Round of Words in 80 Days

I started this all ready to make excuses for not doing so well, but after tabulating my stats, there is no need. I’m on track.

I flew to Boston for business Sunday AM and returned Wednesday PM (hence the tardiness of this post). With organized dinners every night, early starts each morning, day-long travel to and from, I thought I’d surely miss the mark. I forgot how productive I was while on the airplane.

I nailed my words, novel progression and beta reading with about 2600 new words written and almost four (long) chapters beta read / critiqued. No progress yet on my editing but that’s probably going to happen after I finish the current novel beta read I’ve in process. Too many things going at once does not work for me.

I did have to withdraw from a contest, alas. After returning from a week long vacation Friday night, I discovered I had until 9 AM on Monday to enter a second original piece of writing in the finals (a second round never mentioned in the original rules, I’ll add). Problem was I had to fly to Boston early Sunday AM. I knew Saturday was going to be a mad rush to catch up on laundry, work on the taxes, participate in a previous writing commitment, get a new debit card (nothing like the prospect of going out of town ATM / debit cardless). I was a wreck. The contest had to go because, gasp, real life bubbled to top of the list. I know! The horror! No Barnes and Noble card for me. Cassandra Clare’s latest release is going to have to wait a bit longer (like I don’t already have a whopping stack of to-be-reads.)

My cumulative stats are HERE.

The Linky tool with the other participants is HERE. Please give my colleagues some encouragement if you can.

I’m back from vacation but am now out of town on business until late Wednesday. I had one day to decompress but I made the most of it (between loads of laundry, some catchup work-work, replacing a lost ATM card, grocery shopping, housekeeping, etc)

I rallied on my trip home from San Diego and at home yesterday. Given that my Monday through Thursday was spend doing family stuff, I think I did okay, having written about 2200 words and critiqued 70 pages of a 400+ page manuscript.

I haven’t touched my to-be-edited manuscript yet but I have eighty days to go through the three sets of beta comments and incorporate their suggestions, the most odious but necessary of which is to tweek the ending…again. It’s good but too abrupt, like I rushed through it, which in hind sight, I did. I accept that criticism and will expand the ending somewhat. No problem. I kind of look forward to playing with Dori and Donovan in the near future.

My stats page is here.

Linky for other ROW80 participants is here. Give my colleagues some encouragement if you can.