Mellisonant March - 500 words/day, all genres welcome!

WHAT HAPPENED TO FEBRUARY??

This thread is for word count/daily writing/editing posts. General chat belongs in Life of Crime and Chocolate.

How was your February? Did you meet your goals? Suffer from the short month? Take 28 days as a challenge?

What are your March goals?

Here we go!

onesecondglance said:

I'd like to write some words in March. That would be nice.

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Sending and whenever you need them.

I accomplished my February goals. I also nearly pulled the rest of my life onto my head after them. I need better time management skills.

This month: My agent read the draft, and mysteriously seems to think I might be able to make it work, so there will be revisions this month. (I think I have through June to get it in shape for the editor, but I may be off by a month one way or the other on that.) I am also expecting to get notes on Book One at some point, so I will be revising two at once. Yay?

So perhaps my March goals will be to a) not fall behind; and b) not go insane.

So I got my Official Editing Notes on Book One today. Overall, I am relieved - they seem reasonable, and perhaps even doable by deadline (March 27).

Except for this one OH HELL NO WHAT KIND OF BOOK DO YOU THINK I'M WRITING HERE??? suggestion. So we'll see how my reaction to that goes over.

Excellent start to the month, everyone!

Welcome, SaraK! Sometimes the out of control ones turn out to be the best.

Sorry about the migraine, BfloGal. Not helpful at all.

osg, tinkering is endless. As you know.

Yay for new shininess, Namatu!

Thinking of you, Saoirse, and hoping you are celebrating victory even as I write this.

Wrote to my editors today and said (basically) "I love all these changes! Except this one thing. How about I do this instead of that?" And they said "Yeah, okay." So there is work to be done, but at least we all agree on what it is.

Unfortunately, I didn't get much done tonight, because we had to take a kitty to the ER. She is still uncomfortable, but is on medication now, so hopefully she'll be able to settle for the night.

Tomorrow: Edits! No, really!

Congratulations, Saoirse! You are an awesome zombie.

So, going through line edits is fun. Especially when they are from two different editors who sometimes undo each other's changes. I guess in those cases I pick what I want?

My plan is to do the easy changes over the next 3-4 days, although at this pace it might take longer. There is one larger change I agreed to make toward the end of the book, and that will take more work.

T minus 22 days.

4/59 chapters edited.

I must be faster.

10.5/59.

I suspect if I claim daylight savings slowed me down, they'll only give me an extra hour on my deadline.