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I'M HOME! | stream today & retreat realizations!
🕑 Added 2024-11-20 14:07:47 +0000 UTCHello, hello friends!
I feel like it's been such a long time even though, realistically, it's been two weeks (at most). But during this 100KQ4 challenge, that IS a long time! Not only has it been a while away from y'all, it's been a while away from my project, Under The Influence.
During the writing retreat, I chose to focus all my attention on A Closet Full of Cauldrons. (The right move, I think.) While I didn't complete the revision, I'm very, very close.
(Picture above from a walk Becca and I went on during the retreat! The town was decorating for the holidays already and this area near the little river was giving me such Gilmore Girls vibes.)
I rewrote the final two chapters from scratch and now I'm halfway through my "smoothing" re-read, where my goal is to make sure all the little and big changes made from last draft are making sense. Sometimes you change a single thing in one chapter and it has ramifications four chapters later.
Once I finish the "smooth," I'll go over the draft one final time, with a focus on line level stuff and making sure all the important names are filled in. :) SO CLOSE, I'm telling you!!
(Adorable chicken above crocheted by the incredible Lindsay Puckett.)
While on the retreat, I had an epiphany about how I needed to manage these two projects. I don't want to fully put the 100KQ4 aside as I finish, so my goal instead is a piece of throwback advice I once gave for juggling multiple projects: Do your most important work first.
So today, on the Twitch stream, I'll be working on ACFoC.
Then with y'all, on our 100KQ4 stream (at 1:45pm CST TODAY), I'll be working on Under The Influence.
I'll keep up this "routine" until I've sent off ACFoC to beta readers, with one caveat: Fridays.
As you can see, I've fallen behind. Not hopelessly behind, not yet! But I need to do something to mitigate this, especially with the upcoming holidays.
So I'm returning to another old favorite: The 5K Fridays. I'm going to go out on a 5,000 step walk and I'm going to write 5,000 words. (I think I have a video of this where my goal was 10K, but I'm being more realistic now, lolol.) I'm hoping this will give me short little bursts so I can get my line closer and closer to par. :)
Okay, that's it for me for now! I need to save all these extra words for my projects lolol. I hope to see y'all on the streams today. :) Until next time, happy writing!!
Comments
78kgsofshade
Excited for the vlog. Also, that cappuccino looks divine. It's still only halfway through the challenge - there's lots of time left!
Kate Cavanaugh Writes
Bahahaha I LOVE that.
BethIsWriting
I follow a forager on TikTok and she ends her videos with Happy Snacking, Don’t Die! So now whenever I hear or read Happy (whatever) my brain ends it with Don’t Die! So, Happy Writing, Don’t Die!
Kate Cavanaugh Writes
Thanks Zara! Vlog should be out next week hopefully. Fingers crossed! :)
Zara Hoffman
Can’t wait to watch the vlog & attend the streams!
