How’s It Going:
Still not getting words easily, but I think I finally figured out my issues with the main plot. Guess the “go for a walk” trick does work, even if that wasn’t the intent. (I’ve been walking around the office/up and down the stairs on my breaks to offset how much I sit around on my ass all day.)
How’s It Going:
Not well. I’m still not meeting my daily goal, and I barely scraped enough words together this week to hit my weekly goal.
Part of my problem is I know where I need to go, but I’m not sure how to get there.
How’s It Going:
So I had a bit of a headstart. Sue me.
I’m actually kinda glad I did, because hitting that 500 daily word mark…did not happen. But you know what, that’s okay, because I know I’ll hit my groove here eventually. It’s only the first week.
How’s It Going:
Got a little worried the weather was gonna stop me earlier, but thankfully we’ve only been losing power for a minute or two at a time.
I decided my budget is blown enough already, and I’m running out of time, so I’m forgoing getting a final proofread from Audrey. I’ve run the manuscript through a basic grammar and spelling check through Google Docs, and parsed through Grammarly suggestions on word choice and punctuation. Then I combed through Audrey’s comments again for the formatting and punctuation fixes she sprinkled in, and checked for some of my most common “errors” (like putting an “s” at the end of toward and backward…try as I might, I just can’t take the Texan out of me.) I’m pretty confident that anything more would just be piddling, so I’m calling the proofread done.
It kind of falls somewhere between the proofread and actually formatting the ebook, but next week I’m going to finalize my chapter and scene breaks before importing the manuscript into Kindle Create. We’re getting close!
How’s It Going:
Well, the weather seriously threw a wrench in my schedule. There was a huge storm that came through Wednesday evening and knocked out power at my house until almost midnight, so I wasn’t able to get anything done. Thankfully, I was already a little ahead, so I grinded through my 60 pages last night, a lot of which were notebook paper with nothing but handwritten words I had to type in, so I just barely finished before I had to shower and go to bed. (I also went through the other day and pulled out all the pages that were clean, so that knocked out quite a bit as well.) That left me with a whopping 33 more pages to deal with tonight, again with a lot of handwritten pages to type in.
But I am DONE with the editor’s revision! And in equally awesome news, I now have a total wordcount of 54,781.
Meilo Zaborowski: Author 