Hello friends! It’s ROW80 update time. The last update of the round. This post was supposed to go up on Thursday (or Wednesday?), but I had one too many posts scheduled for this week, so this is going up today, Sunday.
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My goals for the last week and how it went:
- Writing: revise the novella (HAHP). There was no school Monday and Tuesday so my daughter stayed home, which means I got nothing done. Then, the other days, I did revise HAHP and worked on my CP’s manuscript.
- Reading: finish book #53, read book #54, read a prologue from a friend, and at least half of a friend’s ms (I have to critique it too). I’ve read book #53, book #54, read the prologues and critiqued half my CP’s manuscript.
- Social media: blog at least twice and hop on Twitter from time to time. Done.
- Exercise: 4x at least. Six times.
ROUND 03 (July 2nd to Sept 20th) achievements and thoughts:
I feel like I didn’t do much, but I know I did. It just seems that, if I don’t add words and finish manuscripts, it really isn’t progress …
– I revised a novelette and send it out for a publisher.
– I got two publishing contracts—a novelette out in Dec, and a novel out in August.
– I wrote a short story that is up online for a very awesome contest. Winners will be announced next month.
– I revised an entire manuscript, then decided to shelf it for a bit. I realized I need to rewrite the whole thing but I need some time from it first.
– I revised half of another manuscript and sent it out for the first critique. Got it back two days ago and I’m still disgusting all comments. Quite a bit …
– I revised a novella.
– Worked on pre-edits of the novelette with my editor (the one that will be out in December), and received last night the next edits.
All I see is revising and gosh do I hate revising! But it’s a necessary evil. I wish I learned how to like it, at least a tiny bit, so it would be easier on me. Perhaps with time and practice … One can only hope ;)
Overall, a good round.
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Have a great week, everyone!
Cheers,
I’d have to say you had an incredibly successful eighty days.
I think you had a great round! This goal in particular–“two publishing contracts—a novelette out in Dec, and a novel out in August”–is worth a high-five and some confetti! Congrats and see you in Round 4!
I agree with Alex and Julie. Sounds to me like you got a lot done, and made a ton of progress on your writing career. Two publishing contracts! That’s amazing. :)
You got so much done this round, that’s awesome :) Congrats again on the publishing contracts! See you during the next round?