MayNoWriMo!

Whoa, eternalised, that's such impressive progress! And glad things are still progressing steadily, mrsmig and Cliff Face!

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1. Finish the 4th major rewrite of my giant-robots-and-monsters story. 88%, and into the heavy rewrites of the end now. I thought it would be terrifying and it kinda is, but it's mostly a great, relieved feeling. Also, I spent a day sorting out all the various synopses and cover letters needed for UK agent hunting, which was tricky but rewarding.
2. Steel my nerve, tidy up a few final things, and send it out to beta readers. Put the word out yesterday and got some absolutely lovely people on stand-by!
3. Start working on my fun LGBT urban fantasy with demon ladies and geeky witches. 20403 / 60000

I'm on the final scene of draft two. WIP isn't ready for beta-readers yet, but all major revisions are done. Time to break out the polish!

Dear Jebus, Eternalised, I simply cannot believe how productive you always are! What's your secret? Is it coffee? I hope it's coffee, because I like coffee.

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Haha! Thank you. Well, it's not coffee, I actually don't drink coffee. Now I'm wondering how much more productive I'd be if I actually drank coffee, heh!

I wrote a feature-length screenplay this month. On the short side - it clocked in @ 17.9k words.
Now I need to write a personal statement, & submit. I have a deadline of 5p on Mon, June 1.

I added to my small projects (short stories - writing a total of about ... 2000w?) - but stopped work on those when the script became very challenging.

In June I need to get back to real life so I expect to be capable only of much smaller word counts.

I've finished rewrites on the next book in my series, which is HUGE for me. I've been putting it off for about a year while I wrote some YA novels, did the agent search thing, etc. I've been busy, but really needed to get to work on this. So I'm satisfied with my May goals, even though I didn't get half of them done. Onwards to June!

@Lena Hillbrand - yay for rewrites! If you're satisfied, it doesn't matter if you didn't reach all your goals!

@Layla Nahar - yay for screenplay! I wrote a screenplay once. It was pretty terrible; much respect for those who can manage them.

@everyone else - yay in general!


1. Edit four chapters UF. 6/4
2. Edit (finish editing) and actually submit two stories. 2/2 + a bunch of micros
3. Finish Contemp Romance. Finished
4. Read 6 books. 4/6
5. 500 words or 2 pages min/day So far so good

It's close enough to the end of the month for me to know I'm not going to get anything more finished. I will get that reading goal one day. I will.

I also started editing the next chapter plus another story. Overall, reading aside, I'm really happy with the month. For me, it's been very productive, despite being sick (again. One day I will stop being sick, I swear).

Final check-in:

*Keep up with schoolwork (duh) yup
*Start on some of my study abroad prep work to get it out of the way before leaving in July uh... Started... Yeah...
*Finish filling out my grad school comparison spreadsheet made progress but nope
*Read 5 books lost track... I think so...
*Write 5k of not school-related stuff nope
*Complete 5 DayZero goals seven!
*Not die running 5k next Saturday
*Do something fun yep

You know, every month I look back at what I did all month and my thoughts are always something along the lines of "...what the fuck just happened?" I think the pure randomness of situations in the middle of the month seem to distort how I see the rest of the month, and in the end it's just a giant clusterfuck of "how did I even manage to get anything DONE?!"

Time for June! (fuck, is it really?)

~Amber~

Book isn't technically finished, as I'm having difficulty deciding on one of two FINAL final scenes (like 5 pages max). I might write both and see which one I like better.

Word count is 101,198. I wrote 18776 for the month.

1. Finish the 4th major rewrite of my giant-robots-and-monsters story. I did it. Holy hell, that was exhausting, but so very very worth it. I wrote a retrospective about it.
2. Steel my nerve, tidy up a few final things, and send it out to beta readers. DONE AND DONE AND DOOONEEEE.
3. Start working on my fun LGBT urban fantasy with demon ladies and geeky witches. 20403 / 60000 Didn't get to this goal this month, but hey, that's what June's for.

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• Complete Camp Nano MS Done!
• Apply SK edits CH 3-7 Done!
• Crit Beta Project opens Done!
• Finalize SK query Actually moving in the wrong direction
• Find 10 Agents to sub to and make a big old list 3/10

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At some point I'd added a little crit project to this list, but I can't find that post, so oh well. One more thing done.

Now that I'm on to query tweaks, I want to go back and do the whole thing over again. This new month (June, I mean) was the target for sending out my first query on SK, considering it's out to beta again, I'm really worried about that.

I COULD send out a test query to an agent just to get over the hump, I guess...

I am one day in and June looks scary. I don't think I want June.

Also, EMaree, as a fellow metrics-lover, I totally love all your tracking systems in your blog post!

Congratulations on nearly being done Draft #3, mrsmig! Almost at the finish line!

CoffeeBeans, congratulations on finishing your CampNaNo MS, edits, and crits.

And thanks! I'm definitely a stats junkie, I love my spreadsheets. It's really nice to be able to look back through year and see my progress laid out in wordcounts and pages edited. A lot of the time it doesn't feel like I'm working hard enough or fast enough, because I'm bad for comparing myself to others, but I can look back at the stats and find out that I've been working much harder than I thought. A big confidence boost.

So many excellent check-ins. Good job

My month was a bust, so... Moving on!