Last week was a bit hard on the writing goals, but I did manage to write 1,000 words per day most days, so I still made progress, just not as much as I'd have liked. Tempest was late, which bummed me out, but we had a stellar party on Saturday night that made the catch up I'll be doing this week totally worth it.
I have a deadline this week too - NaNoWriMo starts at midnight Sat. (or 12:01am Sun., whichever you prefer) this weekend, and I have a few things that I really, really, really want to have done before that happens. Thus my extensive writing goals this week. I'm determined to meet them!
Weekly Goals
Writing
- Finish the draft of Her Private Chef
- Write 5 chapters of Tempest to schedule through Nov. (that's one ch. per day Tues-Sat)
- Plan out a series of holiday flash stories for Free E-Day (see Thurs. post for details)
- Beta read an ms for a writer buddy
Personal
- Get the house tidied up after the party
- Start an inventory for our Halloween decor
- Write a letter to my Grandma and mail it with a card for her birthday (these are the little things I always forget, and feel like an idiot about afterwards...so I'm putting it here to remember)
Reading List
Would you be surprised that I hardly read at all last week? I was just too busy with everything else going on, didn't even get my lunchtime reading in. Major bummer. This week I'll be beta reading (see above), and I'd love to get in a few more books, but we'll see. I've got a lot of writing to catch up on! Now where did I hide my TBR pile when I was cleaning the bedroom? Hmmm...
That's it for me (that's enough, I think)...what are you up to this week? Reading anything good?
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5 comments:
Sounds like you're a busy lady. Have a great week!
Wouldn't it be nice if we could stretch our days by a couple of extra hours? :-)
Wow. You astound me! Haven't read anything much, just working on getting my outline done before Saturday! It's almost here...
Good luck on HPC, I know you'll do it. Can't wait to read more.
Aw. Your Grandma will appreciate that. See ya around :)
Wow Jamie, you have certainly got full schedule before NaNo. For about a month or so, my writing has been pretty much non-existence. I have edited couple of short stories I had wrote, but other than that I have just focused my thoughts on plots, because I didn't want to start anything new and stop it in November.
Still reading Lathe of Heaven. Usually I read more in a week, but this is a slow week, what with outline panics and everything. And watching Season 1 of Sanctuary on DVD :P
Good luck with all your goals. Especially writing ones.
Well, if I hadn't started off so slow with HPC, I'd be done by now. And have more time to finish up other things before NaNo. But, such is life. *sigh*
Next year, I'm going to plan better. No more of this finishing a draft right before NaNo...I'll make sure to finish by Oct. 1st, if at all possible.
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