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Morning all!

Firstly, well done Marelle and Claire for last week.  Claire, I'm keeping everything crossed for you and I have that cyber champers by my side ready to pop.  Marelle, if you need someone to read for you, send me a message via here.  As long as you don't need it back in too much of a hurry, I'd be happy to read for you.

Well, I met, and exceeded a little, my weekly word count.  So, I'm happy at the moment - and feeling pretty good from my little holiday.

Mdx

 

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Oops... and welcome Ketesh! 

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Well done Merryd.

I feel like I'm starting to build up some momentum now. I've set myself a deadline for when I want to have this draft I'm working on finished and so far so good. I'm well on track and maybe even a little bit ahead. So I may seem a little self-congratulatory at the moment. It's very different from # 1 which is proving to be a good thing. Even after so short a time I'm getting perspective on #1 that I had lost when I was buried so deeply in it. Once I'm done with this I plan to make another pass over # 1, then once I've done that I'll probably look at draft readers. Hopefully, Merryd, that offer will still be open when that happens.

You know, right now I can practically hear Fiona telling me off for endless-rewrite-syndrome. I'll stop fussing sometime, I swear! It's just not ready!

Have a spectacular week, all.

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I hope my cybervoice nags you constantly! there are dangers in constant re-writing...at some point, let go - frightening but feels good. I've had a busy past week. I read so many Year 12 assignments, I've made them part of my working day. And I'm this year's judge for The Advertiser Young Writers Awards so I've been reading loads of manuscripts from aspiring young writers. But making my word count remains top priority and I'm now 22,000 words into book 2 of Valisar with a very achievable daily word count that allows me to do my editing on the crime and children's books as well as juggle the other stuff that comes my way like the awards judging. If you keep it very achievable, you'll almost always feel triumphant by day's end. Glad everyone's in a very positive headspace. Happy writing all. F

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hello, I decided to set myself a weekly target of 1000 words.  hopefully I can keep to that, I love my uni but it gets in the way of writing!  I've just finished researching the trojan war and disecting it into pieces and finding out what Homer got right as in we can find evidence in history and what he made up to entertain the reader.

off track again, anyway I'm currently working on an Egyptian story.

Ketesh

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'Last time I was this bored I took prisoners!' Vala Mal Doran

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Hi Everyone and welcome Ketesh.

Well I'm excited have stuck to the daily word count for the last two weeks and #2 is really starting to come into shape. I have to be honest I did promise myself that I wasn't going to even look at #1 again for at least another month but did drag it out on the weekend and did a few tidy ups and started to rewrite my synopsis again. Actually I've set myself a deadline to send through the first chapter to Friday Pitch (Allen & Unwin) by the first Friday in August. Speaking of, Fiona can you tell me when they ask for the first chapter, I am assuming that does mean actual Chapter 1 and not a Prologue (that's how mine MS starts). I know it's a bit of a dippy question but I don't want to make a bad first impression better to do that here among friends!!!!

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Actually it's not a dippy question - it's valid and also obviously confusing for everyone. I think you should check with Allen & Unwin. My take would be that they would want to see your opening....because this is what a reader would see. And they would judge your manuscript on your opening gambit so to speak. As far as I'm concerned that's your prologue and not your chapter one. F

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Hi everyone!

I'm late as usual...I just can't seem to get it together enough for a Tuesday!  One good thing is that I get to read everyone's comments before I add to it, which if I get in first ( has happened all of once I think,) I don't get to read them until the next week usually because I don't go online much.  Anyway, getting back to the point  glad everyone is going well this week, I'm going to have to rain on the parade and confess to doing absolutely zip!  It's the last week of the school holidays and my house has been overrun with kids, both of my sons had two friends over today, and my daughter was sick with the flu and has a horrid sty in the eye making her look like the elephant man!   I hit the nurofen around 5pm when I finally dropped my eldest off to his part-time job. 

I am determined to do better next week with my writing when the little blighters return to school (and daycare)!

Happy writing all,

Claire x