Writing goals for August
Aug. 3rd, 2010 06:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wordwhackerI'm up to thirteen weeks of writing for my ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
tamingthemuse run. I'm really glad I'm doing it again. It's a strict enough deadline to keep me producing and thinking through new work on a regular basis without being too strict (aka: locking me into a particular setting, or fandom, or group of characters). Most of my stories have been really rough-cut runs this time around, which is fun now and then, but it doesn't usually leave me with a draft that I'm all that eager to work with because it needs SO much work.
Also: editing has been super slack. Lots of new stories = good. No progress on old stories = bad.
And then there's scripts. They also need some love.
Anyway, with that in mind, here are some writing goals for this month:
I've got a head start - I just finished my third draft of Rainy Day. I'm going to give it ONE more solid red pen treatment and then submit it to a couple of magazines. (I should probably come up with a better title for it. "Rainy Day" sounds pretty boring.)
tamingthemuse run. I'm really glad I'm doing it again. It's a strict enough deadline to keep me producing and thinking through new work on a regular basis without being too strict (aka: locking me into a particular setting, or fandom, or group of characters). Most of my stories have been really rough-cut runs this time around, which is fun now and then, but it doesn't usually leave me with a draft that I'm all that eager to work with because it needs SO much work.Also: editing has been super slack. Lots of new stories = good. No progress on old stories = bad.
And then there's scripts. They also need some love.
Anyway, with that in mind, here are some writing goals for this month:
- channel the "write it rough" tendencies into weekly 15 minute fics
- do at least an hour of planning / outlining for the weekly tamingthemuse stories
- produce a new draft of an older story at least once a week
- flesh out the script version of A Bright Girl (which I'm calling "Clever Girl" but I'm sure that'll change at some point)
- submit at least three stories for publication
I've got a head start - I just finished my third draft of Rainy Day. I'm going to give it ONE more solid red pen treatment and then submit it to a couple of magazines. (I should probably come up with a better title for it. "Rainy Day" sounds pretty boring.)
