The last milestone was my 800th post, which featured the first sentence of a story, milking a cow, and lots more.
Prior to that, I celebrated my 500th post with a week-long contest and a recap of all the posts that had gone before, including a very handy list of all the books I'd reviewed, plus blog awards and writing snips and author interviews and writers' houseparties and Charles II and so on. I'd really like to do that for today's post. Unfortunately, I don't have time to go through 400 posts one by one. Maybe when I hit 1,000 I can make the effort, especially since going through the list of posts has gotten me intrigued about all the authors I've reviewed or interviewed.
Instead, I'm going to share a few random ones from the last 400 posts that leap out at me based on their titles:
ew round of A Round of Words in 80 Days starts on 2 July!
"What Is ROW80?A Round of Words in 80 Days is the writing challenge that knows you have a life.
We are all different and we all have different demands on our time.
Why should we all have the same goal? The simple answer is that we
shouldn’t. If you want to be a writer, then you have to be able to roll
with the punches and adapt to your changing circumstances. If that
means changing your goals when your life blows up, so be it. ROW80 is
the challenge that champions the marriage of writing and real life. For more on why I started it, see this post.
So here’s the skinny:We have 4 rounds a year, each running 80 days. Your goal can be anything you like as long as it is measurable (e.g. number of words/pages, specified amount of time to spend on writing per day/week, number of pages edited, etc.–for more on what makes a measurable goal, see this post).Once you have settled on a goal, you write it up on your blog (yes,…
Perhaps it's time for some resolutions - writing related ones, of course!
Let's see if I can break this down month by month for Out of the Water:
January - a relaxed month for edits, but more research is needed
February - tying up loose ends; finding missing names, filling in square brackets, lots more research
March - ramped up edits; checking the themes, imagery, character arcs, and so on
April - possibly another houseparty on the forum! A good time to put the MS aside a little and let it breathe.
May - pick up Out of the Water again. Panic a little. Edit some more. Polish some more.
June - am I ready for betas? Or shall I really put the book aside? Maybe, gasp, start work on the three or four other ideas swilling about in my brain?
July - time to decide. Betas or bust!
August - possible feedback from betas. Good or bad, it'll mean more edits and rewrites, no doubt.
...and I think I'll stop there. Doesn't do to think too far ahead, for…
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