A Goal Review

Hello world I’m back! I thought it was time I reviewed my goals so far. I can tell you know they are not going as well as I had hoped, but there is still time to get my act together.

Writing:

Finish editing first 3 chapters of Lady Mounthall by 21^st January to send off to be critique by Michelle Styles. I’m still working on this hoping to get it send off tonight or tomorrow at the latest. So that will be 3 – 4 days behind schedule

Edit short story for anthology by 7^th January. Okay, I’m hanging my head in shame here, I’ve hardly looked at this and I’m not even sure if I’ll get done now. I’ll need to make up my mind one way or the other by the end of the week so I can let the group know if I’m still in or out.

Finish writing and editing Lady Mounthall by 1^st July ready to pitch at RWA conference in August. Will at least this is a work in progress and I am making some progress, just not as fast as I’d like.

Enter Valerie Parv Awards. Still on the drawing board as this doesn’t open until March.

Plot out next Regency romance. I’m not looking at this for at least another couple of months or I’ll want to write it now and forget about Lady Mounthall.

Edit at least 2 of my contemporary romances. Again, this is more for down the track, so still have time here.

Blog at least once a week.  Yes, well we can all see how great that is going, not at all.

Personal:

Loss 12kg by RWA conference or 31^st July. A work in progress, I’ve lost 1kg so far. Well I lost some put it back on and lost it again. Lord help me.

Don’t spend as much this year. Money is a funny thing, it just disappears sometimes. But I am doing better.

Stay on top of housework (hate doing that). Yes well, I don’t have much to say on that point only that I’m really trying.

Visit Mum at least once a week more if possible. Getting to do this most weeks, just depends on whether it is early in the week or later. Thanks heavens I have sisters and brothers.

Spend time with my family as much as possible. Getting to do this as well. That’s if they’re not away on holidays.

Other news:

NewMait Writers had their first meeting last Saturday and we decided on a name change. So now we are ‘Hunter Romance Writers’, you can visit our blog to find out more about our members.

It was a very constructive meeting with goals set for bother the group and individual people. As always Suz (S.E. Gilchrist) was on top of the ball making sure we stayed on track and didn’t go rambling off on tangents for most of the meeting.

We are going to make better use of our yahoo group this year as a way to stay in contact with each other during the month.

What else is news? Well I’m not sleeping again so the tennis has been great. Yes, I know I could write and I do most nights or read something on my new Kindle (I love my Kindle). I have heaps of research information I downloaded from The Gutenberg Project site. It’s well worth a visit if you’re into Historical information.

Well that’s it from me, must get back to my editing or I won’t have it finished to send off to Michelle.

Have a great week and happy writing.

Sandie

The end is here, yes 50ks In 30 Days has come to an end. What a wonderful month with have had. We started with the month with 51 challengers and ended with 46 either completing the challenge or at least getting some great word totals. Everyone has said that they have enjoyed the month and have never written so many words in a month before.

RC, you know Rachel C/Rhian is hoping to reach 100k. I’ve decided to call her Queen of the Bionic Fingers. She has had an amazing month. The last couple of days we have seen a lot of the girls make the sprint home, a few had not been sure at the start of the month if they would make it to the 50k, but true to the Aussie sprite they continued on. Other just had the whole universe fighting against them and no matter what they did event from the real world just would not leave them alone. Yet they continued, continued writing determined to at least work towards a personal best.

So what was my final total? Well that would be 75,080. I now have three novels of 50k to edit as well as two of 15k. So July is looking at being another busy month, I’m thinking this editing may roll over into August which is fine, as long as at the end I have something that will be worthwhile submitting.

Well that’s me for another challenge. I have a few BIAW coming up, but other than that life may be a little slower. WOOHOO won’t that be nice.

Hugs
Sandie

I've Been Slack Again

I've been so slack this week, it's as if I reached my target and that's it. I really wanted to have at least one more of my WIP's finished, but my hero and heroine have gone off to places unknown. They were last noted as having sex on her kitchen table. I guess this is what happens when you leave your character doing the horizontal tango for too long. Anyway I have found a couple of other willing couples ready to play.

One is a new work altogether, yeah I know like I NEED A NEW WIP. It's like got two finished and move out (or at least into a new area of the Brain Motel) and more move in to take their place. The second one I'm working on is one I've done a little bit with and they shouted the loudest so got moved up a couple of spots. I'm hoping against hope that I may be able to make these two novellas rather than novels. I'd like to have a go at writing a 'Spice Briefs',so I'll see how I go word wise, I tend to go waaaaaaaaaay over.

I've also been trying to organize my work area, you know try and keep it in some sort of order. At least I can now sit at my computer and not have piles of folders and books falling all over me.

I'm off to write some more.

Hugs

Sandie

I Reached My Target, But Not My Goal

I reached my target today, just not my goal. Well kind of, sorta I did. I finished the novel I was working on this passed week, but I didn’t get to the 50,000 words with it. I know when I edit it I’ll get there but at the moment I just really do not want to go back and add anything yet. The biggest thing with the story is that I started it almost two years ago, my writing has changed, I think, no I believe I have grown as a writer so there will be a lot of changes. Anyway with finishing that one up and doing a bit more to a couple of other WIP’s I reached my target of 50,000 words for the month. So YAYA me. I haven’t told the girls at 50/30 yet, I’ll do that tomorrow. I really didn’t think I’d get any writing done today but just plodding along I got there. I still have a couple more WIP's to work on before the end of the month, so I might get my goal yet.


I’m hoping to be able to see my chiropractor tomorrow. I pulled something in my back or shoulder the other day when I was doing some housework, dangerous occupation housework. Anyway if I sit for too long typing it gives me curry. So on that note, I’m going to say goodnight. Yes it’s night time here in the wonderful land of Oz. Happy writing.

Hugs
Sandie