I Bet You
Mornin', Mavenland! This weekend, while giving a workshop on Websites & Online Marketing to the STAR chapter of RWA, I entered into a friendly little bet.
(Or possibly a snarling, I-will-get-you, just-you-wait-and-see competition... hard to say.)
With challenge in her eyes, a friend of mine informed me that she bet she could write her novel by the end of February. (Yanno... 5 weeks from now.)
As I hadn't yet recovered from the heart palpitations sparked by my own mid-March deadline, I opened my mouth and said, "Oh yeah? I bet I can finish mine first."
To which my friend casually responded, "You're on."
Ack! It's on!!!
How about you? What are you working on? Got any deadlines, self-imposed or otherwise? How are things going with that?
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Hmmm...how about some definitions first? Like, how many words are we talking here? Catcher in the Rye or War and Peace
Yes, I know y'all are tired of hearing how I spent my summer non-vacation (writing one 230 pp. novel in two weeks), but I adduce it only to show what's possible if you forego everything but occasional food and sleep. Five weeks sounds like an aeon to me.
As to the other part of the question, WIP, the first novel has led to three more in the series, which are now done and in the polishing stage. My own little Forsyte saga, as it were.
Long story short, I plan to relax and watch from the sidelines as you and your friend duke it out. Good luck to you both!
No deadlines here. I haven't even really settled on which new project I'm going to work on now, so I'm revising one of my other books and working on a story I never finished.
Good luck with your bet. Sounds like fun. =o)
My agent just sent my option book proposal off to my (er, our!) editor. He has six weeks to respond.
During that six weeks, I'd like to get the book to roughly the halfway point, which means writing 5k per week from now through March 12.
Think I can do it?
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