Nanowrimo Accountability

Well my goal for this past week was 5,000 words. Not a bad goal. However, it is my sad duty to inform everyone that, I didn't make it. Again. But hey, I'm writing, so already I've won! So there! However, I did sit down and figure it out, to make a 50,000 word deadline by the end of the month, you need to write about 6 pages a day. Which means that as of today I should've written 24500 words or 98 pages.
Oops.

My goals for 11/14/2005 -- 5,000 wordsI wrote = 3,424 words (19 pages)
So my goal for 11/21/2005 -- 4,076 which would put my total at 7,500 words.
What I "should" be at is 36,750 words or 147 pages.

I am, however, almost down with the first chapter. And I can't wait to get writing again! So much for my muscle test. :)

Accountability

The secret to success is accountability, well it is in my world. I set a goal to write 2000 words by today. Specifically on Heir Apparent. I have changed novels and am working on GTF. My goal remained the same.

Goal for 11/7/2005 = 2,000 words
Actual = 1,850 words.
Goal for 11/14/2005 = 3,150 words for a total of 5,000 words.

And all on GTF. Which means I should be writing and not blogging. NIght all.

Writer's Conference

I had the amazing good fortune to attend a writers conference -- Autumn Authors Affair -- in Chicago this past weekend. It was hosted by Love Designers, an Romance Writers of America Chapter for romance writers. I attended workshops on charaterization, plot, conflict, and suffering. I met several authors and editors, and was thrilled to find that I could once again write. I'm not to the point where I have to story ideas, but I do have new characters floating around, some good and some bad, and I have direction for a story I have started for the Nanowrimo. I'm about 1250 words into it. All in all, it was a wonderful time.

NANOWRIMO

This month is National Novel Writing Month, Nanowrimo, at least it is according to author Chris Baty and the thousands of us who participate in this every year. The idea is to write 50,000 words in one month on one project, say a book or movie script. No problem you say. Yeah, but this is in addition to the hariness of your life already. So you are writing in addition to working, being a parent, and preparing for the onslaught of the holidays. And I'm participating again this year. I'm hoping to beat last years personal record which was about 2,000 words. I didn't do so well last year. I'll keep a weekly tally going, a goal for this week and how I did last week. I'm working on Heir Apparent, the first in a new series. And while this isn't a movie script, it's still writing.