Round of Words in 80 Days

Still clicking along with NaNo. I find that writing short stories for my words is in some ways harder and in other ways easier than a single novel. It’s harder in that I have to come up with multiple beginnings, multiple middles and multiple endings. It’s easier in that the stories stay fresh in my head, are are easier to return to because of the variety. Of the seven short stories I need to write for my anthology, I’ve completed four and am nearly finished with the fifth.

I got my two weekly blog posts done too.

My novel edits have not been touched in a week. Oy! They are due 11/17 and I seem to be shoving them into my vacation time all next week…well, by Thursday anyway.

Only four more days until the cover and back blurb reveal for my novel!

Looks like I’ll have a cover reveal for my other pen name’s Christmas anthology soon with much attendant fanfare planned. THOSE edits I finished lickety split and returned. All praise to the short story (and a one week deadline)!

My goals and current stats for this round are on my ROW80-4 page. I’ve added a NaNoWriMo widget from the site now that they are (finally!) available.

The Linky site lists other participants’ progress reports. Give them some encouragement too.

This was a good week for me. I’m ahead of NaNo pace at 1888 words per day average, and have written 2 short stories for my anthology and started a third. I’ve also written most of the segue text between the short stories. Only three more tales to tell to finish off that baby!

I got my two weekly blog posts done too.

Evernight sent back edits for my short story contribution to their Christmas anthology. I received very complimentary remarks the editor and publisher including a “we’d love to see more from you” comment in the edits transmittal. I think I only had one thing to fix–converting two spaces after the period to a single space. Gosh that is such an ingrained habit from when I learned to type in the late seventies. Oy! Easy enough to fix, but I can’t stop myself from doing it, would rather do a global replace at the end. How silly, right?

My goals and current stats for this round are on my ROW80-4 page.

The Linky site lists other participants’ progress reports. Give them some encouragement too.