On fighting My Inner Control Freak...

The blog link I posted in my last post has actually helped me push forward. Two days now I have hit my set goal. Albeit later than I wanted to in the night, but I still stuck with it and pushed through the difficult parts. Sometimes it is really hard to battle that inner control freak though. Constantly I had to remind myself, this is the first draft. What matters is getting it down on paper. Remember Rayvenne...first draft will not be publishing ready, even if you want it to be, silly girl!

Well, 2 days down, 41 to go.

Also, I have passed the 20k mark. So I am not even halfway yet. Still writing 20k words feels like an accomplishment. :)

Goodnight!

-Rayvenne

Birthday Cake & Bicycles

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