As April draws to the close, I now pause to reflect upon how I did.
1) I finished the monthly goal, and surpassed last month's count. I'm hoping to break 29,000 before I submit my word count for the month. I'm fairly hopeful about it.
2) I'm currently at close to 39% completed for the year. Some of my fellow club members have upped their goal to 300K. I'm not sure I'm ready for that, but I would still be on target for 275K. Well, we'll see as things progress...
3) I'm the Team Leader for Week Four of the Muse Grove Challenge http://http://musegrove.suddenlaunch3.com/index.cgi#Teams
My goal for this one is 6,500. I have less than 5,000 words to write before Cinco de Mayo.
4) I've decided I'm going to either read or outline on my lunch breaks, because I can't use the computer at my desk (silly rules).
But May is the month of my birthday, and Memorial Day at the end of it, so I'm not sure how well I'll do next month, but I am currently slated to finish in early November. A pretty nice improvement , considering last month, it was the end of November.
I've also decided to do a prompt from Challenge Now for May. 5K words minimum. We'll see how that goes...
And of course, I still need an idea for July....
Sunday, April 30, 2006
Sunday, April 23, 2006
Post #3 for the Month
Looking back through my logs, I've noticed that this post will be the third time I've posted this month. Maybe I can stay on track with weekly updates on Sunday, but I sort of doubt it...
On the good side, I have now met my goal for the month and am forging ahead. My new goal is to hit 90k by the end of the day, but so far, it's going slow. After about 4 hours or so of writing, I'm now about 200 words away. So many distractions sometimes. My kid asking for Google searches and downloads of things, and lots of IMs on various gaming related topics.
Well, in the end, though the words came slowly, I did hit the 90K mark today. Had a fair amount to reply to on the boards, and I started working on the club's second April writing prompt. I finished the first, and you can find it here. http://250k.blogspot.com/2006/04/april-prompt-detective.html
Well, my intro for the Shadowrun game won, but the Moderator edited it a whole bunch, even changing the ending to be a bit less dark.
On the good side, I have now met my goal for the month and am forging ahead. My new goal is to hit 90k by the end of the day, but so far, it's going slow. After about 4 hours or so of writing, I'm now about 200 words away. So many distractions sometimes. My kid asking for Google searches and downloads of things, and lots of IMs on various gaming related topics.
Well, in the end, though the words came slowly, I did hit the 90K mark today. Had a fair amount to reply to on the boards, and I started working on the club's second April writing prompt. I finished the first, and you can find it here. http://250k.blogspot.com/2006/04/april-prompt-detective.html
Well, my intro for the Shadowrun game won, but the Moderator edited it a whole bunch, even changing the ending to be a bit less dark.
Sunday, April 16, 2006
A Third of the Way!
So, today I hit the 1/3 mark! Not too bad, considering April is only a little more than halfway through. I've also got about 15,000 words done for this month, which means I'm less than 5K away from the month's goal.
In addition, I signed up for Julnowrimo, July's novel writing month. Might be a tough thing to accomplish, considering I have a wedding to attend the first part of the month. But we'll see.
On the PbEM Front:
Sodium is up and going, though the ST's posts are but a trickle. At least he's posting. A lot of the other players are too.
MP is terribly slow, but there is some activity now that FF is back.
Riverton is going in fits and spurts, same with PoD. But I sympathize with PoD's ST. It's not easy looking for work, and his quest may be over soon. (Crossing fingers for him)
Portland Shadows - Not looking too good. I did my part and got my character done though.
First Cabal - ST has been too busy to post, but is looking to start again.
Shadowrun - Both characters are in campaigns, plus a little side stuff. I also submitted the story by the deadline. Turns out only one other person did. Last time I checked the polls, the story was winning by a handy margin.
Writing Prompts: The club has two this month, I'm working on one. I'll post it here when it's done, because it will be long. Also trying to work hard on this week's Muse Grove challenge. Our team won handily last week, so it would be nice if we won again.
In addition, I signed up for Julnowrimo, July's novel writing month. Might be a tough thing to accomplish, considering I have a wedding to attend the first part of the month. But we'll see.
On the PbEM Front:
Sodium is up and going, though the ST's posts are but a trickle. At least he's posting. A lot of the other players are too.
MP is terribly slow, but there is some activity now that FF is back.
Riverton is going in fits and spurts, same with PoD. But I sympathize with PoD's ST. It's not easy looking for work, and his quest may be over soon. (Crossing fingers for him)
Portland Shadows - Not looking too good. I did my part and got my character done though.
First Cabal - ST has been too busy to post, but is looking to start again.
Shadowrun - Both characters are in campaigns, plus a little side stuff. I also submitted the story by the deadline. Turns out only one other person did. Last time I checked the polls, the story was winning by a handy margin.
Writing Prompts: The club has two this month, I'm working on one. I'll post it here when it's done, because it will be long. Also trying to work hard on this week's Muse Grove challenge. Our team won handily last week, so it would be nice if we won again.
Sunday, April 09, 2006
April Optimism?
Well, unfortunately, I wasn't able to complete my March Madness goal of 31,000 words. Gamestorm was just too much fun, so I wasn't able to get any writing done that weekend. I did, however, exceed the monthly goal, so it wasn't all bad.
So now comes April. The monthly goal is a little smaller at 20,550. At this writing, I'm closing in on the 30% completion mark as well as 7,000 words, so I'm a bit over 13,000 words from making the goal for the month.
Alas, though, the words are flowing a bit slowly. On the very bright side, Sodium Noir is back up and running again! Yay! As I've said before, the trouble with PBEM games is that they experience lulls from time to time, especially on the weekends.
So, my hope is to try to hit the 30% mark tonight. Guess I'll have to try to come up with something original.
And then there's still the quandry of Julowrimo and Nanowrimo. I need to come up with something. Maybe July would be a good time to do a Shadowrun piece and put it up on the Proboards website. I may know enough about the setting by then...I hope.
So now comes April. The monthly goal is a little smaller at 20,550. At this writing, I'm closing in on the 30% completion mark as well as 7,000 words, so I'm a bit over 13,000 words from making the goal for the month.
Alas, though, the words are flowing a bit slowly. On the very bright side, Sodium Noir is back up and running again! Yay! As I've said before, the trouble with PBEM games is that they experience lulls from time to time, especially on the weekends.
So, my hope is to try to hit the 30% mark tonight. Guess I'll have to try to come up with something original.
And then there's still the quandry of Julowrimo and Nanowrimo. I need to come up with something. Maybe July would be a good time to do a Shadowrun piece and put it up on the Proboards website. I may know enough about the setting by then...I hope.
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