My Weakly Goals: The same: 5 new pages and 5 polished a day. Until I achieve it regularly, that will be my goal.

Congratulations to Sheena! Woot! She wears the crown this week, achieving it with the hard-earned words "The End".

It doesn't really help in this situation to have a diversion. The newer story is SO much easier to write--and more fun. I keep opening that one instead of Book Three.

I WROTE A NOVEL!!!

Yay for finishing what you started.

Now the stressful part. Now I have to worry about commas, and correct tense, and not starting all my sentences with She.

First and foremost: Congrats, shimiqua! Finishing a novel brings with it an incredible rush, so enjoy it. Except, as you will eventually find out, the truly stressful part is writing the damned agent query letter. I'm having a blast with mine...dripping with sarcasm.

GOALS
1) Finish the crits I've started. I refuse to disrespect my fellow writers by doing that task at a time when I cannot concentrate fully on their works, so I'm hoping they accept this as the reason why I've not gotten back to them yet.

2) Back to work on my mainstream-ish novel. The digital audio files are starting pile up.

3) Finish the aforementioned agent cover letter for "Metzgerhund Empire."

That should do it for now.

S!
S!...C!

As far as it goes for me, I have excellent news and dissapointing news.

Dissapointing news was due to the release of Halo Wars and my nerdy personality, I was distracted to the point where I only wrote 3000ish words and about...half to just over a third of the chapter. I plan on finishing it up today and tomorrow if I can though.

The excellent news has a bit of a story to it though. Well, basically, my student teacher in my creative writing class and i came up with a good social experiment to teach my rude class about respecting people's work. We gave them the first three chapters of my MS, put a fake name on it and had them read it. The goal was basically to let them ignore it and make jerks of themselves (while getting good feedback from the good kids). Surprisingly though, the majority of the class hardly made a peep!

Then, after it was done, a lot of people were saying how they never liked Sci-fi but they really liked this and that they wanted to read more. I had a few critics but nothing huge. There were those jerks who were rude but they felt like idiots when we told the class it was mine. When we did though, so many jaws dropped and I was flooded with comments about how great it was. I know they're not as knowledgable on what makes a good book but the fact that the metaphorical "common man" liked the begining of the story without even knowing it was mine makes me feel really happy. Makes me feel like maybe someday I'll get this thing published

I know that was a mouthful though so I'll make my goals brief

1) FINISH CHAPTER 5. Bout dern time!

2) Start Chapter 6 and get at least halfway through. I mean, I AM on spring break so i should be able to finish. We'll see though.

And then, after I wrote all that, I wrote two more words:
"The End"

Last week: Finally recovering from the flu that knocked me and most of my family off our feet. I spent most of last week playing catch-up, including some critiquing (which was fun--what awesome writers I meet here on Hatrack). I spent one sick day rereading the first novel I wrote and I was pleased to say that I still like it.

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Well, I know I already posted here, but I felt I needed to breathe a metaphorical sigh of relief and say I finished that stupid chapter. The end turned out better than I thought and I will definitely be going back to do a major overhaul, but I can finally move on.