Joely Sue Burkhart

Fast Draft Day Ten

Don’t let anything get in the way of your writing. (Including sleep.)

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Evening Update: Very close to 20 pages – 19 total — with another 6 pages tonight. Note, however, that is 10:30 and I have to get ready for bed yet. So 4:00 a.m. will come all too early. Sigh. But I’m so very, very close to the end! That is enough to lure me onward. I also found a very cool item via a blog entry that I made notes on this afternoon. It fits the elements of this story very, very well and will add a neat emotional/spiritual element, I think.

Morning Update: Super tired, still. It was after 10:00 p.m. again before I made it to bed. I was so tempted to stay in bed this morning. Ugh. But I made it, if a little late once more. 13+ pages this morning. Looking at my plot, I only have 5 more sections including the one I’m working on now–but I think some of those little sticky notes actually represent several sections and lots of action. 200 pages in ten days! Still impressive.

Note that MM (middle monster) was sent home sick yesterday with pink eye — for real. So in my two week Fast Draft, two of the three monsters have been sick. Yay. Life as usual.

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6 Responses to “Fast Draft Day Ten”

Nancy Bond Says:
March 14th, 2007 at 7:41 am
You’ve reached the peak, and are definitely headed down the other side of The Mountain! Excellent! I didn’t get my 20 for yesterday, but I got 17! And that’s a huge thing for me. Thx for the encouragement!
Bridget Medora Says:
March 14th, 2007 at 10:44 am
Impressive is right. Great job! Your excitement and enthusiasm come right through the computer to me, and every day I get more and more excited for you. And more and more inspired to start my next novel! Gotta finish the edits on the current one though and send it off on its merry agent-query way…end of this month is Q-day for me!

Prayers for a speedy recovery for MM. Pinkeye’s no fun. Here’s a bunch of virtual strwaberries for her (my mom always said strawberries help cure pinkeye…I don’t know if that’s true but whenever I got pinkeye she always fed me strawberries. ).
Jess Says:
March 14th, 2007 at 11:22 am
Go, Joely! That IS impressive. And Catie Murphy’s doing a challenge so I’m going to participate, too. Now to just nail down my ghosty hero and do some plotting. Yah, that would be good.
Rene Says:
March 14th, 2007 at 11:52 am
Boy, that is some dedication.

I don’t plan my writing times anymore because that is when the kids happen to have something wrong with them. Children have a sixth sense about it. When you are most in depth writing is when they stick a fork up their nose or something.
Holly Lisle Says:
March 14th, 2007 at 4:29 pm
Totally feeling your pain on the writing. Congrats on such excellent progress, and sympathies on being so tired.
Joely Says:
March 14th, 2007 at 5:49 pm
Thanks, Nancy–I hope you had another great day today!

Bridget, ooh, I feel your pain on revisions. I have two mss in the query and wait stage now that I just finished revising. Go on those submissions! And interesting about the strawberries. MM’s eye is much better, but getting berries down her would probably be a heck of a lot easier than propping her eyelid open 4 times a day for those nasty drops!!

Go, Jess! Let us know how your challenge goes!

Rene, definitely. It never fails! I never thought I’d have to tell a kid not to put a pencil up her nose. (MM)

Thanks, Holly! My pace isn’t as grueling as yours. Hugs on those revisions. I’ll be facing that next in a month or two after I let this one sit!

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