Welcome back to Ready. Set. WRITE! A summer writing intensive with the purpose of writing, revising, planning, and keeping each other accountable. We will share goals on Mondays. You can sign up at any of the host blogs (Jaime, Alison, Katy, Erin). Don't forget to hop around to encourage other participants!
Last week's goals:
- I REALLY want to complete my current draft and send to readers by June 30. It's ambitious though. I'm going for it! My minimum will be 5 chapters. COMPLETE!! Much rejoicing!
- Write synopsis of WIP. Potentially enter in 2 RWA contests (material ready except synopsis) COMPLETE! Synopsis written and I decided on 1 RWA contest for this new MS.
- Tackle re-organization and edits for a different manuscript. I've already ID'ed what I'd like to change and have cut and blended a few scenes. This week I would like to recraft previously edited-out scenes to add back into the novel (fun, huh?) and check for overall flow and themes related to specific feedback.
- Provide feedback on another writer's manuscript excerpt
- Finish reading 2 current books and start/finish another over the long weekend
- Organizing what to do next. Getting to a stopping point for 1 project before moving on to the next. I'm still planning to do Camp NaNoWriMo for July, but I have another project that takes precedence. My Camp Nano wordcount goal is low so I can manage both.
How did your goals go this week? Anything fun planned for the holiday weekend?
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Yay for hitting your goals last week! Good luck with everything this week. :)
ReplyDeleteCongrats on finishing your draft! That's awesome. :-) And completing a synopsis too. I'm always impressed by people who can actually write a synopsis because I'm total rubbish at them. Good luck with your revisions this week. I'm sort of doing something similar with recrafting scenes and adding them back into my WiP. Hard to do sometimes, but so worth it.
ReplyDeleteI don't know whether my synopsis writing is GOOD, but I know what the main function is, the main structure, and I try to keep it concise. It's actually hard to fit a novel summary into 4-5 pages 12pt and double spaced! I cut a whole subplot in a synopsis so it could be more streamlined.
DeleteYou can do it! That's my cheer for you to finish that draft. But it sounds like you're being very productive- congrats! Good luck with nano and everything.
ReplyDeleteYay for your finished draft! Good luck this week :)
ReplyDeleteYou've got a lot of goals going on- congrats on hitting last weeks! And good luck with Camp NaNoWriMo.
ReplyDeleteWhoop! You did awesome, Stephanie! Congrats on meeting your goals, and good luck with all you hope to accomplish in the coming week!
ReplyDeleteGood luck with the RWA contest! And good luck with your goals this week :)
ReplyDeleteThanks! I'm mainly looking for feedback, especially since I made the romance more of an overt theme than some of the other manuscripts I've subbed to RWA contests.
DeleteYay for hitting your goals, Steph!!!!!!!! Good lucj with that RWA contest! :-)
ReplyDeleteYay for completing your first draft!!
ReplyDeleteYAY! Congrats on meeting all your goals! (I'm especially in awe of the synopsis thing. I hate those)
ReplyDeleteGood luck with the contest! I hope you have a wonderful week!
Congrats on rocking those goals! And I'm way impressed with you juggling more than one project at a time. Good luck with all your goals this week!
ReplyDeleteI'm working on two different manuscripts too and it's not ideal, but sometimes it has nice advantages - creative ideas bouncing off each other. Impressive goals! Reminds me I should be researching contensts, too.
ReplyDeleteYes agree on bouncing ideas. I also think it's manageable if you're doing different things with e/ MS. I am moving scenes around and fine tuning one, while developing the other story and doing a lot of brainstorming.
DeleteCongrats on meeting your goals!!! I do a lot of adding in previously edited-out scenes myself :)
ReplyDeleteGood luck with your goals and way to go on accomplishing last week's!
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