Robynettely

O kay, I give up on ever actually achieving my goals with this month, it being more than a week past over. Here's what I did.  1st draft “Water Leopard”. Had roughly 60K at the start of the month and wanted it over. Now it’s done. Which is good, because my idea was to do exercises instead, because I have plenty of first drafts and I’m not sure they get better. This will increase my editing time and focus I hope… I’ve started with the Season 11 Writing Excuses exercises. Though in the interest of my own sanity I also devoted about six days to my karate essay. Editing “The Cicatrix Diary”. Ignored “Volcano”. Did 2 nd draft. The writing excuses exercises were useful on this actually. “Labyrinth Moon”. Changed the name and did three drafts, and I’m so close to calling it done. “Imp Face”. Writing Excuses got me to revisit this one too. Connecting Did a self-editing workshop. Didn’t really connect. Circulating nothing but I have an excuse. It...

“Skills Finder 2.0” by Tom Rath. This seems like cheating or list-padding somehow, but my list needs padding so I’m going with it. I read this for work. All 1200 of us at my workplace were told to read it, and I wasn’t paying $27 for the kindle edition so I got it out of the library.Then I paid about $20 to do the test. “Linger” by Maggie Stiefvater. She’s fabulous. “1776” by David McCollough. Apparently I asked for this for Christmas years ago, though I don’t remember. Anyway, my sister gave it to me for summer Christmas, so I read it. It was way better than I expected! Somehow although I grew up in the greater Boston area, I was unaware that the British had holed up in Boston and were besieged there. Also, the clothes. Whoever painted the cover clearly had not read the book, because uniforms were not ubiquitous for the Continental army.