Progress report

Note: coming up in our deep POV series this week: Getting into our characters’ heads in two different ways!

Well, we’re almost a week into Tristi Pinkston’s July Writing Challenge. I admitted when we started that my goals were rather lofty, especially given that I’ll be spending the rest of the month with family in town. Plus, my library due date is fast approaching. So I’m revising my goals a bit, and reporting on the progress I’ve made so far.

1. Edit 350 pages of my MS:
   • Go through my writing partner’s notes on the last ten chapters. Down to the last five!
   • Go through the second half of the book last eight chapters again to make all my planned changes, add two scenes one scene to go! and cut out the parts people skip
   • Get as many chapters to my critique partners as they can stand.
2. Read my library books:
   • Bedford Square (Anne Perry comes very highly recommended—and this counts for the Summer Reading Thing.) Read, now to review.
   • Death in Holy Orders (Ten guesses why.)
   • The Plot Thickens: 8 Ways to Bring Fiction to Life Skimmed. Some chapters might really be useful enough to read again, especially the chapter on “Transcendency.”
   • The rest of the books will go on my “to be checked out again later” list.
3. Read at least one book off my Summer Reading Thing list.
4. Continue to mull over the exact plot, premise and motifs for my next WIP. (If I’m feeling really ambitious—or, y’know, stuck on a long road trip—even outline one book or the full story arc.) (Mulling away!)
5. Stay current on critique partners’ edits.

Even if you’re not part of the challenge, how is your writing (or your vacation ) coming along?