FebNoWriMo 2015

mrsmig · Jan 31, 2015

Since the clock is ticking down on January I thought I'd get next month's thread up and running.

Since I didn't achieve ANY of my January goals, I'm rolling them all over to February. So no big changes here:

Finish first draft of WIP: 111,657 out of ?????
Write short story for Secret Solstice Swap: 2,865 words out of ????
Read two books: 0 out of 2
Write one blog post: 0 out of 1

Sam Argent · Jan 31, 2015

Last month's original goals: send out stories instead of sitting on them.

auzerais · Jan 31, 2015

I am reasonably happy with my progress on my January goals, given that I was hit in the face with Life Stuff, so...here goes.

Finish Games of Thrones,
then read 5 more books.
Ten journal entries.
Do Part one of the editing process on this link:
http://hollylisle.com/one-pass-manuscript-revision-from-first-draft-to-last-in-one-cycle/
Then follow part two of the editing process for Part One of the book. I don't know if it is reasonable to expect that I will finish this in February, but I would like to see some effort.
Then write a list of scenes that are missing from Part One.

Here goes!

Caitlin Black · Jan 31, 2015

In honour of FAWM (February Album Writing Month - it's a song-writing competition like NaNoWriMo) I'm going to have to make a musical goal this month. And I'm getting sick of the Happiness Updates of last month. So...

1. Record some guitar music that doesn't suck.
2. Finish writing this non-fiction WIP (it's only a short book as planned).

So. I think I'll stick to just those 2 goals for now.

Sage · Jan 31, 2015

1. Finish my Secret Solstice story (this has to happen, no matter what by the 14th)
2. Finish my beta read that I am delinquent on (I promised this would happen this week)
3. Edit short and send it back out
4. Work on either H/V1 tweaking, aPB revising, or H/V3 writing.
5. Read 12 more books.

VP_Benni · Feb 1, 2015

I'm going to try to keep in mind that February is a short month while creating my goals. I highly doubt that it's going to make too much of a difference.

Goals for February:

*Keep up with schoolwork (of course)
*Write at least 5k of non-school anything even if it's just journaling. Or random letters. Just writing.
*Read 5 books
*Review at least 1 book
*Complete 5 DayZero goals
*Finish scholarship applications
*Finish upgrading my computer so I can play games

Yep, short month totally did not help me there. So be it. Let's see what I can do.

~Amber~

Tamlyn · Feb 1, 2015

I always read these threads and have goals, but I never post. So I thought I might!

1. Edit Secret Solstice Story
2. Edit four chapters of WIP
3. Edit two other stories
4. Read four books.
5. Either minimum 500 words OR two edited pages per day.

Given all my goals are editing ones, I suspect it will be the latter. I completed all my January goals, but it was at doing a minimum of things and playing lots of games. I'm going to try and do better this month (but hopefully still play lots of games).

chompers · Feb 1, 2015

Just a few goals this month:

1) Finish WIP #4.
2) Finish betaing book.

I'm expecting a lot of time in the upcoming couple of weeks that will be just waiting around, so hopefully I'll get a good chunk knocked out during that time.

mrsmig · Feb 1, 2015

Tamlyn said:
I always read these threads and have goals, but I never post. So I thought I might!

1. Edit Secret Solstice Story
2. Edit four chapters of WIP
3. Edit two other stories
4. Read four books.
5. Either minimum 500 words OR two edited pages per day.

Given all my goals are editing ones, I suspect it will be the latter. I completed all my January goals, but it was at doing a minimum of things and playing lots of games. I'm going to try and do better this month (but hopefully still play lots of games).

Glad you posted, Tamlyn. You and Sage and I can encourage each other (i.e. crack the whip) to get our Secret Solstice stories finished!

CoffeeBeans · Feb 1, 2015

My life is all about work and robots right now, so I'm going light on the goals...

Finish going through beta notes
Apply beta notes
Send out second beta round
Plot SNI
Sign up for next set of classes
Keep up with homework

This amounts to a lot of finishing what I started last month, but I have done all of my beta reads, so that's one accomplishment off my plate. Fingers crossed beta round two will give me a solid progress check. Maybe I'll even get started on the new SNI (no chance).

auzerais said:
Do Part one of the editing process on this link:
http://hollylisle.com/one-pass-manuscript-revision-from-first-draft-to-last-in-one-cycle/

I've used this, and it's pretty close to my current edit method. Now that I use scrivener, some of the steps have changed a little (the docs are much more modular/manageable), but I found her course wonderfully helpful. It also got me started on buying a lot of her other courses, which have really made a big impact for me.

Sarah G · Feb 1, 2015

I am going to join this thread this month and I am going to try and stick with it instead of disappearing into the land of lurking too.

Goals:

. Finish edits on WIP
Short and simple, should be able to manage that, maybe. :tongue

Caitlin Black · Feb 1, 2015

Just wrote 1600 words for my WIP. Huzzah! I'm now at about the halfway point, at least as far as chapters are concerned.

It'll probably only be a 10k book, though.

Parametric · Feb 2, 2015

2077 words yesterday. I need to regain some momentum.

Forbidden Snowflake · Feb 2, 2015

Well, January went well.
2 blog posts. 2 books and I've written a novella (35K), which is waiting for me to edit. But, I will be leaving it on the side for a bit.

February. Write and finish WIP.
I'm currently 800 words in.
4 blog posts. And 4 books.

Hope it goes well

mrsmig · Feb 2, 2015

Well, my life is suddenly more cartoonish than usual.

I drove to my mother's to spend her birthday week with her (she turns 94 next Sunday) and had not even been there six hours when I got a frantic call from a casting director asking me to take over a role in a show, effective IMMEDIATELY. This means I will have to get back on the road today, overnight somewhere along the way, complete the trip home Tuesday, repack and get on a train to NYC at oh-dark-thirty Wednesday morning. I'll only be in NYC for four days (the show will be performed in the DC area, where I live), so I'll actually be back home when I'd originally planned to be - but the difference is that instead of returning from a pleasant trip to a life of placid house-wifery, I'll be in the process of frantically trying to learn a role before the show goes in front of an audience. Hi-diddle-dee-dee, an actor's life for me...

It may be that all my good February intentions may be for naught - but maybe not. I'm going to leave them in place and see what happens. I got just a little written yesterday on the WIP but I really have to focus on finishing the short story since that's on deadline.

Finish first draft of WIP: 111,984 out of ?????
Write short story for Secret Solstice Swap: 2,865 words out of ????
Read two books: 0 out of 2
Write one blog post: 0 out of 1

endearing · Feb 2, 2015

Wow, mrsmig! Sounds hectic. Hope it all goes well.

In January, I finished out my NaNoWriMo novel's first draft (ended at about 64k) and started brainstorming my next WIP.

In February, my main goal is to finish brainstorming, the bulk of my research, and hopefully an outline for my WIP, so that I can hopefully start writing by the last week in February, since I'm pretty excited about it! I want to leave my NaNo novel to simmer for a week or two, and then do a read through and start editing.

SoCalWriter · Feb 2, 2015

Hey Everyone!

I think I'm going to join this thread to keep myself on task for the month. I recently left my job and am in the midst of finding a new one so I want to make the most of my time off. Here are my goals for the month

1. Write 1,000 words a day in my WIP until it is finished (I'm very close to the end)
2. Finish beta-ing a book I've had for months
3. Read 4 books

Looking at it, it seems doable. Here's hoping!

Parametric · Feb 2, 2015

1767 words.

bdwilson · Feb 2, 2015

Here we go again. Hopefully I'll get to cross more off this month, as it's starting to get a bit embarrassing :tongue

Plot L2 with the Snowflake Method
Get all critique group responses done within the first week
Edit novella first & second parts from feedback
Clean up novella third part and send to critique group
Finishing reviewing short story and send back to editor
Get my other waiting short stories submitted

CoffeeBeans · Feb 3, 2015

Did 20 pages of revision last night. I do know how to fix that problem I had in the second chapter. If it's not enough of a fix, I can add to it.

Halfway through the third chapter, an hour's worth of work, and it still surprises me how quickly I get right back into the world. Hopefully, I'll finish chapter three tonight, and that will mean I'm nearly half way. Half. Way.

Clearly, I'm super excited to make some progress.

meowzbark · Feb 3, 2015

This month's goal: finish writing the damn book.

Caitlin Black · Feb 3, 2015

Just wrote another 1k words on the NF book. Up to 5.6k so far. Huzzah!

Tamlyn · Feb 4, 2015

Yay Cliff Face!

One chapter down. Many more to go. I was meant to be working on My SS story today as well, but I think I need a break. Maybe I'll get more done later.

eternalised · Feb 4, 2015

This month's to do list:

- finish edits for Reflected (editor gave some great suggestion, but man, going through edits takes ages for this one!)
- finish first draft of Ghostslayer (would be about time, but I'm getting there)
- edit Ghostslayer
- query The Gatekeeper (YA novella)
- blog at least twice a week
- finish client edits (so far, two proofreading projects and an editing project for this month, maybe more)

measure_in_love · Feb 4, 2015

thought it'd be a good idea to get back into this. I've been slacking for a few months.

February Goal:
- Try to write a little bit every day on WIP and meet weekly goals. Total word count goal for February: 25,000 words.
-Edit previous written scenes for WIP.
-Write contributing articles for hellogiggles
-Maybe try and do some flash fiction.

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