Goal Update 9/7

So, this week was kinda nuts. People may like their long Labor Day weekend, but I only work Monday/Wednesday/Friday, and I don’t get paid for holidays. Meaning I had to make up those hours if I want my regular paycheck, and my only available time now to do that is on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons, after my morning class. I did manage to get a lot of homework done for one online class on Monday, but the instructor for my other online class didn’t open up the assignments for this week until Tuesday night.

Cue the Benny Hill theme song as I run around trying to juggle college, work, medical stuff, car stuff, and on top of that, writing. Oh, and eating, showering, and sleeping.

Goal 1) HTWAN story

  • My Goal: 505 wpd, 1515 wpw
  • Where I planned to be: 27775 total words
  • Where I am: 27805 total words
  • On Target or Behind: On Target

How’s It Going:
I feel like I’ve been working on the same scene for weeks now. Oh wait.

It’s good though. Lots of tension. Even I keep asking myself how Jordan’s gonna get himself out of his predicament. And I just keep surprising myself.

Goal 2) Some Kind of Savior

  • My Goal: Step 1: Find the changes – 20pgs per day; Step 2: Rewrite scene sentences when I’m done with that
  • Where I planned to be: Done with Step 1
  • Where I am: Done with Step 1 (finished 9/4), working on Step 2
  • On Target or Behind: On Target

How’s It Going:
Despite this week’s craziness, I really powered through finding all my changes. Now that the manuscript is all chopped up, finding my way through the pages was a little dicey at times (“…87, 88… where the hell is page 89? Oh, here it is on the back of page 80.” -facepalm- This is what I get for printing double sided…), but I managed fairly well. Actually reading through it after my initial cut, I can see a few spots where I know I’ll need to fix things, but it otherwise isn’t quite as bad as I was thinking.

I haven’t had a lot of time to work on rewriting the sentences, but it’s going well, and I can hopefully get it done tomorrow or Monday so I can start looking through the scenes to make sure those are solid.