#WIP500

Okay, now a little while into this and I am still staying ahead of schedule.  This is what I have needed all along.   This and my Critique Partner.  Which, by the way, I still don’t have a Crit Partner for Maraude.  It’ll be a job because you’ll be making sure I stay on track for the whole 30+ novel story arc, as well as the main plot and sub plots in the book.  Sorry Stage is already taken…  

Now for what this whole #WIP500 thing is.  It is a twitter based community, tracked in the software of your choice by the ‘hashtag’ or #WIP500.  WIP of course is writer-speak for Work In Progress.  And we are supposed to write at least 500 words per day for the next year.  Because of Arica’s birthday this year (leap year, duh), we have 366 days to write, putting us at 184,000 words by New Years Eve of 2012.  If the world lasts that long —-  o.O

LOL

Anyway, you can still sign up and do your best to catch up at Cara Michael’s Blog.  Once signed up, that little popout box on the side of the screen on her blog is where you put the link you signed up under, your link number (found on the participants tag; drop down menu under WIP500 tab), and your word count for the day.  There is a box in case you have multiple days to post at a time.   She updates manually every night at 10 or so Eastern time.  She says to update at least once per week or she will remove your name, she’ll do it too!  LOL

DATE       TITLE                          WORDCOUNT                 TOTAL

1/1              Astronomical                  4906                               4906

1/2              Astronomical                     510                               5416

1/3              Astronomical                  1029                               6445

1/4              Astronomical                  1509                               8018

1/5              Astronomical                  1403                               9421

1/6              Astronomical                    377                               9798

1/7             Astronomical                   2349                             12147

1/8              Astronomical                  1725                             13872

1/9              Astronomical                  1296                              15168

1/10           Astronomical                     675                             15843

1/11           Astronomical                   1257                             17100

1/12           Astronomical                   3227                            20327

1/13           Astronomical                   1408                            21735

1/14           Astronomical                   1048                            22783

1/15           Astronomical                   1283                            24066

1/16           Astronomical                     808                            24874

1/17          Astronomical                    1041                            25915

1/18          Astronomical                    4038                           29953

1/19          Astronomical                    1628                            31581

1/20         Astronomical                    1196                            32777

1/21          Astronomical                    4447                           37224

1/22          Astronomical                    4421                            41645

Astro is complete in rough at 77K+ Starting edit now

1/23          Badger Down                     2473                            44118

1/24          Badger Down                     1848                             45966

1/25  No writing – research books ordered and read on Kindle – Rory Miller’s Violence – a writer’s guide and Rayne Hall’s Writing Fight Scenes

1/26          Badger Down                       749                             46715

1/27          Badger Down                     1615                             48330

1/28          Badger Down                    5777                             54107

1/29          Badger Down                     3528                             57635

1/30          Badger Down                     1735                             59360

1/31          Badger Down                        729                             60089

January sees the completion of Astronomical’s rough draft and up to Chapter 13 of Badger Down.  If I can keep up this pacing.  Charisma should be close to complete by the end of February!  Three months ahead of schedule!

2/1            Badger Down                     1146                              61235

2/2            BD research                         786                              62021

2/3           Badger Down                        742                              62763

2/4           Badger Down                      1588                              64343

2/5           Badger Down                      3947                             68290

2/6           Badger Down                        769                              69059

2/7           Badger Down                     4138                              73197

2/8           Badger Down                        508                             73705

2/9           Badger Down                      1518                              75223

2/10        Badger Down                       1351                             76574

2/11         Badger Down                      1852                              78426

2/12         Badger Down                        752                              79178

2/13         Badger Down                        767                              79945

2/14         Badger Down                      1040                              80985

2/15         Badger Down                      1804                              82789

2/16         Badger Down                     2088                               84877

2/17   research day for Charisma – 0 words for WIP     84877

2/18   research day for Charisma – 0 words for WIP     84877

2/19         Badger Down                     4368                               89245

2/20         Badger Down                     1218                               90463

2/21         Badger Down                     2282                               92745

2/22         Badger Down                     1878                               94623

2/23         Badger Down rough draft complete at 48K words

Working in Laura Graves’ backstory now to kick up the count

2/24  Outlining Charisma and work on Badger cover   0 word count

2/25  Built Badger manuscript for print – 0 word count for day

2/26  Badger Down                             1848                               96471

2/28  Stage prep for rewrite;Stage          908                               97379

2/29 Kicker’s B-day! Stage                    790                               98169

Goal = 60K – 80K Hopefully finished with Charisma and well into outlining New Blood and Trio

3/1  Stage                                           762                               98931

3/2  Stage                                           785                               99716

3/3  Stage                                         1115                              100831

3/4  Stage                                           688                              101519

3/5  Stage                                           811                              102330

3/6  Stage                                           769                              103099

3/7  Stage                                           984                              104083

3/8  Stage                                            811                              104894

3/9  Stage                                            931                              105825

3/10  Stage                                         882                              106707

3/11  Stage                                          806                              107513

3/12  Stage                                          782                              108295

3/13  Badger Down                         1310                             109605

3/14  Stage                                         1074                            110679

3/15  Stage                                         1302                             111981

3/16  Stage                                           812                              112793

3/17  Stage                                           873                             113666

3/18  Stage                                         1470                             115136

3/19  Stage                                           756                              115892

3/20  SunDay                                      775                             116667

3/21  Stage                                           798                              117465

3/22 Astronomical edit                 850                              118315

3/23 Badger Down edit                   934                              119249

3/24 Badger Down edit                   935                              120184

3/25 Badger Down edit                   786                              120970

3/26 Badger Down edit                   820                              121790

3/27 Badger Down edit                1026                               122816

3/28 Badger Down and Stage edits  779                        123595

3/29 Stage                                            973                              124568

3/30 Wyldheart edit                        887                              125455

3/31  Badger Down edit                1045                              126500

Goals for this month are the final edit on Astro and publish in April, Getting Stage to a re-release stage, starting Charisma and outlining New Blood and Trio.

Did not meet all the goals.  Charisma got a POV change and is outlined. New Blood is on the drawing board in a mind map stage.  Stage halted production, and Astro will see a production set back to the original pub date of July 11th.  Some small but important bits were caught by critique partners that need correction in May.  Though, I am really close to seeing a head way in reorganizing the five stories set for the anthology.

4/1 Badger Down edit                    1159                     127659

4/2 Badger Down edit                      819                     12478

4/3 Badger Down edit                      753                    129231

4/4 Badger Down edit                      894                    130125

4/5 Badger Down edit                      808                    130933

4/6 Badger Down edit                      997                    131930

4/7 Badger Down edit                     903                    132833

4/8                 NOTE!  Today almost had a big zero, but a two hour difference in my timezone and 750words.com (and a hand slap by several #WIP500′ers including Cara) caused me to stay up until 2 AM to finish a Badger Down edit

894                   133727

4/9 Badger Down edit                     795                   134522

4/10 Badger Down edit                 1114                   135636

4/11 Badger Down edit                   987                   136623

4/12 Wyldheart                                 883                   137506

4/13 Wyldheart                                778                    138284

4/14 Wyldheart                                 906                   139190

4/15 Badger Down edit                   800                  139990

4/16 Badger Down edit                   782                  140772

4/17 Badger Down edit                   763                  141535

4/18 Badger Down edit                 1029                  142564

4/19 Badger Down edit                    751                  143315

4/20 Badger Down edit                   754                  144069

4/21 Maraude side story                890                  144959

4/22 Maraude side story               767                  145726

4/23 Maraude side story                762                  146488

4/24 Maraude side story              1463                  147951

4/25 Dale’s Korea (anth)                  930                 148881

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5/1    Goals for May:  Anthology “The Keystone Anthologies: Tales From The Back Burner” will hit smashwords by May 8th (another of those illusive dates that you will have to wait for Maraude’s third book to find out)  It may not be as big as I had originally hoped but the full shorts stand by themselves already, I was just going to make them longer.  Charisma should have a rough started and Astro will be back in a second mechanical.  Badger is off to be hacked on by the crit partner!  It will be bloody I assure you…