The day is here, people! Time to decide your word count goal and write!
Anyone feeling unprepared? Let me just say right now that you are most definitely not alone. I still have character development to finish with my heroine, Kate. My hero, the harder of the two, is ready and waiting for my attention, however, so that's a relief. And writing the first article today made me realize just what an undertaking this whole project is. Oh my...I'm really starting to question my sanity now, but oh well, let's have fun anyway! Woohoo! :) That article will go up directly after this post, and I hope it will help at least one person; if it does even that it will have been worth the time it took to write and my own feelings of inadequacy while I was writing it, and perhaps give the evil voice in the back of my mind that whispered, "Aw, why do you even try, Liz? You can't help them; you hardly know what you're doing yourself," something to think about. *crosses fingers*
Anyway, moving on. A good thing to do might be to leave a comment on this post to let us know what you want your word count goal to be. You don't have to do this, but having supportive people behind you might help when the going gets rough, as it's bound to do at some point. Going to go leave my comment now and post the article, so happy writing to all, and to all a good night! :)
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My word count goal for MOTM is 25000. I wanted to make it 45000, but it's just going to be too crazy for that. Just wish I had a hope of finishing the story in a month's time...oh well.
Blessings,
Liz
I'm not doing a word count. I want to do seven short stories by the end of the month. :D I changed my plan.
Don't you dare listen to that evil voice! It has absolutely *no clue* what it is talking about it or maybe it does so it is deliberately lying! So don't pay at any attention whatsoever!!
Now I can't let you outdo me on word count so I am going to have at least do 25000 and that will be on the book. I probably will only be doing it on weekends since weekdays will be working on the blog which is fun, fun, fun!
Namarie, God bless, Melinyel, Your fellow scribe, Piptane :)
Ooh, I don't know how much I can write! Is it allowed to bump your word count up as you go? Right now I'm going to go with 15000, but I may attempt to go higher as the month plays out. Is that okay? Anyone know?
That sounds like a great plan, Kendra. I'm going to do that myself if I reache 25K. Let us know how it goes!
And a note of apology here on Allie's behalf: I didn't think of this, but the rules should make allowances for those who wish to do anthologies of short stories or poetry, so in that case, to have a story or poem count instead of a word count is fine; I'll officially add that to the blurb at the bottom of the page at some point. Sorry, guys; this is the first year, still haven't gotten all the kinks worked out, but we'll get there.
Blessings,
Liz
I've done my first 3149 words! I'm working on the book so have much done already and have to get up to 287311 if I want to get my additional 25000 in. Go Musers!
Namarie, God bless, Your Piptane :)
*scream* I'm late! I'm so sorry, but midterms are coming, and it's been one thing after the next.
*deep breath* Okay...I'll shoot for 15k words this month. I still can't believe I missed the first day. I'm sorry, Liz...
Ah, well, off to write.
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