Projects for December

[tawek.livejournal.com]

This thread is to describe your next planned project starting in December.  It can be any length.  In November some went for 500 or 5000 words, one or two even for 10000 or 20000.

This seems a good place to repeat Altariel's excellent prose about what Picowrimo is about ...

• The aim of this community is to help keep people writing.
• To this end we have (at least weekly) prompts for people to post about what progress they're making and to give encouragement to others to hit their writing targets. 
• There are no goals other than those you set for yourself, and no compulsion beyond what you put upon yourself. There are no limits on genre, style, age, or experience, and both fiction and non-fiction are welcome.
• Participants are welcome to post excerpts (rated for a general audience), ask questions and for advice, provide insight into the writing life, and so on. Although we are not a reviewing, editing, or beta-reading community, links to completed stories are also welcome. 
• The only thing we ask is that you help keep the atmosphere friendly and supportive.

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Tawek's December project

[tawek.livejournal.com]

My December targets involve more prose for my novel Quill and Coronet:
- Finish chapter 5.
- Then write 5,000 words of chapter 6.

If I have extra energy in the season of waddling like a duck after Christmas dinner, I may add a further target.

Quill and Coronet is an adventure/romance based in a fictional world with medieval technology. My chapters tend to be long, around 10,000 words, and I'm a bit over halfway through the first volume.

[greenlily.livejournal.com]

Yay. I'm really glad you decided to keep this community going.

My goal is to answer the weekly prompts in oc_speedfic by writing scenes for the writing project I began for picowrimo. I will keep doing this until the rest of my life interferes again. :)

[tawek.livejournal.com]

Yay! Glad you're staying on board. Here's hoping "rest of life" keeps itself from interfering :)

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

I'm planning on going easy on myself in December, but I do need to finish my yuletide story (1000 words minimum) which is at present languishing. I have some ideas but at the moment they're not coming together as writing.

[tawek.livejournal.com]

All the best with the yuletide story. And have a relaxing festive season :)

Time to let your subconscious mull over those ideas, and let them gell in the background.

[quietann.livejournal.com]

My goals for December:

Get The Novella That Ate My Life done and posted (<A href="http://www.lse.org/~quietann/ges/would1.html>Chapter 1</A> is up, yay!) As a warning, it's rather dark, and R or NC17 depending on where you cut things. Get the Elena story done and posted!

[tawek.livejournal.com]

When it's up, will it regurgitate your life? Or have I been watching too many Torchwood episodes?

[quietann.livejournal.com]

aieeee!

Actually, it is now one-third posted!

[six-old-cars.livejournal.com]

Well, my December project is to make some progress on Chapter 6 of Archivist. Though, actually, since I managed two chapters in November I should probably aim to complete chapter 6.

[tawek.livejournal.com]

What would you have thought in October if someone had predicted you writing those words in Dec 2006? ... "progress on Chapter 6 of Archivist"
Here's for similar surprises through this December and beyond!

[six-old-cars.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

Although the only surprise the chapter 6 planning has thrown up so far is that the last scene of chapter 5 is no good. Half of it needs to happen later, which will make the other half all wrong. And there's a missing scene too.

[forodwaith.livejournal.com]

I have two main goals for December:

• Finish Yuletide story by the Dec. 19 deadline. Subgoal: have the first draft complete & ready for beta-reading by the end of this week.
• Read the overgrown outline (~30,000 words) I completed in September and sketch necessary revisions/additions/etc to make an actual novel out of it.

I haven't set a word target for the month; since I'll be concentrating on revisions it doesn't seem likely that I'll be adding many new words.

[tawek.livejournal.com]

Best of luck with both the Yuletide story, and revising 30,000 words - a significant task in itself.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

In December I want to:

• Finish the two scenes in Cold Heaven I didn't quite manage to complete last month


• Write a short fic based on Bujold's The Curse of Chalion


• Rework a novel outline that's been hanging around for some time just needs a final push to bring it to a decent state

[tawek.livejournal.com]

What's the saying? "It'll be a Cold day in Heaven..."
Indeed it will :) Warm days are much overrated.

Sounds a worthy list of objectives, I look forward to reading the fruits of your labours.

[ex-lark-asc.livejournal.com]

No writing project for December, but best wishes to those who are carrying on!

[catskin.livejournal.com]

Goal for December:

Write something everyday, no matter how many shiny distractions are thrown in my path. Theoretically I'm going for a 1000 words a day, but in reality I'll be happy with 10, lol.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

That's a really good target to set yourself.

But will you take Christmas Day off?! :-D

[catskin.livejournal.com]

Lol, I'll probably have to be dragged down to Christmas dinner.

[tawek.livejournal.com]

1000 a day! Woah!
A worthy ambition. Always good to aim high :)

Here's to success in disregarding the baubles of the season.

[tianaluthien.livejournal.com]

Goals for December:

1) Finish the story I was working on during Pico. I can feel the end nearing and I'd really like to be typing it all up/editing by January. At the very LEAST I want to write 170 words a day on it.

2) Write a short Faramir drabble-type-thingy.

3) Write a short Remus/Tonks Christmas fic.

As always, any form of comments, heckling, prodding, harassing to keep me on track are most welcome :D Heck, maybe I should set up an approapriate entry in my LJ for it...

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Remus has a soft spot in my heart very close to the one reserved for Faramir, so looking forwards to hearing more about those projects :-)

[tianaluthien.livejournal.com]

Well, when they're done I'll probably post 'em in my LJ... :) My heart has a soft spot for Remus as well -- also very close to Faramir's spot. *sighs dreamily*

[altariel.livejournal.com]

He is indeed! *joins in dreamy sighs*

[tawek.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, Faramir. I remember as a young teenager at school, being asked which LoTR character I would like to be. I chose Faramir :)