Excuse me while I hyperventilate over the fact that there are only 5 months left in this year…
Okay, thanks. No new draft for me this month, but I DID revise. I also got to attend the SCBWI conference in LA and meet about 40 of you. THAT was the highlight for me. I am planning a big writing month in August, since I have no travel and the kids will be re-starting school mid-month. Onwards!
Your turn!
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I worked on revising a teen devotional.
Nice! Best wishes on that.
July turned around in the last week. I had been revising, but didn’t have a revision I liked enough to call it one until the 28th. And then a new draft appeared. 🙂
Isn’t it fun when that happens? I think writing, sometimes, is simply magical.
Can claim revisions and a draft for July. Gosh, August! Such a pivotal month– last chance for summer, but the year’s final third, with all its frenzy and festivities, is waiting in the wings.
I really need and want to chill and take a sort of inner vacation; but goallessness isn’t easily achieved. So will let myself do what I feel I have to, but without forcing, pushing, striving, if I can. Appreciated Leanne Shirtliffe’s post.
I wrote a new PB about a bird :).
June was another crazy month… in between having emergency surgery and then being in the hospital, I wrote the second PB in my series about birds, and revised 2 of my existing manuscripts.
Oops! That should read July not June!!
Lots of revisions for a project my agent is pushing. And a new story on water resources. Good month.
I write a new PB draft and that gave me the momentum to do yet another revision on another PB! August here I come feeling inspired!
“wrote” that is! Better check my draft for typos ?
I DID IT!
And when that was all I had to say, it told me my comment was too short!
LOL!
I wrote my draft for July and did a couple of revisions. I’m looking forward to reading Leanne’s book 🙂
I wrote 2 drafts, revised one manuscript and submitted another story. And here I was thinking I’d been slacking. Looks like a lot when I write all down.
I revised. Just started a new story and have filled a page with ideas.
Revised and re-revised!! a manuscript I have been working on for months and have 1 new draft waiting for my writers group to have a go at.
Well, I don’t know what’s going on, but I’ve been having trouble posting tonight. SIGH! I was trying to post a manuscript, but I kept getting the comment that my manuscript is 1759 characters too long. The story is around 700 words plus the title. I don’t see how it could possibly be too long. I’ve actually posted manuscripts that were longer and had comments from me in it. So then I tried to contact the elves and it wouldn’t let me send them a message. I don’t think this is “operator error” (although that’s often the case), but more likely something going goofy with my laptop (it is old).
Anyway, I did revise several manuscripts this month, and wrote two new stories. I was going to post one tonight, but… oh well. I’ll try again tomorrow. Oh, and I did submit a manuscript to an editor last week. We’ll see about that one in a few months.
Wow! You’ve been working hard Pam. Best wishes on your submission. Keep us posted!
I LOVE SHARKS, TOO! looks so fun! I wrote a new draft and revised my story from two months ago. Yay!
congratulations! Job well done.
Revision, revision, revision! That’s pretty much described the latter part of July.
It’s been a summer of revision, and wedding prep, for me, plus some submissions to folks I met at two regional conferences this spring. I look forward to starting some new drafts this fall. Enjoy the rest of the summer, everyone!
I love your new book title and illustration. July has been a month of major revisions with the help of 12×12, a few submissions, and one new draft which has a long way to go.
I had the hot summer blues, but I did write and revise this month. My mind has a tough time not being on vacation when the temperature soars.
You made me feel better about taking time off. I hope to be back in the middle of picture books soon!
I wrote a PB draft and edited it. I also wrote another rough PB. 🙂
I revised a picture book manuscript and got another one started.
I wrote a draft of a new picture book. And I finalized my other two stories so they are good enough to send to a professional editor.
I did my new draft and revision. Yea!!!
I been sadly missing in action. At the beginning of the summer, I was getting ready for my daughter’s destination wedding in Ireland and then we traveled through the end of June. Even though I had been keeping up with writing and completed a MS, I missed posting :(. In July I wrote a pretend play manuscript and revised an old but loved manuscript that seemed too short