The month of July felt like… a training montage. I also learned how to spell montage, which was not one of my goals, but hey. But basically all I’ve been doing is editing my little brain out, which was one of my goals. Its good, the story is getting stronger and I’m getting closer to being done with the second draft. Back to the training montage, I sometimes with I could put on the cool music and skip this part of the work, because it is repetitive and boring, but if I did that then I wouldn’t learn and become a better writer so, instead I created the below montage for your amusement.
Music: Together We Stand by Scott Holmes is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License.
July Goals:
Writing:
- Edit 300 pages. This is actually my Camp NaNoWriMo Goal. I’m hoping this will actually put me close to finishing the second draft. Complete! And no, I’m not really close to finishing the second draft… why does this take so long? Also, this means I completed Camp NaNoWriMo for the first time!!
- My stretch goals it to finish the 2nd Seriously, how many months is this going to be my goal? I did not complete my stretch goal, but I am pretty happy with the progress I made this month.
Business:
- Post consistently on social media. I’m going to give myself a half complete on this. I did pretty good until the last week of the month. Its kind of becoming a theme at this point.
- Start using IGTV. I did. There isn’t a big audience using IGTV yet, so I feel like I can dip my toes into creating videos. Its kind of fun.
August Goals:
Writing:
- Edit ~600 pages and finish my second draft. I know, this has literally been my goal for four months now, but I really don’t want to be editing during the month of September. I want to start something new and fun for my birthday month.
- See above.
Business:
- Find/confirm content editor
- Post consistently on social media
- Read 1 book on either publishing or writing
Reading:
First Test – Tamora Pierce
Page – Tamora Pierce
Terrier – Tamora Pierce
Bloodhound – Tamora Pierce
Mastiff: – Tamora Pierce
The Calculating Stars – Mary Robinette Kowal
I started a bunch of books… but I didn’t finish very many. I’ll have to work on that.
Misc:
On the summer reading program front, I have completed 14 of 25 challenges. I have a couple of weeks to complete the rest, or at least complete enough to get five raffle entries. If you go to Instagram, I have posted some of the completed challenges, search the hashtag #rosannadoessummerreading. I have been having so much fun!
