Hi kids.
Remember our July 1 writing goals?
I'm checking in because we have 5 more days.
Report, please. Who's on track?
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- moonrat
- I'm a recovering editorial assistant. I'm like most of my kind: impoverished coffee-and-gin survivalists, underpaid but ambitious, bitter but hopeful. Painfully self-conscious, woefully self-congratulatory, willfully self-indulgent. Yes, I'm white, but I'm trying to get over it. Accurate spelling (to the dismay of my boss) is not among my interests. So read forgivingly.
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12 comments:
Moonie,
I have done very well. I've written 11 poems, which exceeds my goal by 1... new goal, 15 by July
1st. They are all pretty rough and will need revision, but the point is to get the story down first... and that I feel very good about. How are you doing?
Guadalupe
Not on track at all. Further than last time, but still not far enough. I have a four day weekend coming up, so maybe by the first.
I'm 152 pages in, probably have another 30-40 to go. If I tap it out in 3-point type so I can't edit as I go, I think I can make it...
Thanks for keeping us on track!
I've finished my first to be published book again. Does that count? As for being on track... I'm travelling in circles... (see my blog for the true story behind my publication deal! I have to say, I've loved every minute of the ride.)
I hope everyone is on track. I haven't even written this month. I shall get busy with it shortly, though, as I post to my critique group in a week.
I'm still painting the stupid kitchen and doing other house projects.
{precie hides in the corner}
um...well, aside from blogging and my guest spot here, I haven't written at all.
but i'll change that today. or tomorrow...
Moonie, it did not escape at least one reader's eye that while you asked for everyone else's progress report, you haven't provided your own -- yet, one assumes!
Ahem.
Right.
I... am going to take some @$$-kicking, but I'm going to do it. I'll be there, with the banners flying.
:)
My first proposal went down in flames at the midway point, so I'm 'rebooting' and starting a new one. I have a good, detailed synopsis, and now I need to write the first 50 pages. I don't think I'll get done with the entire thing before the July 1 deadline, but I'll be happy to have the first 20 pages completed.
So not a total loss, but not where I wanted to be, either. :)
I missed the goal setting, but I did have a goal to finish edits and have my ms to beta readers July first.
I'm actually ahead! My betas got it last Friday and I'm working on a new idea while I wait.
Finished, as of two days ago.
I still can't believe I did it.
Can we have a do-over?
:-)
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