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Saturday, November 6, 2010

CAP-athon Weekly Blog -- How Is Everyone Doing? It's Time To Check In

Okay. Here are the new changes to CAP-athon. Hopefully these will make it easier.

I'm going to post on my blog once a week on Saturdays, which will extend CAP-athon until December 4th. I hope this will help avoid the confusion of which day's blog post to comment on. Now it will simply be "the week's" blog. Also, for those who can't post daily about their writing progress, goals, etc., perhaps they can stop in at least once a week. Sound good?

I've been a bit under the weather so I'm not making much progress this week. But, slow as it is, I'm hanging in there. I hope you are too.

So....please feel free to comment all week long. Let us know your progress, word count, page count, goals for the week....whatever. Post as often as you wish, but let's keep CAP-athon in full swing and see what we can accomplish.

20 comments:

  1. My Introduction To Writing The Novel class begins next week at COM so I've been down in the trenches putting together an updated syllabus and gathering my in-class packets. I really want to work on the YA and get it finished, but I think I may have a problem with pacing and need to cut some stuff out. It's just not "moving" as fast as I'd like.

    If anyone has any tips, please let me know. I've tried everything I know thus far, but it doesn't seem to be suiting me.

    That's what I'll be working on this coming week. Figuring out how to make it more suspenseful and adjusting the pace. I want to get this booger to completion!

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  2. Okay, here I am again. I did a hundred or so tweaking, just not brain capable of actual thought yesterday. Hopefully knock some out today. Will report later. I hope. *salutes*

    Hope you're feeling better. {{HUGS}}

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  3. Okay, after turning off as much as I could (couldn't find the shut off button on the child, but that's okay), I managed a solid 6400 today. Still a lot to do on this story. I'm stopping at 40.9 (really 41K, but I'm || much short. LOL)

    So what's everyone else doing?

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  4. It's Monday morning and I forgot to post yesterday's total. I did 3600, and honestly hope to have this one done this week. There's still a lot of story to write though. Hopefully another good day today.

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  5. Let's see...

    Friday, I submitted the romance novel I was revising. I also submitted the short story.

    Saturday I can't remember if I got any writing or revising done; I took my daughter to a museum, so was gone most of the day. However, I did submit another short story which had just been rejected from one antho; I saw a submission call for a different antho, so decided to give it a shot.

    Sunday, I was doing housework-type stuff most of the day, so again didn't make much progress, but I got about 300 words done on the YA revise/resubmit I'm working on, and revised about a page of a contemporary novella that I'm doing a revise/resubmit on.

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  6. Great on the submissions, Karenna! Good luck!

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  7. Congrats on the submissions, Karenna. Sounds like you've been writing like mad. Keep up the great work. You're keeping me inspired, that's for sure!

    Most of my writing was revising a syllabus for an upcoming class and "tweaking" a kiss scene for a YA novel I'm writing. I didn't count pages, but I woke up the other morning and realized there was not enough sizzle between my H/H--enough to suit me, that is. So I fixed the problem and made her more "aware" of him. :-)

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  8. Diana,

    I'm both amazed and awed at the amount of writing you get done in one day. Either I'm a slow writer or you burn the midnight oil and then some!

    Either way, I'm inspired by your posts, too. Makes me really want to just throw myself back into the book and finish it. Sheesh. I'm torn. Finish the smaller projects or just finish the novel.

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  9. :blush: LOL

    When I get a good groove on, I can write for hours straight, which is like authorly-heaven in this house. I don't have an EDJ either. Right now, I'm only focusing on one story, but the sooner it gets done, the next story awaits. LOL When I have someone to report to, I tend to write in a more focused fashion too. If my friends are hounding me, it's a marathon. :)

    Today has been much slower so far. I had edits come in, but I'll be home for about two hours alone tonight (I think I just heard several cheers :) )

    I need to reevealuate the current scene, but I think I'll be moving forward on it. I'm kind of shocked at how much story there is in this one, but onward. :)

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  10. And now, a casualty. I moved over the keyboard (still learning the laptop) and hotkeys closed without saving. Lost about 700 from today. Little tweaks and about three pages.

    I know what command closed the file, but I was moving too fast and hit the don't save button and poof! Gone. *sigh* Oh well, I wasn't sure the scene was doing what the story needed anyway, but geez. I'd have liked to have made that decision myself. :P stupid laptop. Not sure I'm going to write more today/tonight. That's so frustrating.

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  11. Between tweaks and a small addition, 2K yesterday. After a proof read, onward.

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  12. Thanks, Diana and Kimberly. And great work both of you on your projects!

    Monday I wrote about 500 words and revised 5 pages in the YA revise/resubmit. Those 500 wrapped up the part that I needed to entirely rewrite, so now it's just a matter of revising the rest of the novel. Hoping to have that done next week. I also revised/rewrote about 3 pages on the contemporary novella I'm doing a revise/resubmit on.

    Yesterday, I revised about 10 pages in the YA and rewrote a page and a half in my contemporary novella. I also set up a YA book signing for the day after Thanksgiving and did some online advertising for that. (Which isn't a project to finish, but it's writing work...)

    This morning, I dug out an urban fantasy novel that was rejected by a major publisher over the summer and submitted a query + sample chapters of it to an agent. Right now I'm working on the contemporary novella.

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  13. 800 yesterday. Bad mojo day. :( Time to get my groove on.

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  14. Yesterday, I got a chapter (about 6 pages) revised/rewritten on the contemporary novella, and a 10-page chapter revised in the YA. And I made posters for my book signing.

    I got an acceptance this morning on a stand-alone short I submitted on Halloween, so I'm really excited about that :) (Not saying which publisher till I get the actual contract.)

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  15. Congrats Karenna! Good job on the revisions.

    I had to do a CAR (Whoops! Been slacking) Hope to write in a few.

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  16. Congratulations, Karenna on the acceptance! You'll have to let us know when it's "official."

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  17. Got in 2300 yesterday. Been updating a few things today, and it's grocery day. Maybe writing later, but it's always iffy on shopping day. :(

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  18. 23oo. That's fabulous. I've been sidelined with a family emergency but I'm percolating the ideas for changes in my YA novel. Perhaps next week will be a better writing time.

    Take care and thanks for commenting, Diana!

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  19. No writing today. All edits.

    You take care of your family, Kimberly.

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  20. Thank you, Diana, for posting. But edits are a good thing--at least they're productive.

    I would love to work on my YA tonight but it's late and I think I need to get extra strength for what's coming on Monday. Major surgery for SIL.

    However, I'm going to try to incorporate some new elements into the book.

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