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Posted by GZ (Member # 1374) on :

I don't know about everyone else, but writing these goals down is helping me finish them.

So on with June...

1. Draft 20k words on my novel or else!

2. Have a full story concept outlined for the next First Line submission.

3. Participate in at least two more flash challenges.

Posted by Three Minute Egg (Member # 2523) on :

1 - finish my novel
2 - find a job

(These should look familiar, since they are the same from the "end of May" post)

Posted by Robyn_Hood (Member # 2083) on :

Ah, GZ, you beat me to it! Glad these things are helpful to someone other than me.

Anyways, on to the goals.

By the end of June I will...

1. Develop at least one flash story and submit it, somewhere.

2. Go have a good time at my sister's wedding and have fun relaxing on the beach for a week!

3. Write at least one postcard flash story and send it to someone.

Posted by MCameron (Member # 2391) on :

By the end of June:

Do the final revisions of "The Toppled Towers" and send it off!

Revise and submit "A Convocation of Clowns".

Participate in the flash challenges.

Rewrite "The Traveling Puppet Show", hopefully in time to submit to FWG.

Work on background/worldbuilding/characters for novel.

Consistently make time for writing every day!

--Mel

Posted by Dandelion (Member # 2582) on :

Draft first chapter of as-yet-unnamed novel.

Name the novel

Crit something from F&F.

Post something to F&F.

Participate in a Flash.

(My "by end of May" was to register and post to Hatrack. I squeaked it.)

Lisa

Posted by Ahavah (Member # 2599) on :

Hmm...Public Accountability...I'm getting nervous.

1. Make sure I get daily meditation/prayer time followed by at least 30 minutes of writing.

2. Write/work on at least one poem per day

3. Read more short stories/short-short stories

4. Flash Challenges

5. Draft Reiki I worksheets

Posted by autumnmuse (Member # 2136) on :

My June goals:

1. Participate in Flash Challenges every week. This is a no brainer. I'm addicted, and it would be very hard for me to give them up, so I'm not sure that counts as a goal.

2. Choose which story of the three I'm considering to submit to WOTF by no later than June 5.

3. Write that puppy! Rewrite that puppy! Get critiques on it! Write it again! et cetera until June 20th.

4. Get it in the mail to WotF by June 20th. (The deadline for them to receive it this quarter is June 30, and I want to account for the postal system.)

5. This is not a writing goal, but it is important to me: get my housecleaning caught up to the point where I can have people drop in unexpectedly by June 8th. If I set a specific date maybe it will actually happen.

Posted by Monolith (Member # 2034) on :

Here goes:

Keep trying to write three pages a week, on any of the three stories I have going now.

Does it count if I rewrote the first three pages the other day towards my EOM(end of May) goal?

-Bryan-

Posted by cvgurau (Member # 1345) on :

Here's to hoping...

Spend more time on my WIP.

Finish at least 2 short stories. (As they're half-done already, you'd think that wouldn't sound so masochistic.)

Finish reading at least 3 long novels.

Posted by franc li (Member # 3850) on :

Overhaul the front end of my novel (again! Sheesh) and post it on F&F (again!).

Um, once I've done that I may post another goal. I guess I will let Survivor read my first five chapters.

Posted by Kickle (Member # 1934) on :

June is always busy for me, so I'm keeping my goals simple. Keep up with rewriting my shortstory "Calvatica" while I'm workshopping it. Continue to brainstorm and research my new short story "Iseau" so I can write a first draft during my vacation in July.

Posted by Robyn_Hood (Member # 2083) on :

Well, only three days in and I can already slash item #1 off my list. Moments ago I submitted a re-worked and much expanded version of my flash #8 story - Eulogy - to "The Pedestal Magazine". If I feel ambitious I might try to re-work another flash before I leave for Carolina -- well, maybe by the end of the month.

Posted by Pyre Dynasty (Member # 1947) on :

Write everyday
Don't chicken out of the workshops I've signed up for.
Finish Rique.

Posted by Minister (Member # 2213) on :

1. Participate in 3 out of 4 flash challenges this month (that's going to be harder than it sounds, in spite of my serious addiction).
2. Get "The New Leagues" in the mail (last month's story from my sub group).
3. Get "Baked Crab" (probably retitled) reworked based on the crits received here (haven't even had time to look at them yet) and in the mail.
4. Determine next flash piece to develop and submit; consider contests for this one.
5. (nonfiction) Develop and query another magazine article, preferably to a new mag.

Posted by shadowynd (Member # 2077) on :

Okay, I'll jump in too.

1. Thorough house cleaning
2. Three newsletters (one is virtually done now)
3. Participate in at least three of Liberty Hall's flash challenges, preferably all
4. Rewrite/edit at least four shorts
5. Submit at least two shorts
6. Find a full time job

Posted by Shendülféa (Member # 2408) on :

I've been gone a while, but...whatever.

Anyway, I will:

1. Finish reading the book my friend let me borrow.
2. Start reading the four books I bought way back in January.
3. Finish my "Shethdyn" rewrite.
4. Finish another chapter in my novel.

Posted by Jeraliey (Member # 2147) on :

Everything I said I'd do by the end of May. Except graduating. I did that already.

::slinks away::

Posted by ParanoidRook on :

By the end of June I will...

- Finish thinking up the mileau for my amazingly boring book.

- Write entire plot outline for my tremendously unsuccessful attempt at sci-fi.

- Write drafts for first four chapters of my intensely unappealing book.

- Pat myself on the back for being so optimistic from the start.

Posted by MCameron (Member # 2391) on :

quote:
Revise and submit "A Convocation of Clowns".

Done! Now, on to the rest of the list...

--Mel

Posted by Keeley (Member # 2088) on :

By the end of June I will:

- Choose a market for "Master of Roads" and submit.
- Add another chapter to "The Castle in the Story" (online story a couple of... I guess you'd call them fans... have asked me to continue)
- Go over outline of "Carrick" for fundamental plot/character flaws; when finished, write first five scenes.
- Submit section of "Carrick" to F&F.
- Give "Over the Transom" a final look/rewrite: submit to Paradox.

Posted by Robyn_Hood (Member # 2083) on :

quote:
By the end of June I will...
1. Develop at least one flash story and submit it, somewhere.
2. Go have a good time at my sister's wedding and have fun relaxing on the beach for a week!
3. Write at least one postcard flash story and send it to someone.

Check!
Check!
Check! (I managed to write up four postcard stories and sent them off last week. They aren't particularly good, but they were fun. )
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How is everyone else doing?

Posted by Keeley (Member # 2088) on :

I've submitted "Over the Transom" to Paradox.

I've looked the outline of "Carrick" over and solved every problem I can see, including a rather nasty one that shows up at the very beginning. I'm now working on the rough draft.

I don't think I'll submit anything but the first section in F&F. I'll worry too much about little things if I do that.

Still haven't decided where to send "Master of Roads".

Posted by GZ (Member # 1374) on :

Well, I did two flash challenges...

Everything else sort of got left by the wayside in the whirlwind this month became.

Posted by autumnmuse (Member # 2136) on :

Well, I worked my tail off on my WotF story but ended up not submitting it after all, due to some critiques that let me know it needs a complete rewrite. So I'm working on a different one and will submit in the next quarter instead.

Posted by Monolith (Member # 2034) on :

Well,

I'm going to try to keep on writing. My goal is to write at least 3 pages on any of my three WIP's a week.

Is that soo bad a goal? But I'm thinking on shooting for the Jan quarter of WotF, I think it might end up being "Olympus Uprising" going, but who knows. <shrugs>

So until further notice, this is the same thing that's going to be on the "By the end of..." goal thing.

-Monolith-

Posted by Ahavah (Member # 2599) on :

Well, my car broke down and I became stranded at mom's house. So I did not complete most of my goals. I did read more short stories and participated in ONE flash challenge.

Guess the list will continue for July, with some minor tweaking.

Posted by Kickle (Member # 1934) on :

I met my goals, however in workshopping my short story “Calvatica” I came to the conclusion that it had to be started again from the first draft.
Besides that let down, I actually had a pretty productive month. I almost finished a rough draft of “Iseau”, started a new short story “Bobcats” and thanks to lurking around Liberty Hall I brainstormed a short short.

Posted by shadowynd (Member # 2077) on :

Okay, time to take stock:

quote:
1. Thorough house cleaning
2. Three newsletters (one is virtually done now)
3. Participate in at least three of Liberty Hall's flash challenges, preferably all
4. Rewrite/edit at least four shorts
5. Submit at least two shorts
6. Find a full time job

Thorough house cleaning: ugh. That got deferred to this weekend.

Newsletters: 2 1/2. Now I have 1 1/2 to go for this weekend.

Flash Challenges: Made two out of four.

Rewrite/edit: also 2 of 4

Submissions: Accomplished! Yay!

Full time job: Well, halfway there, anyway. Passed the first exam two days ago, next: training, 12 July. I'm also still pursuing other avenues for employment as well as working on developing my own business. Agh, too many new things going on at once here!

Didn't accomplish everything, but I'm not too displeased with what I did.

Susan

Posted by Minister (Member # 2213) on :

Goals one and two met. Goals three through five not. Yuck. Failing grade pretty much anywhere, and rightfully so. This month won't go much better, but maybe there is hope for August.

Posted by MCameron (Member # 2391) on :

quote:
By the end of June:
Do the final revisions of "The Toppled Towers" and send it off!

Check, submitted to Glimmertrain.

quote:
Revise and submit "A Convocation of Clowns".

Check, submitted, rejected, resubmitted.

quote:
Participate in the flash challenges.

Check

quote:
Rewrite "The Traveling Puppet Show", hopefully in time to submit to FWG.

Did some work on this, but needs much more.

quote:
Work on background/worldbuilding/characters for novel.

Check.

quote:
Consistently make time for writing every day!

Hah. Didn't happen. Maybe next month.

Well, I did much better this month than last. I'm pretty happy with it.

--Mel

Posted by autumnmuse (Member # 2136) on :

Okay, earlier I said that I didn't meet my goal, but I really did. I squeeked in just under the wire with my WOTF story, and the only flash challenge I missed was because Liberty Hall was down. House cleaning: still working on it, but I'm making some progress.