Juliana Haygert

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ROW80 Check-in Wed 10/26

 

I have news …

My manuscript, Destiny Gift, the one which has 2 fulls out, was selected as one of the 5 finalists in the Show Me The Spark contest organized by the Heartland Romance Authors! Woot!

A feature of the contest is that they send you the MS back after they’ve chosen the finalists with many comments done by the judges … they give you a week to go through it and revise your work. At the end of the week (this upcoming Sunday) I have to send my MS back to them or they will use the un-revised version for the finals. And, on December 23rd, they will announce the winner ;)

So, this week, I’ll pause my writing schedule to work on my Destiny Gift manuscript until I feel it’s good enough to send it back.

 

Recap of goals:

  • Write at least 2k words from Mon to Fri, when I’m not editing (Sat and Sun are reserved for family!)
  • Finish the MS I’m writing (for now, I call it Attitude) (*)
  • Edit Attitude (*)
  • Outline a novel for NaNoWriMo (called Energy)
  • Participate on NaNoWriMo
  • Read 2 books every 3 weeks
  • Blog at least once per week (besides the #ROW80 check-ins)
  • Comment on #ROW80 friends’ blogs

The ones marked with a (*) are completed.

 

About my leg/foot/knee thing. I did the Electroneumyography test last Friday and the cyst behind my knee is the one compressing my nerves. So the foot specialist said he wants to try solving this without surgery, just by taking some specific vitamins, but he would talk with his colleague, a knee specialist and he would call me and let me know what the other doctor said.

On Monday, the foot specialist called saying that, accordingly to the knee specialist, most of cyst cases need to be dealt with surgery. So, he asked a MRI of my knee to see what exactly is going on around the cyst … then I’ll have to see the knee specialist and determine what we’ll do …

Now, I’m trying to schedule a MRI, but it seems it won’t happen before the end of next week … oh, the joys of waiting …

Anyway, I’ll let you all informed about this, but let’s move on to what really matters: my goals.

 

Networking

All done … this is hard NOT to meet …

 

Reading

Since last Wednesday, I finished Dark Lover by JR Ward and Angel’s Desire by Rosalie Lario. I also finished How To Write Page Turning Scenes by Holly Lisle and No Plot? No Problem by Chris Baty, the founder of NaNoWriMo. Note: the last 3 books are short, more like novella length.

Last night I began The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong.

 

Writing

Monday: Worked on the plot of Energy (needed time to process all the judges’ comments on Destiny Gift) and read craft books.

Tuesday: read on craft and worked on revising Destiny Gift (not as easy I would like it to be—the judges had very different opinions and Idk what to do with myself lol).

Wednesday: doing both … working on plot for Energy and revising Destiny Gift.

 

As check-in goes, I’m thinking about two possibilities: 1) I’ll skip Sunday check-ins unless I have worked during the weekend, which doesn’t happen often … so my week for ROW80 would run from Thu to Wed … or 2) I’ll do like Raelyn said she does on a previous post: I’ll skip Wednesday check-ins and schedule my Sunday check-in on Friday nights. So my week would run from Sat to Fri. Let’s see … I’ll keep you all informed.

 

How are my ROW80 friends doing? Wishing you all luck and accomplishments!

Here you can check the other participants. Go cheer for them too!

Have a great rest of week!

 

Cheers,

Comments

  1. Wow!!! That’s great news on you MS, Juliana. We’re all rooting for you. Woot Woot!!! Great job on your goals, too. You’re definitely Rocking The ROW!!! Keep it going and good luck with the contest. ~clink~

  2. Awesome news on the MS! Congrats – will keep my fingers crossed. And good job on the other goals as well. Hoping your knee woes improve soon. Sounds like they are slowly getting to the bottom of things.

  3. Brilliant news about your MS and I hope this week goes brilliantly. It must be daunting but so useful to get comments back from the judges!

    Glad you stopped by the Fun not Fear support group, look forward to getting to know you better as we sprint/crawl/cry/scream our way through NaNo!

  8. Congrats on being a finalist. That’s awesome news.

    I love the checkins keeping me accountable and connecting me with other people. But I figure wghen you are able is what we should do.

    • Checkins are really great because we really don’t want to post nothing and be embarrassed before our friends … except, of course, when you’re sick or something lol ;)

  10. Wow! Congrats on the Destiny Gift. That is exciting. You’ll do great. Sounds like you are doing very well. Keep up the good work and have fun with that WIP. Take care :)

  11. Congratulations on your achievement with your manuscript, that is great – you must be super psyched! Good luck with the revising and I hope you win. Keep on ROWing!

    Kevin

  14. Congrats on your goals and look forward to seeing you during November for NaNoWriMo! I’m signed up (at the Fun Not Fear too so I can stay sane throughout this experience!) and almost ready…kinda. And omg congrats on your manuscript!! I’ll be keeping fingers crossed that you win!

  15. Juliana, congrats on the contest news! I am so very excited for you. Good luck on finishing up your edits. :D

    With NaNo around the corner, I’m thinking about scaling back the frequency of my ROW80 posts. I think I’ll probably aim for Sunday-only posts, which works for me; I feel like I never really have much to report on Wednesdays anyway, since I spend Mondays and Tuesdays swamped with schoolwork.

    Take it easy, and I hope the problem with your knee can be resolved soon!