Wednesday's Writing Update: June Goals

 

Happy Wednesday!

May seemed to be a catch-up month for me. I was catching up on blog posts, emails, and more. Unfortunately, writing and editing didn't happen quite as well as I'd hoped and had me revising my production goals. Instead of working on The Loveless Princess, I'm now working on the short story collection Neighbors of Foxwick, which I hope to finish in June. As for The Loveless Princess, I hope to get back to it in August.

My June goals are as follows:

• Finish outlining Reforged, Book Two of The Fate Challenges, so I'll be ready to write it for July's Camp NaNoWriMo (a 50,000 word goal, although it'd be awesome if I can write the complete first draft of Reforged).
• Finish editing Part III of Reborn, Book One of The Fate Challenges, so I can send it to my first group of critique partners by June 30th.
• Edit Part I of Reborn, Book One of The Fate Challenges, based on my first group of critique partners' edits.
• Proofread/Format/Publish Men of Foxwick by June 17th. This fantasy short story collection should be out a few days before June 17th, but that date is the official release date.
• Write the short stories in Neighbors of Foxwick.

What are your June goals?

2013 Stats since January 1st

77,067 words written

922 pages edited

Wednesday's Writing Update: May Stats, June goals, and an acceptance

First off, please welcome Raquel Byrnes to the blog. Her guest post about the inspiration of her novel Purple Knot is here.

Yesterday marked the end of May, and thus I now have May's stats.

Submissions: 3
Rejections: 4
Acceptances: 1
Words Written: 3273

My word count for May was very, very bad. Ugh. I need to find a way to fix it this month.

And look, I have an acceptance. I'm very proud of this acceptance. My story "Folding Hope" will be published in Stories for Sendai. This is a charity anthology geared toward raising money for Japan. I have posts planned that are related to the anthology, including possibly my first vlog. So be on the look out for that coming later in June.

As for June, I do have some goals. I have a few short stories I would like to write. I need to get back to rewriting Virtuoso and continue with edits. Plus I am going to start keeping track of how many pages I edit a month. It'll give me an idea on what I'm doing on that front.

As for Virtuoso, chapters 1-5 are back from my critique partners. Everyone is loving the story, thinks the pace is good, and has remarked on its professional quality. There are things I need to change/tweak here and there, but so far, so good. I hope to edit chapters 6-10 within the next couple weeks and get them to my CPs and rewrite chapters 11-15. I think the five chapters at a time thing is working pretty well. My goal is to query agents by October, but that means I need to have the rewrite, critiques back, and edits finished by September, so I can do a last proofread/polish.

In other words, I need to get back to writing, rewriting, and editing. *laughs*

So, what news do you have?