Juliana Haygert

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#ROW80 check-in 11/11

Hey friends! Welcome to my weekly ROW80 update!

Here is my goals for the past week and how it went:

  • Writing: Just keep writing. It’s time to catch up with NaNo. That went very well on Monday – I wrote over 6k words. Tues, my kid didn’t have school, so no writing. And then my NaNo plans fell apart (explanation bellow). Wed and Thur, I worked on pre-edits (of the manuscript I’ll mention bellow). Fri, I wrote around 2k words.
  • Reading: read book #67 of the year. I did read #67, but I confess I skimmed a lot because I wasn’t happy with the writing … and I read two short books, #68 and #69.
  • Social media: I want to spend LESS time on twitter and blogging—so I can get more writing done! Meh. I blogged a lot, but most were blog posts sent to me, I just had to format them. And I’ve been on and off twitter.
  • Exercising: at least 2x. My doctor said I shouldn’t exercise for a whole week after the surgery, which means I shouldn’t exercise once this week … I wanted to go, but didn’t feel good enough. My jaw and teeth (or lack of) still hurt and I can’t imagine lifting weight and running around like this. Damn my dentist for being right …

So, why my NaNo project fell apart? See, I wrote a novella last year about Valentine’s Day and shelved it. Later this year, I kept thinking about it, that I should submit to small presses and try to publish it. So I did. But then later, a sudden will to transform it into a novel hit (a total rewrite …) and I emailed the publisher with my manuscript and asked to get out of the submission queue (and I was told I was out of the queue). Then I lunged into the rewrites of that novella, turning it into a novel, during this NaNo … on Tuesday night, I got an email with a contract offer on the novella. See, the novella is great, I just would add length and one more subplot (to explain the new length). The story would be basically the same. So … I accepted the offer (here’s the announcement post) and was left without a WIP for NaNo!

While working on pre-edits on Wed and Thu, I thought about what to write next. It can be a problem when you have too many ideas. After much thought, I chose a WIP and worked on it on Fri. Though, right now, I’m not sure I’ll meet the 50k words for NaNo, especially since I’ll be visiting friends during Thanksgiving week … so, yeah, that leaves me 10 weekdays to write about 50k words. So not happening. But, this is my job and I will write anyway, right? So, let’s count the words and see how it goes …

My goals for next week:

  • Writing: Just keep writing.
  • Reading: read book #70 of the year. This challenge began with 52 books (1 per week) and I increased as I went. It’s sitting on 70 right now, but I won’t change.
  • Social media: I want to spend LESS time on twitter and blogging—so I can get more writing done!
  • Exercising: at least 4x.

On my blogs this week:

 

How was your week?

Cheers,

Comments

  2. Sooo….wow 6k!!! :D And again, congrats on the novella news Juliana! Hope you´re having a wonderful weekend, and take it easy unless you feel 100% better!

  3. Congrats on the contract!!! Sounds like a very good reason to drop out of NaNo. That’s what we have to love about ROW80 – we can change our goals when we need to. Good luck with the rewrites and your other goals!

  4. 6k in one day!? AMAZING!!!

    I ditto that your reason for not having a NANO project is totally valid and very exciting!!! I hope you have a great week and take care of yourself :)

  5. Your reason for missing your NaNo goal is so fabulous, congrats again. I think you should consider adjusting your new NaNo goal, i.e. take the daily word goal and multiply it by the number of days you are able to write on the new WIP and work towards that goal. You deserve to celebrate another success this month.

  6. well done on novella news – were their happy dancing feet around your way :) and 6000 in one day – amazing – all the best for this coming week with whatever you decide to do

  7. Sorry that your WIP for NaNo had the rug pulled out from beneath it but I’m glad to hear you got an acceptance on it. I guess it wanted to be what it was. They key here is that you chose your next idea and will give it shot. If you don’t make it, you don’t. Just have fun with it.

  8. Well, that is a new one, but awesome on the contract! I think we’ll consider you a NaNo winner either way, Juliana ;)

    Love the “Writing: Just keep writing” goal. This needs to be pasted to the top of every writers computer monitor. Have a brilliant week :)

  10. “I just thought about a girl with a bad reputation and an attractive nerd and went with it…” Tale as old as time. :-D

    Sounds fabulous JH!

  11. Well, you couldn’t have a better or more exciting reason to lose your WIP for NaNo, now could you!? Good luck anyway, and I hope you get lots of words written.