Monthly wordage report

[julesjones]

It isn't a PicoWrimo month, but I may as well note August's wordage. I wrote every day (although I didn't hit 200 words on a handful of days), and added 13,000 words to the novel WIP. Did a couple of book reviews, which I must post. Had a short story accepted by Loose Id, which will be released as a freebie at some point (probably relatively soon, given that I was doing edits over the weekend, but I'm not promising anything). Sent a query off, but no response so far and by now I'm not expecting one.

Given that I seem to be able to do a solid 10k a month at the moment, I may well finish the rough draft of the WIP before the end of September. Unfortunately it's going to be a *very* rough draft, and I think I will have to set it aside for a couple of weeks before I go back to edit it.

I've got several partials in the pipeline to work on in the meantime, including two novels that I really want to get done and out there on submission. I also have some completed pieces in need of a home, so I'm seriously considering taking part in pitchmad (a Twitter pitching thing) next week. In order to do that I'll need to come up with some Twitter pitches, which will be a good exercise for me anyway. I may be inflicting the results on my flist for comments. :-)

Comments

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

That sounds like a month of very solid progress. :)

[julesjones]

It was. :-) And while the word count was lower than the previous month for various reasons (two migraines didn't help), I think I got something useful out of LA Witt's book on writing faster. I prefer to start at the beginning and go on to the end, but was stuck on one bit, and dithering about whether to give in and move on to the next section. I'd have done it sooner or later, but I probably did it a week earlier than I would have. I've now got to go back and write that piece once I finish the last chapter this week, but I've still got more words in the file than I would have had.