Are You Writing? Week of 10.9.17
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“Are You Writing?” is a new weekly space that will allow you to post your writing, editing, and reading goals for the week — in public! for accountability! — and to let us know how you did the week before.
Anyone remember AccountabiliBuddy!? It’s like that, but with many more partners.
If y’all like this and find it useful, we’ll do it every week.
This week:
What are your literary goals for this week (writing, editing, reading, whatever)? Let us know in the comments.
Last week:
Did you hit your goals from last week? If so, good job! If not, what kinds of roadblocks did you run into? Share your experiences below.
I’m talking to *you*, Jen and John, Lisa and Alia. And anyone else who made goals but didn’t post them.
My goal for this week is to write 2,500 new words and edit last week’s new writing. I also have to clean up a submission that’s due to my writing group. And I want to read another 50 pages of Mary Karr. Except I shouldn’t say “another,” because I didn’t quite hit that goal from last week. I read maybe 20 pages of The Art of Memoir. But I *did* write my 2,500 words, and I did edit the little bit I’d written the week before. I did NOT transcribe the two interviews I said I would. Why? Because transcribing… Read more »
Oh, also, if you need to refresh your memory on what last week’s goals were, and you left them in a comment, here’s the post from October 2:
https://www.writebynight.net/are-you-writing/writing-week-10-2-17/
My main character name is David Sagacious. Editing, after so many months is becoming more of a chore. One way to snap myself out of bleary eyed zombie like state. Have fun with my Thesaurus. For example? I created the following just a few moments ago: David, da derelict descends. HE is not ME. Dependable dreary dementia, demoralizes, and denotes detached derision. Heartbroken harbinger, he heckles his hideous humanity; hemorrhaging hostility; hurricane histrionics, harvesting harrowing, habitual hallucinations – his happiness hibernates. What happens when you are in a reverse writing zone? Slogging through page after hundreds of pages. For the… Read more »
Finding myself in a lull, or is that a rut, between ideas about my very long novel and the editing which I am not enjoying, but must be done… I’ve come to a conclusion. My book is actually two books. I don’t believe it is reasonable to assume any publisher would take a chance on a newbie, with a book approximately 700 pages. My first book is already titled…David Sagacious: That’s Life I am going to title the second half of what was the first book…now book #2…David Sagacious: That’s Death And my third book, which I haven’t outlined yet…David… Read more »
Hey John. You’ve maybe seen it already, but I replied by email. Thanks for leaving your thoughts and questions here.
This week’s goals post is live!
https://www.writebynight.net/are-you-writing/writing-week-10-16-17/