Last night, after a couple of solitary sprints and a handful of 30 minute word wars via the NaNo boards, I slightly surpassed my 2013 word goal of 100k.<\/p>\n
And there were confetti bombs and fireworks – in my head as I crashed for the night.
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\nSee, I hadn’t written a single damn word other than blog posts, twitter\/facebook statuses and emails between January 1st and July 1st. July 1st, I started my JulNo project (although co-written with Mel Choly under the pseudo Melanie-Jo Lee), Windygates, which I’ll continue once I get Galleys Between and The Big Blue Shirt out of my head.<\/p>\n
I’ve thought about upping my goal to 150k, but I think instead I’ll focus on another goal: editing 100k before the end of the year. This seems a more productive and manageable goal, what with NaNo running and other things I want to focus on in November and December. Galleys Between – Sacrifice is in final edits with Mel, and she’s got the third instalment, Deception. It’s going to need a fair bit of work, I think. I was rushing it… or at least, it felt rushed to me.<\/p>\n
I’m really enjoying having Friday afternoons and evenings to myself to work on my writing. Instead of taking an hour and a half coffee break\/lunch, I’ve been doing a half-hour, and using the other half hour to join a sprint or word war. And the third 30 minutes is either spent back at work, or doing a household chore.<\/p>\n
A system is developing here, something that’s been missing (as I’ve moaned about before) since we started Belfire. <\/p>\n
*knock on wood*<\/p>\n
That’s for it staying this way!<\/p>\n
I hope everyone else is having a productive and creative November, even if you’re not WriMo’ing your way through the month…<\/p>\n
Keep at it, whatever it is!
\n<3\nJL\n\n\n\n
PS:<\/strong> For you WriMos, by the end of today you should have completed at least 10000 words to stay on track.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last night, after a couple of solitary sprints and a handful of 30 minute word wars via the NaNo boards, I slightly surpassed my 2013 word goal of 100k.
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