- Write 3000 words per week, minimum. This is a little less than what I set for round 1, but pacing is more the point of this goal.
- Incorporate beta reader comments into round 2 edit of My Fair Vampire
- Finish first draft of EITHER Sins of Our Mothers or Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. Words written can count for goal #1.
- Beta read or critique at least 1 novel and 3000 words per week.
Goal 1 (3000 weekly words):
- Week ended 4/9/11: 2178 words for Don’t Ask and a few hundred in the evenings
- Week ended 4/16/11: 5372 words for Don’t Ask
- Week ended 4/23/11: 4866 words for Don’t Ask
- Week ended 4/30/11: 5743 words for Don’t Ask
- Week ended 5/7/11: 11,319 words for Don’t Ask and Prometheus
- Week ended 5/14/11: 8188 words for Don’t Ask
- Week ending 5/21/11: 9804 words for Don’t Ask and a short story
- Week ending 5/28/11: 12073 words for Don’t Ask
- Week ending 6/4/11: 9927 words for Don’t Ask
- Week ending 6/11/11: 8568 words for Don’t Ask
- Week ending 6/18/11: 1886 words for Don’t Ask, 1132 for short story = 3218
- Partial period ending 6/23/11: 3600 for short story 1 and 800 for AW flash = 4400
- GOAL ACHIEVED!!!!
Goal 2 (MFV edit):
- Week ended 4/9/11: Nothing
- Week ended 4/16/11: Nothing
- Week ended 4/23/11: Nothing
- Week ended 4/30/11: Nothing
- Week ended 5/7/11: Nothing
- Week ended 5/14/11: Nothing
- Week ending 5/21/11: Nothing
- Week ending 5/28/11: Nothing
- Week ending 6/3/11: Rewrote the ending
- Week ending 6/11/11: Nothing
- Week ending 6/18/11: 8 chapters!!
- Partial period ending 6/23/11: Nothing
- GOAL Partially Achieved
Goal 3 (Finish 1st draft):
- Week ended 4/9/11: 2178 words for Don’t Ask and a few hundred in the evenings
- Week ended 4/16/11: 5372 words for Don’t Ask
- Week ended 4/23/11: 4866 words for Don’t Ask
- Week ended 4/30/11: 5743 words for Don’t Ask
- Week ended 5/7/11: 7686 words for Don’t Ask
- Week ended 5/14/11: 8188 words for Don’t Ask
- Week ending 5/21/11: 9212 words for Don’t Ask
- Week ending 5/28/11: 12073 words for Don’t Ask
- Week ending 6/4/11: 9927 words for Don’t Ask
- Week ending 6/11/11: 8568 words for Don’t Ask
- Week ending 6/18/11: FINISHED FIRST DRAFT of Don’t Ask (100,500 words)
- GOAL ACHIEVED!!!!
Goal 4 (beta read novel / critiques):
- Week ended 4/9/11: 2 chapters (long ones), ~3200 words, inclusive of edit comments.
- Week ended 4/16/11: 3.5 chapters, ~14,400, inclusive of edit comments
- Week ended 4/23/11: 327 words misc critiques
- Week ended 4/30/11: 8632 words misc critiques
- Week ended 5/7/11: 2613 words misc critiques
- Week ended 5/14/11: 1983 words misc critiques and a chapter for a beta read
- Week ending 5/21/11: 8000 word critique + several beta read chapters + 2 Scribby critiques
- Week ending 5/28/11: several beta read chapters + 3000 word Scribby critique
- Week ending 6/4/11: Completed beta read of one novel…just need to xcribe notes and transmit
- Week ending 6/11/11: 879 word critique and 2 chapters of new beta novel
- Week ending 6/18/11: More on beta read, at the 30% complete mark; xferred about 1/2 Kindle comments to file for other beta read
- Partial period ending 6/23/11: 5000 word critique, at 55% mark on second beta novel
- GOAL Partially Achieved