Most of Sunday afternoon was spent with my family in celebration of my mother's 62nd birthday, then I took a quick spin around the neighborhood with my best friend on our new bicycles. By the time I was back home it was already late, but I still made time to write. You see, there is now only about a month and a half left before NaNoWriMo and I want to have my first draft of "Mistaken" completed before then. With what I have finished, I need to be hitting approx 1,090 words per day to reach my goal of 65,000 words by Oct 31st.
Today I hit my goal, which felt great. Seeing as I need to try and reach 50k words in November for NaNoWriMo this will be a good warm up. So, to finish off 2010 with a bang, here are my writing plans
Now-Oct 31st
1,090 words/day
November
approx 1,667 words/day
December
Edit/2nd draft of Mistaken
January
Submit MS to Editor
Revisions/formatting for print and ebook
February
Submit for printing / eBook
Order proofs
Final corrections
I think that leaves me reasonable time to perfect Mistaken and build up more of a platform both online and locally. I would love to know how any other indie authors that have gone through this process once already have set up their time lines for editing and such. I found a great article on Elizabeth Spann Craig's Mystery Writing is Murder Blog regarding drafts and editing. Anyone feeling daunted by the process of going through editing should definitely take a gander at it.
There is such a wealth of knowledge to be had within the writing community online and I have enjoyed chatting members of the community. As I get further into this process I hope to meet many more people.
-Rayvenne
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