Ready, Set, Write!! ~12~

Everything looks fine to me, Dream.

Margaret 

Dream,

I have to report that I didn't make my goal, so I have to set a new one. My new goal is to have my proposal done by Nov. 15. I'm in the middle of getting ready for my daughter's wedding--9 days and counting. Since we're having the reception in our yard, I'm busy doing yard work. In between the wedding planning, I've been driving my mother-in-law back and forth to doctors. So my goal plans  were completely shot.

Merrillee

Hope,

I do the same thing, read back a chapter or two. I edit as I write. I usually start writing by reading back over what I wrote the day before. It helps me get back into the story.

Way to go on finishing. Maybe I'll see it in hte store one day soon!

My books are a long time in coming!

The site looks nice!

 Goal, I want to finish Shadows by the end of the year (uh, I've been threatened but we won't say who threatened me. Unless she wants to admit it.

I'm also doing Nano this year. So far I've only gotten 1712 words, but that's a start. I can work with that. So for Echoes I need 50,000 words by the end of November.

 Think that will keep me busy for a few days.

Thanks, ladies!

Pammer, glad to see you here setting goals!

Beckie, just keep plugging away.  One sentence you write today will be one sentence more than you had yesterday! 

Margaret, it was tough.  If I hadn't had a few plot points tucked away to consult, I don't know whether I could have done it.  As it is, I prayed a lot.  Now with NaNo, I'm so burned out, I haven't made the 1667-a-day goal yet, but I'm playing catch up.  I've done 853, 257, 1705, and so far today, 1052, but I left off in the middle of a sentence and I should finish it.    I don't ever want to have to cram everything into a couple of days again, Lord willing!

Brenda, you are so right!  Yes, I need to go through that waiting, play-the-guitar-instead-of-biting-fingernails time again.  Only this time, I hope I have a happier response!  (I sent the other novel out before it was really ready.  I'd done major surgery on it, chopping it from 94K to 60K to fit the line--a mistake I won't repeat.  The poor thing really was still bleeding and needing time to heal, but I'd had a request for a partial & five, so I wanted to get it there while the editor still remembered!)  I'm planning to do nothing but revise in December, Lord willing, and maybe if I can get to where I'm meeting my NaNo goals daily, I can even work on those revisions during this month! 

New goals:

• NaNo 50K by November 30th, working title The Commune (although I already have another title I like better)
• Desert Dreamer revisions and submission by Jan. 31st (I'd make it sooner, but I don't want it lost in the Christmas rush)
• Chick lit read-through, revisions, and submission by --- Hmmm.  I don't want to have 2 books here at the same time, even with different editors. That's not considered good etiquette.  Let's see, why don't I change this to:
• Chick lit revisions by March 1st. 

As usual, if I become overwhelmed with a sudden influx of other things that must be done, I reserve the right to change my goal dates! 

Thanks for getting me back in line! 

Pammer, it's good to see you here. You go, girl, with that book.

Margaret