#ROW80 Rd 4 — wk 5, rpt 2

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.

#ROW80 Rd 4 — wk 5, rpt 1

NaNo has begun!

I am off to a GREAT start.  Day one closed with my having logged 3115 words over two documents–one short story (and a very strange one at that) and one… I don’t quite know what to call it, but it’ll be the “glue” or transitional text to hold all the other short stories together in my anthology.

I also edited several chapters of my novel on day one of NaNo.  I think I have about 8 more chapters to go, then tackle the edits for the three added scenes, then do an overall review of my edits, then ship off.

Did I mention I get to reveal my novel’s cover and back blurb on November 14th?  I do!  I can’t wait to share it.  I think my publisher, J Taylor, did an outstanding job capturing the tone of the novel and in helping me with the back blurb, never mind who did most of the heavy lifting **cough**J Taylor**cough**.  A little less than two weeks to go.

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.