February not-Word-Count

February's goals weren't word-count goals. There were only sort-of goals at all, which may have been some of the problem. So:

Finish re-writing Highway of Mirrors synopsis: Rough draft done. I'd meant to get it done done, but I somehow lost track of the fact that the month was nearly over.

Start querying again: Not done. Obviously, since I need the synopsis for that.

De-bracket Kitchen Sink, add sub-plot: Really not done. In my defense, my alpha-reader is not in one of her lightning-fast phases, but also, de-bracketing takes an astonishing amount of time and NaNo-style writing leaves a lot of brackets.

Not on the goal list, but a noteworthy accomplishment anyway: Entered Big Deal Conference contest. Which included writing a blurb as well as selecting an excerpt, so some work there.

Total score 0.5 out of 3, plus 1 extra credit; not an impressive tally. I don't feel all that bad about it, though; the work that I did get done (the synopsis) is good work, and I think I may have broken a mental barrier with it. Plus, I did just finish a novel last month; one is perhaps entitled to a bit of a rest, after that.

Only a bit, however. So, March's goals:
- revise Kitchen Sink (de-bracket, add sub-plot, other revisions as necessary)
- finish the bloody HoM synopsis
- query at least one agent

Also, do some writing, even if it's just fanfic. Because I am a happier person when I am making new words.

Tag, You're Not It

One of the challenges of database design is not just accommodating current needs, but anticipating future ones. I'm good at doing this most of the time, but most =/= all.

Tags are a database. And there are some things I'm still talking about that were tagged a certain way for reasons that no longer apply, or that I no longer want to think about in that way.

If you reached this post by following the HoM tag for Highway of Mirrors, you'll want to continue with the niay tag.

If you reached this post by following the Haley novel tag for the as-of-this-posting-untitled Haley novel, you'll want to continue with the novel 2 tag, which it was before I finished something else first. ;-)


(And if you're reading this on LiveJournal, you'll have to find those tags yourself, as the links point to Dreamwidth. And if you're reading this on Dreamwidth and want the niay tags prior to May 2nd, 2009, you'll have to look on LiveJournal. Platform changes, bleargh.)