First Draft Finished

I hope to increase the word count with revisions but as it stands Dragon's Heart is 73,273 words. Standard single title length is at least 90,000, but Silhouette Nocturne's guidelines are 70,000-75,000. So even if I don't length it, it falls in Silhouette's guidelines. Yeah.

For the next week, I'll be plotting and researching for Fallen, so I'll be ready Nov 1st for NaNo.

Then I'll go back to Dragon's Heart for revisions. I do need to make a plan of attack on revisions. I've read quite a few things on it and need to figure out which will work best for me.

Thanks to all the Sven supporters out there. I appreciate all comments.

70 Days of Sweat

Oh, yeah, Sven's back with a vengence. This time if he's not kicking my butt, NaNo will be. So goals for the next 70 - 93 days.

2000 words a day (no promises on weekends)
Or 2 hours of revision
And 2 hours of plotting

What I'll be working on:

Dragon's Heart - finish & revisions (note: may be 70-75K finished)

72,012 / 90,000 (80.0%)

Fallen - Plot and write during NaNo

0 / 75,000 (0.0%)

What Would ***** Do? - Plot and if time allows start writing (Note: stars aren't in the real title I'm just being mysterious)

0 / 90,000 (0.0%)

Milestone 70,000

71,608 / 90,000 (79.6%)

Woot!

Depending on revisions it may be more like this. Which would be perfect size for Silhouette Nocturne. It also means I'd be done with the first draft in two more days. Yeah!

71,608 / 75,000 (95.5%)

Ticker variation

Craziness

I've signed up for the 70 days of sweat challenge which starts October 15th and goes longer than the 70 days for holidays. My goal is to finish and edit my WIP (damn character had to sit in the chair) and start my next novel which is what NaNoWriMo is for. Yup, write a novel in the month of November. 50,000 words. So I'm working on plotting for the next novel while trying to finish up my WIP.

67,495 / 90,000 (75.0%)

Characters

You tell them don't sit in the chair and what do they do? They sit in the chair. Now what am I suppose to do. Cheeky monkeys. Never do what they're told. Who knows what sort of ancient evil is lurking in that chair? Oh, wait....I'm supposed to know. Crap. Anyone have any ideas what the hell is going to happen now that she's sitting in that damned chair? Umm...guess that's supposed to be me too. Double crap. My story is going out of control and I don't know how to rein it in. I guess that's what editing is for. At least my heroine is keeping her head on her shoulders even though everyone around her is going nuts. Small favors.

65,719 / 90,000 (73.0%)

Word Counts

So according to some publishers my story which just reached 300 pages is 75000 words along, but according to Word it's only 64,296. I'm trying to get a concensus on which is the right word count from one of my groups. So here's where I am:

64,296 / 90,000 (71.4%)

75,000 / 90,000 (83.3%)

I like # 2 better. :)