#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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4/29
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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…





Very cool Aric! : )
Keep it up, mister. I’ll be harassing you otherwise.
LOL, I can’t stop now!
Do you have a Facebook fan page for your site?
I have pages for Neighbor’s Basement and the Maraude Series, but I’m getting ready to combine all of them into a KPWorks publishing page