batyler65
Welcome to a brand new year, Weekenders! I thought we'd all start off with a clean slate. For any newcomers, if you want to know how this whole mess started -- it started with a New Year's Resolution in 2004 when I vowed to complete a Horrible Novel in four months and wanted a way to keep myself accountable.
The good news? Thanks to WPR and nudges from the people here, I wrote that horrible novel between January and April. All 77k words of it. The bad news? Now I've got to make it LESS horrible. My writing group has more faith in me than I do, but together we might get through the second draft.
So, now it is 2005. Time for new goals, new nudges and a bit of whip-cracking fun. Many of you have already listed your goals for the new year. I'm a bit behind, but I'll post mine now.
Starting in February, I will be writing a YA Fantasy novel (with much more humor than the first novel possesses, thank goodness!) I plan to have that novel drafted by the end of April (cross your fingers).
I also intend to get back into writing a humor column once per week and subbing to FC once per month. This is going to be interesting. I still have the humor column every month at the local magazine so I'll be doing that, too.
I'd like to find a home for my children's puzzle book, so I hope to do some serious marketing on it soon.
It's been a long week. I had five deadlines this week on the heels of a month of holiday company. For those of you who don't know, my working conditions are less than ideal. My home office is currently in my dining room (there is no dining room in my dining room, just office) which is in the center of my house and has no door. This means during the holidays not much work was getting done due to the wandering holiday nomads who periodically traipsed through my space and interrupted my train of thought. Now all the guests have gone. The kids are back in school and the husband has recovered from a near-bout of pneumonia (did I mention that?). I am closing in on the last two of the deadlines this morning and hope to have them sent off by noon. At that point I am collapsing and won't be seen again until Monday. I will love this come payday, but right now, Oy!
So how are you guys and gals progressing with your goals?
ROLL CALL!
Ruth? You getting anything written? I know you are busy. But trust me, you will ALWAYS be busy. Make ten minutes a day. MAKE THEM. You would make them for your kids. Make them for yourself.
Ally: Hey Girl! You have been doing so great! Keep up the good work and let us know what is going on this week.
Frank: Um... haven't heard anything about the new book in awhile. Whassup?
Mac: Okay, you like to wield the whip, but I think it is only so you don't have to tell us anything about your writing. Get with it, gal! I want a report. Don't make me come out there.
Lori: Same spiel as above. What's going on? And I don't want to know why my whip has spinach dip on it. Just don't tell me.
Ray: I know you have had a rough start to the new year. I'm hoping it hasn't stalled you out in your tracks. How's the writing going?
CC: You seem to be making excellent progress on FATL. What have you done to make the rest of us look bad this week?
Mike: You are also on my list of overachievers for 2005. Don't let me down, okay?
Nita: Okay, am I the only one to notice that you only post when I'm gone? I'm starting to get a complex. Tell me about your writing week. Please? Pretty please?
Melina: Okay, girl. Are you off and running on that goal? Can I go on vacation with you? Heck, I could just house sit while you are on vacation.
Cate: You go for it, Cate. I can see you listed on that masthead as a contributing EDITOR one day. Keep your eye on the prize.
Jen: Hullo? Hullo? Testing.... testing... is this thing on?
Rich: Get serious, dude. What are you going to accomplish this year?
Cindy: Welcome to the nuthouse. We are all pretty friendly here... unless you stop writing... or refuse to report in once you've made your presence known... or try to take away Bud's pudding (He's my muse and he has some strange ideas about pudding, don't ask.). Folks often refer to Hotel California when newcomers poke their heads up. Pay no attention to them. You can leave whenever you darn well please. 'course, we might have to hunt you down... but that's another story. AHEM. How did your writing go this week?
Renee: Oh Miss QT. Tell me something good. Tell me something bad. Tell me something JUICY. What is new in your writing world?
Your turn weekenders. Do me proud.
Barb
The good news? Thanks to WPR and nudges from the people here, I wrote that horrible novel between January and April. All 77k words of it. The bad news? Now I've got to make it LESS horrible. My writing group has more faith in me than I do, but together we might get through the second draft.
So, now it is 2005. Time for new goals, new nudges and a bit of whip-cracking fun. Many of you have already listed your goals for the new year. I'm a bit behind, but I'll post mine now.
Starting in February, I will be writing a YA Fantasy novel (with much more humor than the first novel possesses, thank goodness!) I plan to have that novel drafted by the end of April (cross your fingers).
I also intend to get back into writing a humor column once per week and subbing to FC once per month. This is going to be interesting. I still have the humor column every month at the local magazine so I'll be doing that, too.
I'd like to find a home for my children's puzzle book, so I hope to do some serious marketing on it soon.
It's been a long week. I had five deadlines this week on the heels of a month of holiday company. For those of you who don't know, my working conditions are less than ideal. My home office is currently in my dining room (there is no dining room in my dining room, just office) which is in the center of my house and has no door. This means during the holidays not much work was getting done due to the wandering holiday nomads who periodically traipsed through my space and interrupted my train of thought. Now all the guests have gone. The kids are back in school and the husband has recovered from a near-bout of pneumonia (did I mention that?). I am closing in on the last two of the deadlines this morning and hope to have them sent off by noon. At that point I am collapsing and won't be seen again until Monday. I will love this come payday, but right now, Oy!
So how are you guys and gals progressing with your goals?
ROLL CALL!
Ruth? You getting anything written? I know you are busy. But trust me, you will ALWAYS be busy. Make ten minutes a day. MAKE THEM. You would make them for your kids. Make them for yourself.
Ally: Hey Girl! You have been doing so great! Keep up the good work and let us know what is going on this week.
Frank: Um... haven't heard anything about the new book in awhile. Whassup?
Mac: Okay, you like to wield the whip, but I think it is only so you don't have to tell us anything about your writing. Get with it, gal! I want a report. Don't make me come out there.
Lori: Same spiel as above. What's going on? And I don't want to know why my whip has spinach dip on it. Just don't tell me.
Ray: I know you have had a rough start to the new year. I'm hoping it hasn't stalled you out in your tracks. How's the writing going?
CC: You seem to be making excellent progress on FATL. What have you done to make the rest of us look bad this week?
Mike: You are also on my list of overachievers for 2005. Don't let me down, okay?
Nita: Okay, am I the only one to notice that you only post when I'm gone? I'm starting to get a complex. Tell me about your writing week. Please? Pretty please?
Melina: Okay, girl. Are you off and running on that goal? Can I go on vacation with you? Heck, I could just house sit while you are on vacation.
Cate: You go for it, Cate. I can see you listed on that masthead as a contributing EDITOR one day. Keep your eye on the prize.
Jen: Hullo? Hullo? Testing.... testing... is this thing on?
Rich: Get serious, dude. What are you going to accomplish this year?
Cindy: Welcome to the nuthouse. We are all pretty friendly here... unless you stop writing... or refuse to report in once you've made your presence known... or try to take away Bud's pudding (He's my muse and he has some strange ideas about pudding, don't ask.). Folks often refer to Hotel California when newcomers poke their heads up. Pay no attention to them. You can leave whenever you darn well please. 'course, we might have to hunt you down... but that's another story. AHEM. How did your writing go this week?
Renee: Oh Miss QT. Tell me something good. Tell me something bad. Tell me something JUICY. What is new in your writing world?
Your turn weekenders. Do me proud.
Barb