Comments on: March 30 - Sunday Check-In

By: Lynn

Lynn — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:04:48 +0000

About 500 new words since last check in. Way below where I should be, but I’m hanging in.

By: Cynthia Eden

Cynthia Eden — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:24:01 +0000

I’m late checking in, again. Sorry! I finished 60 pages this week…moving right along.

By: Sarai

Sarai — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:14:35 +0000

Due to some personal crap the last two weeks I have only wrote around 5,000 on a re-write. My main story however, has suffered and only rec’d a 1,000. *sigh* Now that the crap is over I should be able to jump back on target!

By: deniz

deniz — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 05:46:05 +0000

Typed up some edits this weekend and felt pretty good - pages 1-20 (out of 80 on Really Tiny Printing) are all clean now. But I’m kind of discouraged by how much there is still to do…

By: Zoe

Zoe — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 04:05:50 +0000

I’m still slogging along. I’m at 58,000 words now, almost halfway through the story (this one is running long). I’m feeling kind of discouraged, because the story looks horrible to me right now, but that always happens to me in the middle of the story.

Meanwhile, I’ve got my next project almost entirely plotted out. I just have to go over it some more, and figure out whether or not to get rid of one of the characters, and then I’ll be ready to start an outline.

By: Shayla Kersten

Shayla Kersten — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 03:27:22 +0000

Got a lot accomplished but not a lot of words… Finished the 20k novella with another 1500 words, self-edited, wrote the synopsis, cover letter and submitted it via email yesterday morning. Finished self-edits on a previously completed project, wrote the synopsis and cover letter and submitted it as well.

I updated my “bible” on my Ellora’s Cave series and sent a requested copy to my editor. Then I started book 4 in the series. Read through my previously written outline worked on changes and details. I managed 1200 words yesterday on the actual story.

So I feel good about my progress even though my word count is low. Considering I did a long post on my blog about my Memphis trip with Delilah and spent a good portion of Saturday on a Yahoo group chat, even the low word count isn’t really bad.

By: Jean T.

Jean T. — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 03:12:28 +0000

I’m updating late as I managed to lose track of time this last week. On the up side I managed over 2k this last week. With a total of 8,033 I’m not where I wanted to be, but at the same time I’m ahead of where I was when I started. Any progress is good progress in my book, so I’ll call the last four weeks a success.

By: Merry

Merry — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:13:17 +0000

I’m doing better than last time. Only 8k written new so far, but I’ve been typing up/ revising as I go as well, so collectively it’s going well.
I’ll be starting a new piece in the next couple of days as well, and I’m going to avoid writing longhand as the transcribing is a pain in the rear!
Hopefully, this will mean that the next month will have a greater wordcount. It will be interesting to compare actually, and see whether I’m more productive with a longhand start or a direct to pc.

Congratulations to all those who are where they want to be at the end of this month!

By: Thomma Lyn

Thomma Lyn — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:51:57 +0000

I’m doing very well, but I’m still having to stop and brainstorm and storyboard every little bit because this novel is growing in such interesting and unexpected ways. But as of Sunday, I’m sitting at 46,902 words, so I’m pleased.

By: Xidu

Xidu — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:56:41 +0000

I’m on 35,951 words. My writing time has been chopped down to about 4 times a week so I suppose it’s not too bad. I’m still behind though and am not too happy abut that My OH says I’m beating myself up too much and it’s the story that counts, not the amount of words written. I have to keep reminding myself that although my output has shrunk this year, I’m much happier with the quality of the work I’m writing