2009 reflection, 2010 planning

Such a transformative year! One year ago last Friday, I began this blog to keep myself honest. It was a second step in me becoming a more serious writer (I count NaNoWriMo 2008 as the first step). I am hopeful that the next twelve months will be even more so.

Here's a recap of my writing year, 2009:

2009 new words

18 K LSCTS
+50 K Something
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=68 K new novel words
+15K Short stories
+150+ pages of scripts (at 100 wds/page or less)
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about 100K = total new words in 2009

To qualify this paltry number, I do want to point out that the fire wasn't really lit under my ass until September, thanks to Kris and Dean. Still, I don't remember the last time I had a 100,000 word year...probably not since graduate school, and almost none of those words were fiction.

In the mail:
4 short story queries (with 4-5 needing to be re-submitted)
6 Novel queries for LSCTS.

Here are my 2010 goals:

1. 20 novel pages or one short story a week (about 5K)
2. Stories and finished novels in the mail same week finished.
3. Script Frenzy in April (with class?)
   
4. NaNoWriMo in November (with class!)
5. 48-hour Film Project in August
6. One blog post a week. I need to at least post my wordcount, but I am considering posting excerpts, etc., too. Of course, once something sells, it will be all over this baby. :)
   

That's all for now! Wish me luck. I wish all of you, happy readers, a fully creative new year!
maren

5K!! Hooray!

Daily total: 1,329
Weekly total: 5,031
LSCS total: 70,146

Great day! Not only did I break 5K in one week, but LSCS broke 70K! That means I'm only 10,000 words away from my goal of finishing 80K on this book by March 1.

Let's see, it's 2/20, that means I have eight days to write 10K...that's 1,250 words a day. Honestly, though, I'm not going to write a word on Sunday because I'm going to a conference in Portland. So that's closer to 1,500 words a day. That's still less than my 1,667 words a day for NaNoWriMo in November. Like I said before, it's not whether I can, it's if I will.

Still, I get to buy myself a present because I met my goal this week. Yippee!

Oh, and what I wrote today was an alternate ending to the scene with Maureen from yesterday. I decided that she meets her tart before the sex strike. Charles is always asking me to write a scene with hot girl-on-girl action, so I did...well, tastefully. There's no oil or jello involved. Sorry, honey.

m