Wednesday, February 1, 2012

A ROW80 Update and Giveaway Winners

It's time for a ROW80 update. The current round of A Round of Words in 80 Days runs from January 2nd to March 22nd. My goal during this round of ROW80 is to a) edit WIP #1 and get it to beta readers and b) write at least half of the first draft for WIP #2 based on the outline I wrote during the previous round. I’m not one to write in detail about my WIPs online, so I’ll use abbreviations of the titles. WIP #1 is TWILAMPH and WIP #2 is EK.

TWILAMPH: Last week I ended at 18 chapters edited, and to date 25 out of 28 chapters have been edited. I really wanted to finish this first round of edits over the weekend, but I was sick three days straight with a cold. Life happens. But with my next update this first round of edits should be done and I will soon start the second round.  

EK: I wrote 1 more chapter, so now I'm at 4 chapters completed for this draft, when the outline calls for 24 chapters. As long as I write 1 or 2 chapters a week, I'm on task with this goal. 

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Last week I posted a giveaway for Veronica Roth's DIVERGENT and Michelle Hodkin's THE UNBECOMING OF MARA DYER. Here are the winners, picked by random.org.

Kelly is the winner of DIVERGENT.
Emily is the winner of THE UNBECOMING OF MARA DYER.

Congratulations, ladies.

I'll see you all Monday, when I'll be participating in the I'm Hearing Voices Character Blogfest.

43 comments:

Old Kitty said...

Oh I hope you are feeling better!! Yay for your editing progress - but please please take care too! x

Brinda said...

Your progress motivates me!

Cynthia Chapman Willis said...

Congratulations to the winners.

Life does happen, but I hope you're feeling better. I lose my writing mojo when my energy plummets.

Susan R. Mills said...

Congrats to the winners! And congrats to you on the progress you've made. Hope you're feeling better now.

Meredith said...

I hope you're feeling better! It sounds like you'll be done with editing soon--congratulations! Also, I'm gushing about Bestest. Ramadan. Ever. on my blog today. :)

Carol Kilgore said...

You're going great, cold or no cold. I'll be participating in the blogfest, too. See you there!

Mirka Breen said...

You go, girl! making a public account of your productive days reminds me not to let mine drift.

Alex J. Cavanaugh said...

With only three chapters to go, you'll be done this weekend!

Emily R. King said...

I won, I won, I won! YAY! Thanks again, Medeia!

Carol Riggs said...

Woohoo! Congrats to the winners. Sounds like you're continuing to make great progress even though you were sick, actually!

Jen Chandler said...

Hello Medeia!
I found your wonderful blog thanks to the post Meredith did on your new book! Congrats on that, by the way.

Best of luck on your edits!

Happy Thursday,
Jen

Kelly Hashway said...

Sorry you were sick, but you still managed to get a lot done this week, so good for you. And thank you again for the giveaway. I'm so excited I won!

Christa said...

I'm so proud of your diligence and schedule. I will have to institute this soon if I am ever going to get anything done.
I can't wait until Monday!

Tia Bach said...

Sounds like a great writing and editing week! Sure hope you feel better. It's that time of year where the Cold fights the Muse and usually wins. ;-(

Stephen Tremp said...

Hope you feel better real soon! And I'll also be doing the Hearing Voices Blogfest. I've got to finish everything tonight and pre-post it.

Amanda Borenstadt said...

You're so awesome! I nominated you for an award at my mustard blog.

Alissa said...

Hope you've managed to kick that cold to the curb. I had one a few weeks ago, and it was a no fun.

Way to go on pretty much sticking with your goals despite life happening. Keep it up!

Ryan King said...

You may not have finished but you did get pretty darn far. That certainly deserves a kudos! Good job :)

Suze said...

'Last week I ended at 18 chapters edited, and to date 25 out of 28 chapters have been edited. I really wanted to finish this first round of edits over the weekend, but I was sick three days straight with a cold. Life happens. But with my next update this first round of edits should be done and I will soon start the second round.'

Keep it up, my dear. You're an inspiration.

The Golden Eagle said...

I'm sorry to hear you were sick--hope you're feeling better!

Congratulations to the winners.

Dawn Simon said...

Congrats to the winners, and congrats to you on your progress. Very inspiring!

Sorry you were sick. No fun!

StephanieD said...

3 days sick -yikes! But you still managed to accomplish quite a bit!

Deniz Bevan said...

Glad you're feeling better, and good to hear you're still on track with your goals!

amy kennedy said...

Oh, you're doing so well -- really. Even with being sick -- sort of a pun, sorry. Hope you're really. Doing well, and feeling much better.

Mark Koopmans said...

Congrats on what seems like another week of stellar writing :)

Lynda R Young said...

You are making such great progress.

Congrats to the winners.

Pk Hrezo said...

Good for you! Rockin' the house with your bad self. ;) Hope you're feeling better. I'm so tired of colds this season. lol

Congrats to the winners!!

Stina Lindenblatt said...

Congrats to the winners!

Even with your cold, you're rockin', Medeia.

Krispy said...

I always admire how meticulous you are with keeping track of your writing stats. Go you!

I hope you're feeling better by now!

Sarah Pearson said...

I'm starting to think that making goals like this might be a good idea for me too, I need some structure.

Hope you're feeling better and that you're looking after yourself.

sami710 said...

Glad to see you're feeling better and are still trucking along with your writing goals. Hope you have another great week of writing! :)

Janet Johnson said...

Congrats to the winners! And I hear you on the edits . . . but I don't have sickness to blame for my lack of finishing. :(

Nas Dean said...

Congrats to the winners! Hope you feeling better now. All the best!

Jemi Fraser said...

Congrats to the winners!

I hope you're feeling great soon :)

Deb Marshall said...

Hope this finds you feeling much much better and yay for being on track with your wipe.

Congrats to the winners!

Leslie Rose said...

Yay winners. Divergent ROCKS. Hopefully feeling better will spark a writing surge.

Romance Book Haven said...

Congratulations to the winners! And all the best for your progress!

Beth said...

Congratulations to the winners! And sorry to hear about your health battles.

Madeleine Maddocks said...

Great progress you are making. Hope you are now really well since this post. Sending you Lots of healing hugs.

Sharon K. Mayhew said...

WTG on your edits and your writing. Thanks for explaining what ROW80 means...(blushes) I've seen it posted but not seen what the acronym stood for.

inluvwithwords said...

Congratulations on making good progress (even with a cold.)

Medeia Sharif said...

Thanks, everyone, for your comments and encouragement--I feel like I'm surrounded my blog cheerleaders. And I am feeling better. :)

Thank you for your lovely review, Meredith.

Thank you for the blog award, Amanda.

Katrina DeLallo said...

You are so motivating! I love your blog. :)

Oh, and congratulations to the winners. Hurray!