round of words in eighty days

OH! I guess we started. Oops. I haven’t done Jack Squat other than this post, been more into reading. Nothing to write home about. But at least there’s a Twitter party going on to cheer me up on 10/5. Just watch for the #ROW80 hashtag. Lots of virtual booze and snacks. I’m bringing margaritas and daquiris.

I’m still debating whether I CAN do NaNo this year. I have 40 hours of continuing professional education to complete between now and 11/30. Gulp. And I’m heading out of town all of next week for work. Double gulp. It ain’t lookin’ so good right now.

On a cheerier note, I plan to go to Portland’s Wordstock Festival this weekend. This will be my first writer’s convention evah and I’m super psyched about it. A lot of big name authors will be there–Ursula LeGuin, Lauren Oliver, Maggie Steifvater, Scott Westerfeld–and so will I, with my camera and my fangirl squee all tuned up.

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

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

New round, new goals. This is my fourth ROW80. Whew! But, it works, so I keep coming back.

This round, I have a LOT on my plate with my debut novel looming just around the corner, so it’s not going to be too writing-centric.

The writing I do plan, however, will be heaviest in November for NaNoWriMo–whatever I plan to do to get those 50k words–lighter in October and December. Those months will mostly be prepping for November, editing (The PURE and my other manuscripts) and pre-publication duties. I will still write, but the tasks will be short–blog posts, short stories, that sort.

This round probably has the highest potential of any I’ve done so far of requiring tweaks along the way. No biggie though, right? That’s the nature of the ROWnd. 🙂

My goals are on my ROW80-4 page.

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