Weekly Writing Goals

Since I am in "downtime" between waiting for Immo2 to get through editing and waiting for NaNo2012 to get here to start Immo3, I have a list of items that I am working on.

For Immo3, I have some research on writing battle scenes as that is something I am feeling iffy about writing. Although, I have never written about sailing before (and honestly can count the number of times on a boat on one hand) yet managed to do so fairly well in Journey of Shadows. So winging it isn't out of the question. 11.5 weeks until NaNo starts so I have a decent amount of time.

My writing goals are:

1. Research specific topics
1. realistic and descriptive battle scenes
2. 15th century Moldova
3. colonial America
4. Cincinnati in the 1800's
5. antiques from 1300's and up
2. Write something daily
1. back story for a few other stories in the works to pick up on next year
2. journaling through NaNo prep

Do you have writing or goals related to your profession that you are working through?

Love is love, no matter the back story. <3 DS

Success!

I finished my read-through finally! Let me repeat... I hate, hate, hate editing. It is my least favorite part of writing. But it is part of it so I do it. Yes, I have a wonderful editor, but that doesn't mean I get to slack off and give him the 1st draft and make him deal with it. I sent it to him this evening and the file I sent was revision #3. As I did the read-through, I edited for clarity, passive voice, and continuity. We'll see how good a job I did once he has a chance to look it over. I'm still somewhat close to when I figured I'd finish (the 20th). Depending on his other projects and stuff going on in his life, I'll have Immo2 ready for Beta readers before long. No ETA, just soon. :D As always, I will update you when I have more information.

Love is love, no matter the back story. <3 DS

Update On MS

Fixing the italics in Immo2 took less time than I thought. A few hours over the past couple days. However, my first read-through session netted 22 pages over 5 hours. Granted, I was plenty distracted. The kids, the cats, parents, phone, etc. But I really hoped that I could get more done in that time. At this rate, I won't be finished until about the 20th or so. Oy. I hope the weekend works out a little better.

I'll update my progress in a few days. :)

Love is love, no matter the back story. <3 DS

Goodbye Summer Break!

I go back to work tomorrow. I'll be up at 6 or 6:30am by the latest. The coffee is ready to start. My lunch is so not packed. My clothes are set out though. 2 out of 3 isn't too bad I guess. I'm ready to get back to work.

The cats finally had their baths yesterday and today thanks to my 13 year old cousin. She wanted to do it. Yea, I know right? Weird-o. But I was sure to thank her from the bottom of my lazy heart.

I got a lot done over the break. Thanks to Steven, my 8 separate files for Immo2 morphed into 1 large manuscript weighing in at over 131,000 words. Cripes. I whittled away about 150 words today just by doing a spotty adverb purge. It took all damn day long. I fixed the chapter, section, and paragraph breaks yesterday. It took several hours but not nearly as long as today's project.

I nuked the file so now comes the fun part. This is my project list for now: