Comments on: Driving the Deadline http://writerunboxed.com/2006/10/09/driving-the-deadline/ about the craft and business of fiction Mon, 21 May 2012 13:00:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Dee http://writerunboxed.com/2006/10/09/driving-the-deadline/#comment-1125 Dee Tue, 17 Oct 2006 04:21:28 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2006/10/09/driving-the-deadline/#comment-1125 I have joined. And I'm in the same boat as you, except I'm a publicist for recording artist and a mom and a Brownie Scout owl and not writing my novel. I need help. I have editors waiting. I have joined. And I’m in the same boat as you, except I’m a publicist for recording artist and a mom and a Brownie Scout owl and not writing my novel. I need help. I have editors waiting.

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]]> By: Therese Walsh http://writerunboxed.com/2006/10/09/driving-the-deadline/#comment-1115 Therese Walsh Sun, 15 Oct 2006 21:01:06 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2006/10/09/driving-the-deadline/#comment-1115 Thanks for the tips, Lacy. And best of luck to you while you're job hunting! Hang in. Thanks for the tips, Lacy. And best of luck to you while you’re job hunting! Hang in.

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]]> By: Lacy http://writerunboxed.com/2006/10/09/driving-the-deadline/#comment-1087 Lacy Tue, 10 Oct 2006 20:15:16 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2006/10/09/driving-the-deadline/#comment-1087 I tried NaNo last year, Therese, on a different novel, but found it a recipe for disaster because I hadn't outlined beforehand! Whoops! BUT, the cool thing I learned was that there are local NaNo get-togethers. Check out the forums on the website to find your local chapter. Ours had a couple of brainstorming pizza parties that were SO MUCH FUN! It was an absolute trip to see all the different people writing their novels. Plus I got a button that says "I write books," which I wear whenever I need a reminder. ;) No NaNo for me this year -- November is not going to be a good month because we are moving! But there's no reason I can't hold my own NaNoWriMo in December while I'm unemployed and job hunting, right? I tried NaNo last year, Therese, on a different novel, but found it a recipe for disaster because I hadn’t outlined beforehand! Whoops!

BUT, the cool thing I learned was that there are local NaNo get-togethers. Check out the forums on the website to find your local chapter. Ours had a couple of brainstorming pizza parties that were SO MUCH FUN! It was an absolute trip to see all the different people writing their novels. Plus I got a button that says “I write books,” which I wear whenever I need a reminder. ;)

No NaNo for me this year — November is not going to be a good month because we are moving! But there’s no reason I can’t hold my own NaNoWriMo in December while I’m unemployed and job hunting, right?

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]]> By: patry http://writerunboxed.com/2006/10/09/driving-the-deadline/#comment-1078 patry Tue, 10 Oct 2006 01:28:42 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2006/10/09/driving-the-deadline/#comment-1078 Looking forward to nano here, too. Enjoyed your tips. Looking forward to nano here, too.

Enjoyed your tips.

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]]> By: Therese Walsh http://writerunboxed.com/2006/10/09/driving-the-deadline/#comment-1077 Therese Walsh Mon, 09 Oct 2006 23:56:03 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2006/10/09/driving-the-deadline/#comment-1077 :lol: Thea! :lol: Thea!

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]]> By: thea mcginnis http://writerunboxed.com/2006/10/09/driving-the-deadline/#comment-1076 thea mcginnis Mon, 09 Oct 2006 19:44:09 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2006/10/09/driving-the-deadline/#comment-1076 re kathleen's reply above: ok, 6.66 pages a day - does that mean i'll be in league with satan???????????? cause i need a pitchfork in my butt all the time to keep me on schedule!!! re kathleen’s reply above: ok, 6.66 pages a day – does that mean i’ll be in league with satan???????????? cause i need a pitchfork in my butt all the time to keep me on schedule!!!

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]]> By: Therese Walsh http://writerunboxed.com/2006/10/09/driving-the-deadline/#comment-1075 Therese Walsh Mon, 09 Oct 2006 19:25:40 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2006/10/09/driving-the-deadline/#comment-1075 Kath, I don't think you're crazy to think about NaNo. Work up a rough outline and join in the "fun!" Melissa, I signed up for an automated "daily hassle email" from http://hassleme.co.uk . Mine goes something like this, "Write in your bloody manuscript today or it will never, ever be finished! Who the hell do you think is going to write it for you, your mother? Now GET BUSY!" My poor mother. I really do hope she's not reading my blog today. S. William, oh I'm definitely in love with my story and its characters. If I wasn't, I'd have given up on it l-o-n-g before now. But the prolonged rounds of near-acceptance/still-rejection back-and-forth stuff soured my love of the PROCESS and I honestly think it birthed something that stinks a lot like "fear of failure." Bottom line: I believe in and love the story, and I believe in myself, but I need potent motivation to jump through all the hoops again - and that's what this is about for me. Eliza and Eric, see you both at the finish line! :) Kath, I don’t think you’re crazy to think about NaNo. Work up a rough outline and join in the “fun!”

Melissa, I signed up for an automated “daily hassle email” from http://hassleme.co.uk . Mine goes something like this, “Write in your bloody manuscript today or it will never, ever be finished! Who the hell do you think is going to write it for you, your mother? Now GET BUSY!” My poor mother. I really do hope she’s not reading my blog today.

S. William, oh I’m definitely in love with my story and its characters. If I wasn’t, I’d have given up on it l-o-n-g before now. But the prolonged rounds of near-acceptance/still-rejection back-and-forth stuff soured my love of the PROCESS and I honestly think it birthed something that stinks a lot like “fear of failure.” Bottom line: I believe in and love the story, and I believe in myself, but I need potent motivation to jump through all the hoops again – and that’s what this is about for me.

Eliza and Eric, see you both at the finish line! :)

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]]> By: Kathleen Bolton http://writerunboxed.com/2006/10/09/driving-the-deadline/#comment-1074 Kathleen Bolton Mon, 09 Oct 2006 18:29:58 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2006/10/09/driving-the-deadline/#comment-1074 I checked out NaNo again. So if the goal is 50,000 words in 30 days, that translates into 6.66 pages a day. Definitely doable, but still pushing it...esp. for people like me who find doing 5 pages a day a stretch. :-) I checked out NaNo again. So if the goal is 50,000 words in 30 days, that translates into 6.66 pages a day. Definitely doable, but still pushing it…esp. for people like me who find doing 5 pages a day a stretch. :-)

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]]> By: S William Shaw http://writerunboxed.com/2006/10/09/driving-the-deadline/#comment-1073 S William Shaw Mon, 09 Oct 2006 16:44:25 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2006/10/09/driving-the-deadline/#comment-1073 Deadlines don't drive me. Nope. No way. Uh uh. I can't write for a deadline. I have to be a slave, madly in love with the story, at all times. Deadlines don’t drive me. Nope. No way. Uh uh. I can’t write for a deadline. I have to be a slave, madly in love with the story, at all times.

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]]> By: Melissa Marsh http://writerunboxed.com/2006/10/09/driving-the-deadline/#comment-1072 Melissa Marsh Mon, 09 Oct 2006 15:47:50 +0000 http://writerunboxed.com/2006/10/09/driving-the-deadline/#comment-1072 I decided to write my goals in the back of my calendar and on the 15th of every month, I wrote in a little "reminder" that says, "Where are you at with your goals?" and then I reevaluate myself. I like how it makes me refocus. I'm not too good on self-imposed deadlines, but it depends on the project, too. I decided to write my goals in the back of my calendar and on the 15th of every month, I wrote in a little “reminder” that says, “Where are you at with your goals?” and then I reevaluate myself. I like how it makes me refocus.

I’m not too good on self-imposed deadlines, but it depends on the project, too.

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