Back on June 15th my writers group set goals of what we’d like to accomplish by the end of the year. Now that we’re halfway there I thought it would be a good time to remind myself what those goals were and check in on my progress. June 15th Goals for Year End 1. Finish [...]
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Looking in on my year end goals
Posted in Current Progress, Goals, Nanowrimo, tagged current progress, current projects, Goals, Nanowrimo, revising goals, six month goals, wordcount, writing, year end goals on September 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
How I Became an Outline Convert
Posted in Current Progress, On Writing, Research, Work In Progress, tagged conversion, novel, Outlining, preparing to write, reflection, writing, writing tools on September 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I have always been a pantser. When I get an idea it generally has an opening scene and one or more great characters. The story flows naturally from there. At most I would jot down the major points and a few scenes ahead but I figured the story might shift drastically so I thought that [...]
The Impossible Goal
Posted in Current Progress, Goals, On Writing, tagged impossible goals, reflection, writing on August 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In the wake of finishing my WIP first draft I was high on the rush of accomplishment. It felt great (to be honest it still does) and that first burst led me to set some lofty goals. The July novel. The plan was to write roughly twice what is required by Nanowrimo but in half [...]
July Heat
Posted in Current Progress, Work In Progress, tagged character building, current projects, expendable characters, July Novel, writing, YA on July 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It’s currently 29 degrees celsius (about 84.2 F) in my apartment and worse in the computer room. Those puppies do crank out the heat! I’ve told myself I won’t turn on the air conditioning until it hits 30 to conserve hydro. Since the heat has both myself and the cat doing nothing except lounging uncomfortably [...]
Words words words!
Posted in Current Progress, Work In Progress, tagged first draft, Goals, novel, work in progress, writing on May 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve set very lofty goals in writers group the last two weeks and so far it has been excellent. Ok, so I didn’t actually meet the first goal and I may not meet this week’s goal but what I have done is write consistently and long. It’s paying off too. The end of my novel [...]
A Goal with an End in Sight
Posted in Scriptfrenzy, Word Count, Work In Progress, tagged current projects, Goals, no apologies, Scriptfrenzy, wordcount, writing on April 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
April has been an interesting month. I began it with the best intentions of completing Scriptfrenzy but in the end I didn’t, or won’t by tomorrow night anyway. On three occasions I sat down to begin writing one of my short film scripts and three times I ended up writing a completely unrelated short story. [...]
Mini-update
Posted in Current Progress, Scriptfrenzy, Word Count, tagged flash fiction, Goals, multitasking, novel, philosophy, script writing, Scriptfrenzy, today's progress, wordcount, writing on March 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been working on a full update of all of my creative goals but it’s actually a bit daunting to sort it all out. I have so many interests that at times I get bogged down and nothing gets done on any of them. So I’m going to use the goals update to really look [...]
Shaking It Up
Posted in Current Progress, Goals, Scriptfrenzy, tagged blog format, book reviews, Goals, multitasking, script writing, Scriptfrenzy on March 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
So far this blog has been primarily used for writing updates because I am working on my skills as a writer. Word count updates have proved a challenge to do in a way that’s interesting. So, though I will continue to do updates about my goals, progress and achievements as a writer, I will also [...]
Nano Win!
Posted in Current Progress, Nanowrimo, Work In Progress on December 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Hey there blog people! For the first time I hit my Nano 50K early, at 7:30AM on the 28th to be precise. I used the rest of the month to get in a few more words but mostly I got lazy. Now we’re into December and I’m ready to get going again! Well almost, I [...]
Halfway
Posted in Current Progress, Nanowrimo, Word Count, Work In Progress on November 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It is now halfway into Nano and I start today about 8000 behind, including what I need to write today. (See, it’s not so bad). The 15th seems like a good day to take stock. I have shelved the steampunk novel I started for a time when I can do the research necessary to let [...]
