I’m working my way through Ready, Set Write! this summer 🙂    

And as of this Friday, my summer is officially over.  In terms of words, it’s been an incredibly productive summer.  I wrote a story I love with characters I adore, and really, what more can a girl ask for?

Week 11 Update:

1.  How I did on last week’s goals:  Well, my goal was to find the “bigger hook” for my manuscript, which I’m not sure I did, but since all of this publishing business is subjective, it’s possible someone will think I did.  🙂  I revised exactly zero words but I spent a LOT of time thinking and plotting and letting ideas simmer.  I’m content with the decision I’ve decided to go in, so that’s something.

I also worked on finding hooks for other ideas I have brewing, or for things I’ve got 1st drafts on that need revisions, and came up with several one-two line pitches for them.  A few are really standing out and talking to me, so one will most likely become this year’s NaNo project.

I completed 8 recommendations letters, better than my goal of 5, so yay!  I’m at 10 total.

I’ve now completed one round of the 21 day fix, which I enjoyed but did not stick with 100%, particularly this last weekend.  I may have fallen off the wagon, but it won’t be hard to get back into the routine starting today and this is definitely something I can make happen while I’m back at work full time.

2.  My goal(s) for this week:  Same as last week – revise the manuscript and write 5 letters.  I go back to work Friday (who makes employees return on a Friday?!) so it’ll be a challenge.

3.  A favorite line from my story OR one word/phrase that sums up what I wrote/revised.

I got nothing for ya this week in terms of new words.  Here’s a pitch, though, for a story that’s already written and needs some cleaning up.

When a state championship-bound swimmer catches his coach, who happens to also be his future sister-in-law, taking advantage of a new teammate, he must decide whether telling is worth ripping his team and his family apart.

4.  The biggest challenge I faced this week (ex. finding time to write):  Always me.  This was the week my brain decided to actually take a vacation.  I watched a lot of bad TV, read some books, went shopping, but did not crack the WIP at all.  I figure since I worked my butt off every other week since the end of June, I probably needed and deserved the break.

5.  Something I love about my WiP:   This is more in general, but I love that when I finish something I love, my brain presents me with another idea.  I’m always terrified that I won’t be able to keep this up, that the ideas will just dry up, but so far, that hasn’t been the case.  And this time around?  I’ve been hit with about 5 new ideas so now the problem is just picking one.

How did YOU do?