Busy, busy!

I racked up some impressive word counts and manuscript edits this week, submitted my contest entries (yes plural as in 2! if you count Nathan Bransford’s blog dealio), got in my third flash fiction challenge and all my blog posts, though my last was admittedly rather disturbing.  I’m out of breath figuratively and literally.

My only criticism about how I spent my time is my lack of attention to my NaNo novel, Sins, this week.  Ellen’s tale got the lion’s share.  I think it’s because I know I’m going to rewrite the last bits I just wrote to have my plucky Sins heroine brave some baddies on her own instead of with her protector.  Time for her to stop being the victim and to take some ownership.  Yeah!

So, the usual:  my stats are here.  The Linky site where my compatriots are checking in is here.

I’m happy to say I picked up the pace a bit, as reflected in my daily word counts.

I managed to break out My Fair Vampire for some editing during my lunch breaks at work.  I love this story and really need to clean it up and get it to beta readers soon.  I’m glad it’s part of my round 1 goals.  If I’d been more on the ball, I might have had it ready for the Amazon Breakthru Novel contest and killed two birds with one stone, but the first draft writing commanded more attention.  The pall of the unfinished NaNo novel, Sins of Our Mothers is like my own private sin of procrastination.

My January goals of 3 flash fictions and one contest submission are achieved.  I never had any doubts about achieving these, nor hitting 4 blog posts a week, especially considering 2 of them are for ROW80.

My stats are here.

A list of the other participants are here.  Please check in on a few and give them some words of encouragement.