April Word Count / Goals
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lizvogelFirst, the word counts. For there were words, even if that wasn't the goal-marker.
Kitchen Sink: 3554
other: 426
Total new words in April: 3980
Huh! That was a lot more than I expected, on Kitchen Sink. And that's net; there was a lot of cutting in there as I flailed around with the bits-added-in-later, and I was braced for the result to be pretty low. (For the record, gross was 4308, not that that counts.)
This is why word count is a useful metric for me, for all its occasional frustrations.
The "other" was a short-short, original prompt-fic; I'm not sure it's publishable outside of the Podunk Library Newsletter-Gazette, but I like it. :-) Am wildly relieved that I can still write a short-short, after all this noveling.
Now, the actual goals as set:
- Finish the sub-plot and related elements in Kitchen Sink: Done.
Would have liked to have gotten the beta-edits done as well, but that would have required getting it to my beta-reader more than four days before the end of the month. Even so, that's done to about the two-fifths mark.
- Query at least one agent a week: Done, -ish. It wasn't one agent each week, but there were four weeks in April, and I queried four agents (Well, with a little fudging on the calendar, but given that for one of the agents, every listing I found had different submission requirements, I think I'm entitled to a fudge factor.), so good enough.
Note to self: When setting goals for next April, I must remember that taxes exist.
As for the non-writing goals, I did get the car seen to (which is why I'm not doing anything else for a while; ouch$). Or mostly, anway; there's a follow-up thing that I'll take care of next time it's in for an oil change. I did not get the new userpic made; the item I want for the base picture is remarkably hard to photograph well, and will take much more fiddling with than anticipated. Or maybe a better camera/photographer.
Goals for May:
- 5000 new words. Doesn't matter on what, though I started a new story last night that seems promising.
- Finish beta-review & edits on Kitchen Sink. Basically, get it really and truly Done, at least for now.
- Continue querying on Highway of Mirrors, at least one agent per week.
- tentative goal: Start getting back into the Haley novel. It's been on hiatus for various good reasons, but one more good reason and it's going to start looking an awful lot like an excuse. Time to put it back into production. Minimum quantifiable: Reread the existing chapters, make any remaining tweaks for the new plot and/or notes about things that will have to be handled differently.
Kitchen Sink: 3554
other: 426
Total new words in April: 3980
Huh! That was a lot more than I expected, on Kitchen Sink. And that's net; there was a lot of cutting in there as I flailed around with the bits-added-in-later, and I was braced for the result to be pretty low. (For the record, gross was 4308, not that that counts.)
This is why word count is a useful metric for me, for all its occasional frustrations.
The "other" was a short-short, original prompt-fic; I'm not sure it's publishable outside of the Podunk Library Newsletter-Gazette, but I like it. :-) Am wildly relieved that I can still write a short-short, after all this noveling.
Now, the actual goals as set:
- Finish the sub-plot and related elements in Kitchen Sink: Done.
Would have liked to have gotten the beta-edits done as well, but that would have required getting it to my beta-reader more than four days before the end of the month. Even so, that's done to about the two-fifths mark.
- Query at least one agent a week: Done, -ish. It wasn't one agent each week, but there were four weeks in April, and I queried four agents (Well, with a little fudging on the calendar, but given that for one of the agents, every listing I found had different submission requirements, I think I'm entitled to a fudge factor.), so good enough.
Note to self: When setting goals for next April, I must remember that taxes exist.
As for the non-writing goals, I did get the car seen to (which is why I'm not doing anything else for a while; ouch$). Or mostly, anway; there's a follow-up thing that I'll take care of next time it's in for an oil change. I did not get the new userpic made; the item I want for the base picture is remarkably hard to photograph well, and will take much more fiddling with than anticipated. Or maybe a better camera/photographer.
Goals for May:
- 5000 new words. Doesn't matter on what, though I started a new story last night that seems promising.
- Finish beta-review & edits on Kitchen Sink. Basically, get it really and truly Done, at least for now.
- Continue querying on Highway of Mirrors, at least one agent per week.
- tentative goal: Start getting back into the Haley novel. It's been on hiatus for various good reasons, but one more good reason and it's going to start looking an awful lot like an excuse. Time to put it back into production. Minimum quantifiable: Reread the existing chapters, make any remaining tweaks for the new plot and/or notes about things that will have to be handled differently.
