October was okay - I finished my third edit of Paroxysm (my WIP) and am about 1/4 way through my fourth edit. The word count still isn't coming down as much as I would like (although it is down to 320k from 423k). My progress has been hampered because there is still lots to do in our new house, my job continues to consume my daylight hours. I am coaching 15 people for a fight night (boxing) on the 16th, that, combined with my own training, is accounting for most of my evenings.
I'm still optimistic that I can get beyond the 2/3s point of this edit by the end of November and I am hoping that the 4th edit will be finished by the end of the year and I can get on with my next project.
I've held off on my beta reader until I've finished the forth edit, partly because I chickened out, but also because he's going to visit his daughter in France over Xmas and so will have more time for reading then (at least that's what I'm telling myself!)
Good luck to everyone - your goals, sound ambitious, but you've got to aim big (rather than what I do in target shooting, which is to fire, and then declare that whatever I hit as the target
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