good luck everybody!
Rose

1. Land that agent!
2. Finish 1st draft of Nimble.
3. Finish plotting KoIS in type for NaNo.

Shady plotted it out so nicely, so I'll use the same method.

1. Finish final revisions
2. Send off first wave of queries by the 5th
3. Keep my sanity
4. Finish plotting out NaNo Nikoli novel

Here we go.

1. Finish 3rd edit of LC.
2. Rewrite beginning of LC and rearrange ending scenes.
3. Finish 1st draft of Blue.
4. Ponder ST.

Polish short story #1 again. Submit to new markets.
Finish short story #2. PICK A FREAKIN TITLE ALREADY. Submit.
Get cracking on novel--500 words/day

Maryn said:

It's a matter of gathering courage, and yes, Gray Rose, you helped, even though you never saw the manuscript or the query. Thanks!

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You're welcome, sweetie, and you know I'd love to read the manuscript

I'm going to play the game of fives (I made it up). Five things, and I'll do five of each.

So.

I'm aiming to write 5 chapters, 5 articles/essays, make 5 sales, apply for 5 grants, and come up with and pitch 5 ideas.

Esopha said:

Here we go.

1. Finish 3rd edit of LC.
2. Rewrite beginning of LC and rearrange ending scenes.
3. Finish 1st draft of Blue.
4. Ponder ST.

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I should probably add, "Write Evil Lord Freeducker story."

As we learned in parenting class, since I didn't complete all of my goals last month, I'm going to ease up on them to the point where I feel I can get them completed...

October Goals:

1. Complete the final draft for my new short story, "Little White Truths"
2. Finish the plot outline for Death Brings the Victory
3. Edit two chapters of Death Brings the Victory
4. Complete the first draft of four chapters of Death Brings the Victory
5. Submit "Misery in Wallowing" to three e-zines.

I'm usually pretty productive around this time of year. I hope I didn't just jinx myself by writing that.

1. Get to the halfway point on draft 3 of my YA novel -- approx. 30,000 words.

1a. Read out loud and/or send via e-mail the 1st three chapters to a few trusted people and make sure the characters, the premise, etc. are coming through clearly.

2. Update my Livejournal at least twice a week.

3. Write a letter to an author whose work I like. I've never done this!

4. Finish rewrite of short story and submit it to one lit journal.

5. Help my husband outline his first NaNoWriMo novel! (We're both really excited that he's going to take part this year.)

October Goals:
1. Receive feedback from beta readers (hahaha, ok I know this isn't dependent on me, but I can dream, right?).
2. Get to at least Chapter 10 on book #2. (write at least 600 words/day)
3. Polish query letter and synopsis.
4. Finish second potential cover art painting.