2nd Quarter Summary, #RoW80 Goals
2nd Quarter Summary
The nice part about RoW80 is that it's pretty much a quarterly challenge. I like splitting things into easy to manage chunks. Second quarter wasn't as good as I wanted it to be. I've gotten most of the way through an edit Divine Fire. The last quarter of the novel is still rough and I still need to write that scene, that scene I should have written in June.
On the submission end:
Submitted 9 queries to agents, received 4 rejections this quarter.
I currently have 5 short works subbed to various markets. Two rejections from that front.
Finished reading 7-8 books and a handful of short stories. Ill-advisedly started a new blog.
And this quarter has been hard on me socially. There's been a death, a friend moving away, and another friend's abrupt marriage. These kinds of changes are tough on a hermit.
#RoW80, Round 3, preliminary goals
I'll be moving back to Luck for Hire.
I definitely need to give it a read-through. I'm not sure that it will need a 10% cut, but I'll read with that in mind. Considering changing Luck's first gambling scene. Eric also has an idea for showing the uncanny nature of Luck's luck. Aside from those two things, I have 22 note cards with things that need to be addressed (not to mention going though my list of banned words and getting rid of them). How does that break down into daily/weekly goals? Hmm.
I am considering making a time goal. This is not something I usually do. Usually, I set a goal and a deadline and work/procrastinate toward it. But maybe a time goal with definite sub goals, like:Four hours of work daily on Luck for Hire.During the first week:writing a new version of that gambling scenewriting the first proof-of-concept on Eric's idea (which might be the gambling scene, I guess)reading through the first fifth of the book duringThe return of #2QueryTuesday (subbing to agents/markets at least 8 times in a month).Other goals for this round/the immediate future:Write new blurb for LucindaGive Lucinda a read-through and formatGive Pas de Chat a read-through, edit, format, write blurbThis is my preliminary plan. Ambitious! Especially for July/August.
One thing that strikes me as a little funny about #RoW80 lately is the unofficial motto, "A writing challenge for normal people." And I get the meaning. A Round of Words in 80 Days is the diametric* of National Novel Writing Month. For most people (myself included), writing 50K in a month requires an inordinate amount of time spent on writing. More than most people can give without shutting out much of life. RoW80 lets you set your own goal and even change it, so you don't have give up life for writing. But for me, my RoW80 goals are actually geared toward putting "life" stuff behind writing. Writing is my life, or should be. I am maybe not the "normal" for Round of Words.
RoW80, round 3 participants!
*Can I use diametric that way? Seems like it should be correct.
The nice part about RoW80 is that it's pretty much a quarterly challenge. I like splitting things into easy to manage chunks. Second quarter wasn't as good as I wanted it to be. I've gotten most of the way through an edit Divine Fire. The last quarter of the novel is still rough and I still need to write that scene, that scene I should have written in June.
On the submission end:
Submitted 9 queries to agents, received 4 rejections this quarter.
I currently have 5 short works subbed to various markets. Two rejections from that front.
Finished reading 7-8 books and a handful of short stories. Ill-advisedly started a new blog.
And this quarter has been hard on me socially. There's been a death, a friend moving away, and another friend's abrupt marriage. These kinds of changes are tough on a hermit.
#RoW80, Round 3, preliminary goals
I'll be moving back to Luck for Hire.
I definitely need to give it a read-through. I'm not sure that it will need a 10% cut, but I'll read with that in mind. Considering changing Luck's first gambling scene. Eric also has an idea for showing the uncanny nature of Luck's luck. Aside from those two things, I have 22 note cards with things that need to be addressed (not to mention going though my list of banned words and getting rid of them). How does that break down into daily/weekly goals? Hmm.
I am considering making a time goal. This is not something I usually do. Usually, I set a goal and a deadline and work/procrastinate toward it. But maybe a time goal with definite sub goals, like:Four hours of work daily on Luck for Hire.During the first week:writing a new version of that gambling scenewriting the first proof-of-concept on Eric's idea (which might be the gambling scene, I guess)reading through the first fifth of the book duringThe return of #2QueryTuesday (subbing to agents/markets at least 8 times in a month).Other goals for this round/the immediate future:Write new blurb for LucindaGive Lucinda a read-through and formatGive Pas de Chat a read-through, edit, format, write blurbThis is my preliminary plan. Ambitious! Especially for July/August.
One thing that strikes me as a little funny about #RoW80 lately is the unofficial motto, "A writing challenge for normal people." And I get the meaning. A Round of Words in 80 Days is the diametric* of National Novel Writing Month. For most people (myself included), writing 50K in a month requires an inordinate amount of time spent on writing. More than most people can give without shutting out much of life. RoW80 lets you set your own goal and even change it, so you don't have give up life for writing. But for me, my RoW80 goals are actually geared toward putting "life" stuff behind writing. Writing is my life, or should be. I am maybe not the "normal" for Round of Words.
RoW80, round 3 participants!
*Can I use diametric that way? Seems like it should be correct.
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