Well I've been doing terrible at National Novel Writing Month this year. Why? Life has been busy.
At the end of October, from the 30th to November 1, there was Can-Con. I successfully pitched my novel to one of the publishers, then spent two days touching up my manuscript before submitting it. I had gotten some outside feedback at Can-Con and wanted to apply it. So that took me to November 4th as a start date. Then I had to spend some time ensuring I had food to eat at the Iaido seminar on the 7th. The 6th and 8th were partially lost to travel. I didn't get much writing done in the first week.
In week two when I could get some time to write, I was facing the challenges of full-time work, writing course, plus social life. I was also facing a challenge of, "Man, it's been so long since I looked at this manuscript. What's it about again?" Also, I had updated my Scrivener to the newest version and it moved some of the text files around, so I had to reorganize and read to figure out what I had already written and what needed to happen in the story.
Week three had me facing a bladder/urinary tract infection. The antibiotics quickly cleared that up, but not without other issues. I was nauseous, lightheaded, dizzy, light sensitive, sinus headache, fevered/chilled... It was fantastic.
Somehow I was able to write 1,019 words on one of the days despite how ill I felt? That's the only day I've written over 1000 words.
So as we head into week four, I have 5555 new words written on Scion. I have martial arts tonight, food allergy treatment tomorrow, and physio on Friday.
There are only a couple martial arts classes left before grading. It's likely best I spend my free time on that if I want to pass it.
On the upside, the writing course is done and I received interesting and helpful feedback from the other students on several of my stories.
I've been terrible at ROW80 for this round. I'm posting a day early, because.
Next month should be a little better for getting my writing in. Not that I'm going to stop working on Scion. I'll just stop feeling bad about not being up to Nano word count. And when I'm stuck, I'll work on edits for The Blood Waitress Club. Whichever one is ready first will be my next pitch.
Goals for the Rest of the Round
Scion: 250 words/day
The Blood Waitress Club: 1 chapter/week
Ciao,
R~
At the end of October, from the 30th to November 1, there was Can-Con. I successfully pitched my novel to one of the publishers, then spent two days touching up my manuscript before submitting it. I had gotten some outside feedback at Can-Con and wanted to apply it. So that took me to November 4th as a start date. Then I had to spend some time ensuring I had food to eat at the Iaido seminar on the 7th. The 6th and 8th were partially lost to travel. I didn't get much writing done in the first week.
In week two when I could get some time to write, I was facing the challenges of full-time work, writing course, plus social life. I was also facing a challenge of, "Man, it's been so long since I looked at this manuscript. What's it about again?" Also, I had updated my Scrivener to the newest version and it moved some of the text files around, so I had to reorganize and read to figure out what I had already written and what needed to happen in the story.
Week three had me facing a bladder/urinary tract infection. The antibiotics quickly cleared that up, but not without other issues. I was nauseous, lightheaded, dizzy, light sensitive, sinus headache, fevered/chilled... It was fantastic.
Somehow I was able to write 1,019 words on one of the days despite how ill I felt? That's the only day I've written over 1000 words.
So as we head into week four, I have 5555 new words written on Scion. I have martial arts tonight, food allergy treatment tomorrow, and physio on Friday.
There are only a couple martial arts classes left before grading. It's likely best I spend my free time on that if I want to pass it.
On the upside, the writing course is done and I received interesting and helpful feedback from the other students on several of my stories.
I've been terrible at ROW80 for this round. I'm posting a day early, because.
Next month should be a little better for getting my writing in. Not that I'm going to stop working on Scion. I'll just stop feeling bad about not being up to Nano word count. And when I'm stuck, I'll work on edits for The Blood Waitress Club. Whichever one is ready first will be my next pitch.
Goals for the Rest of the Round
Scion: 250 words/day
The Blood Waitress Club: 1 chapter/week
Ciao,
R~