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Oct. 27th, 2014
I have a way? Is that better than a plan?
Oct. 27th, 2014 01:43 pmOkay, so I think I've decided what I'm going to do as far as Next Year's Writing Plan.
One short story per month. I will have extant outlines so I can hit the ground running on the first of each month and bang out the first draft at a NaNo pace. Once I have the story drafted, I'll go back to the novel while editing the short. The goal on the novel will be a thousand words per day. I may take a once-a-week break, but we'll see how I feel after a month of doing that.
At the end of June, I will evaluate this system. I think six months is a fair amount of time to see how it's working for me and shift it so that it works better.
And I will be flexible enough that if a call for subs comes in for something that really pings me (or for an editor I'm especially fond of), I'll scribble something for that, even if I've already done a story that month.
This means that I'm going to take the next two months and hammer out better outlines for both novels I have in mind, and a few shorts as well.
It may be time to break out the Scrivener.
One short story per month. I will have extant outlines so I can hit the ground running on the first of each month and bang out the first draft at a NaNo pace. Once I have the story drafted, I'll go back to the novel while editing the short. The goal on the novel will be a thousand words per day. I may take a once-a-week break, but we'll see how I feel after a month of doing that.
At the end of June, I will evaluate this system. I think six months is a fair amount of time to see how it's working for me and shift it so that it works better.
And I will be flexible enough that if a call for subs comes in for something that really pings me (or for an editor I'm especially fond of), I'll scribble something for that, even if I've already done a story that month.
This means that I'm going to take the next two months and hammer out better outlines for both novels I have in mind, and a few shorts as well.
It may be time to break out the Scrivener.
