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Permalink Reply by Serena Schreiber on November 10, 2011 at 7:37am

My personal goal for November is 30,000. So today's ike every day, is 1,000 words. Tell me your goal and meet me here by midnight to share your results.

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Permalink Reply by EJ Copperfield on November 10, 2011 at 11:46am

My computer was not working for the last few days, but now it is up and running!  So I finished proofing the edtis from the editor I hired and from my Dad.  Next job is to ask my brother (the computer wiz) to show me how to convert a word doc into a PDF and then see what else Createspace wants or needs.  Later,  EJ.

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Permalink Reply by Heidi R. Moore on November 10, 2011 at 12:03pm

Wow, Serena!  That's such a great goal.  I was thinking there was no way I could do that, but I just checked my word count and it's at 12,000.  I want to set my goal to 2,000 words today, but I will be doing some editing, so I'll be lucky to get there.  I forgot to post yesterday; it was 2 a.m. before I got that blog post done....one of THOSE days.  

I'll try to be back at midnight, Serena :)

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Permalink Reply by Lauren Michelle on November 10, 2011 at 12:14pm

I started reading Susan M. Tiberghien's One Year to a Writing Life yesterday, and there are exercises to help release your creativity in different types of writing. I'm really looking forward to it. I dug up a never-used journal I'm going to use for it. My goal is to get through the first chapter today with some good journaling.

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Permalink Reply by Danielle Boonstra on November 10, 2011 at 2:48pm

Today's been fantastic! It's flowing!!  I have some concerns about where the plot is going...trying to surrender it.

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Permalink Reply by Patricia Woodside on November 10, 2011 at 9:22pm

My goal for today was two-fold: (1) At least 2k, my daily goal, which I've missed each of the last three days and (2) cross the 25k plateau.

 

I'm pleased to say I was able to do both.  I wrote 2,376 words and my overall total is now 25,106.

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Permalink Reply by Elaine Simone on November 10, 2011 at 10:01pm

Congratulations Patricia!

It must feel great to be back on track.  These are hard goals, hitting them is truly wonderful.

Over 25k wow.  Keep it up, how does that compare to your projected size?

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Permalink Reply by Patricia Woodside on November 11, 2011 at 8:13am

Thanks, Elaine!  I'm in for the 50k this month, although if I meet my target of averaging 2k per day, I should finish with 60k or more.  That's pretty good for what I imagine shall be an 80-90k novel.  I'm going to keep writing past November 30th, at least every other day, until I'm done.  My bigger goal is have an entire draft done before New Year's.

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Permalink Reply by Elaine Simone on November 11, 2011 at 8:16am

Ah thats a great goal, you're like me!  Although I'm not sure I'll meet the New Years Deadline at this point.  Best of luck, I hope it keeps flowing for you.

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Permalink Reply by Patricia Woodside on November 11, 2011 at 8:25am

And you, Elaine!  How are you doing?  Yesterday?  Overall?

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Permalink Reply by Elaine Simone on November 11, 2011 at 8:31am

I ended(at 11:40) at 20527.  I'm hoping to blow past the 25k mark myself today.  Actually I'd like to reach 30k if I can focus for enough hours to get there, but thats more a wish than a goal.

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Permalink Reply by Patricia Woodside on November 11, 2011 at 8:48am

Good for you!  Wow, a 10k target...  Can't even allow myself to imagine such.  But I do stretch on the weekends.  Last weekend, I doubled my targets to 4k.  Made 3k+ each day, and that was good enough for me. 

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