Tag: writing goals

I’m neither angel nor demon spawn

Goal 1) Revise BM&A3

  • My Goal: Finish one lesson every two weeks (roughly)
  • Where I planned to be: Lesson 2, 32 scenes in
  • Where I am: Lesson 2, 24 scenes in
  • On Target or Behind: Behind

How’s It Going:
Pretty good, I just haven’t quite gotten the hang of my new writing day schedule yet. Sunday night rolls around and I suddenly remember and go, “Shit!” -scrambles to read the lesson and print worksheets-

Believe in memories to resurrect me

Goal 1) Revise BM&A3

  • My Goal: Finish one lesson every two weeks (roughly)
  • Where I planned to be: Lesson 1, complete
  • Where I am: Lesson 1, complete
  • On Target or Behind: On Target

How’s It Going:
Welp, it definitely needs some work, but it’s not terrible. In fact, there’s quite a lot of it I really like and enjoy. I would say no notes, but that’s not entirely true…

Can you even see what you’re fighting for?

Goal 1) Revise BM&A3

  • My Goal: Finish one lesson every two weeks (roughly)
  • Where I planned to be: Lesson 1, 32 scenes in
  • Where I am: Lesson 1, 32 scenes in
  • On Target or Behind: On Target

How’s It Going:
Pretty good so far…I think. I haven’t made a lot of notes, good or bad. I’m not so far up my own ass that I think it’s because I’m just that good, because I’m not. I may have made more good notes than previous books? But I imagine I only get better with each book.

This is still quite early in the process though, so we’ll see where this goes.

Hold my breath as I wish for death

Vacation is over, I’ve given the draft time to breathe, and now the time has come to revise.

GOAL 1) REVISE BM&A3

  • My clear target is: Revise BM&A3 (final title pending)
  • My reachable deadline is: August 25, 2025
  • My working days are: Sun-Tues
  • My method of measuring progress: Scenes, page count, and lessons
  • My end goal: Have a revised novel ready for content edit
  • My daily goal, and number of available days: Depends on the lesson, roughly two weeks per lesson, 3 days a week
  • My leverage — WHY I need to do this: Andrew will hound me until I finish I have to finish Madison’s story.

‘Bout to start in on reading the thing in its entirety for the first time. Wish me luck…or, you know, pray for me. Either one works.

You can stand under my umbrella

Goal 1) Write BM&A3

  • My Goal: 500 WPD, 1500 WPW
  • Where I planned to be: Further than this
  • Where I am: 39172 words
  • On Target or Behind: I think done, either way

How’s It Going:
Not so hot, you guys. I think it’s time to call it. Despite going through the gist of what I have and trying to organize it, I just can’t see what else I need. But I have a fairly healthy chunk of writing here with a beginning, an end, and at least most of a middle, so I’ll let it cool off for a while then come back later and start the revision.

It can only get better from here.

I want to give myself at least a month to let my brain relax (at least from this story), but I’m not sure yet if I want to start the revision ASAP or give myself a longer break. May depend on what I decide to do in the meantime.