Well, Nano is over for another year, and I once more find myself sitting in December wondering how I'm going to edit all of the words I wrote during November. The answer, of course, is one book at a time. I just wish I was faster at the editing process than I currently am.
Anyway, as I'm sure all of you noticed, my blog got a little bit of an update this week. I (sadly) took down the donation link to nano (though if you would like to donate, just visit www.nanowrimo.org and you can definitely make the donationt here). It will be back next year, though I won't be travelling to San Francisco in 2013.
You might also notice that I've added a 'goals' section. This is very important, because I have a lot of goals for next year, and I'm hoping that tracking them here will make me focus on them a bit more. Now, I didn't want to discriminate, so any and all goals I have will be making it into that section. You'll see that getting Pandora submission worthy is first on the list. What isn't there is getting it to Beta's by the 24th. I decided not to add that, because technically the list is for 2013 goals, and that's still 2012.
I've actually started to continue reading through Pandora to get it edited (almost done. On chapter 35 of 40) and I'm finding that there are actually some chapters that I enjoy reading! This is shocking because I'm definitely my biggest critic. I will sit there and rip my stuff to shreds, and then I hate putting it back together again. I think this is why I don't enjoy editing as much as some of my friends do. Anyway, the point is, I didn't find myself cringing during every chapter, and I think that means that maybe I'm ready to start raking in the rejection letters! (Let's face it, we're talking about a werewolf book. While I think it's great, most places are going to tell me that it's a hard sell...)
Of course, I'm still waiting to hear back for the short story I submitted. I'm not frantically checking every email, because I almost want it to take longer. Every day I don't hear back is another day that I haven't been rejected, so I'm looking at it as a good thing that it's been over a month since the submission!
I'm slowly reorganizing myself to truly become serious about writing. I always thought that last year I was ready for it, but I didn't even begin to be serious enough to truly make it as a writer. I'm not quitting my day job just yet, but I'm going to crack down. I'm going to follow through on my goals, and I'm going to be published. Maybe not this year, but soon. I have so many stories that I want to share with the world!
P.S. I have decided that, for now at least, the Sunday and Wednesday schedule is good for the blog, so I'm going to stick to that!
It's amazing to see how fast November goes by. Being slow at editing isn't really a bad thing, as you can catch more mistakes when your slow rather if your zooming threw it. At least that's what I have noticed.
ReplyDeleteAdding a list of your goals for next year is a great idea. I never would have thought of that, then again I don't really plan that far ahead.
I wish you the best of luck with the story that you submitted. *prays that they don't reject it*
Come to think of it I don't think I've ever told you how much I like the way you have your blog set up. I wish mine was set similar to yours.
P.S. Yeay, good to know your keeping your post days the same, so I know when to read them as I always find something inspirational no matter what you write about.
That's true enough, I just always find it so frustrating to do the editing part when it took me a week to write the first draft...
DeleteThank you so much! That's probably the greatest compliment anyone has ever given me. ^^