The Score 2/26/08

Let's tally "The Score" for 2/19/08:

I did get up early all week (5/5:30 a.m. - except the other day when I was rustling to get out of bed and the Human Heater sweetly mumbled in his sleep, "Where you goin' babe'?" then hugged me close - way too cute and warm to resist). Getting more accustomed to the early wake up thought and now I'm getting coherent enough to write things that aren't solely stream of consciousness.

I did not make significant progress this past week on my WIP. Studying got in the way, so I made minimal progress instead (please read that as hardly any). Page counts are not working for me as well as word counts. Lesson learned.

I did revise a short story for publication consideration. I want to tweak it a little more.

I did not get a chance to meet to research as I had hoped.


Final Score for week:

Wins For Me: 2
My Losses, No Pony: 2

Result: Draw. Learned some things though.


On to this week's goals:

Select 3 publications to submit revised story next week.

Call and make appointment with "expert" for research

Go back to word count and not pages. Write and determine a minimum word count.

Bonus goal: write a new flash this week for purpose of submitting (500 - 750 words tops)

Is it helping to post this? Yes...actually I knew even though today had been hectic and I am falling asleep as I type this (those early morning wake-ups are taking a toll), I knew I had to report how I'm doing. Had to face up to the stuff that I haven't made progress with yet. I don't want to post about stuff week after week without having made some (good) moves. I like a little pressure. So yes, Tuesday Confessions are so far good motivation. I'll keep it up.