Goal Update - Beta Reader Draft Due by Sept. 17th

(A visual clue from my novel-in-progress.)

I wrote 3/4th of my current novel and got stuck, so I sat down and wrote the entire story as a screenplay. Hooray!

Now I have a working plot with a story arch that makes a lot more sense. The next thing to do is rework the novel to better fit the screenplay story arch, adding, deleting, and modifying where necessary. There are 30 sections, although they don't break exactly as chapters. My goal is to print out copies for beta readers on September 17th.

All well-wishing is gratefully accepted. And let me know if you put up a post about your own writing goal. I'd love to comment some encouragement for you.

30 Sections:

1. Reworked 8.4.09. 2. Reworked 8.4.09. 3. Reworked 8.4.09, partially critiqued 8.6.09, partial edits incorporated 8.6.09. 4. Reworked 8.5.09, partially critiqued 8.6.09, partial edits incorporated 8.6.09. 5. Reworked 8.6-8.09. 6. Reworked 8.7-8.09. 7. Reworked 8.8.09. 8. Reworked 8.9-10.09. 9. Reworked 8.10.09. 10. Reworked 8.11.09. 11. Reworked 8.11.09. 12. Reworked 8.12-14.09. 13. Reworked 8.15.09. 14. Reworked 8.24.09. 15. Reworked 8.25.09. 16. Reworked 8.26.09. 17. Reworked 8.28.09. 18. Reworked 8.29-30.09. 19. Reworked 6.30.09, critiqued 7.4.09, edits incorporated 7.10.09. 20. Reworked 6.30.09, partially critiqued 7.4.09, partial edits incorporated 7.10.09. 21. Reworked 7.10-20.09, partially critiqued 7.16.09, partial edits incorporated 7.16.09 22. Reworked 8.30.09-9.3.09 23. Reworked 9.4.09-9.7.09 24. Reworked 9.8.09-9.10.09 25. Reworked 9.11.09 26. Reworked 9.11-12.09 27. Reworked 9.12.09 28. Reworked 9.12.09 29. Reworked 9.13-14.09 30. Reworked 9.15-16.09

I format pages to be about 1,000 words per page as I work. So while it looks like I'm only writing a 100-page story below, that actually adds up to more than 100,000 words. This is just a rough idea to try and keep on track:

8.10.09 - pp. 18-21	8.30.09 - pp. 52-58
8.11.09 - pp. 22-23	8.31.09 - pp. 59-63
8.12.09 - pp. 24-25	9.1.09 - pp. Organizing.
8.13.09 - pp. --------	9.2.09 - pp. 64-66
8.14.09 - pp. 26-27	9.3.09 - pp. 67-70
8.15.09 - pp. 28-31	9.4.09 - pp. --------
8.16.09 - Working in old edits.	9.5.09 - pp. 71-73
8.17.09 - Working in old edits.	9.6.09 - pp. --------
8.18.09 - Working in old edits.	9.7.09 - pp. 74-75
8.19.09 - Working in old edits.	9.8.09 - pp. 76-77
8.20.09 - Working in old edits.	9.9.09 - pp. 77-78
8.21.09 - Working in old edits.	9.10.09 - pp. 79-80 + editing.
8.22.09 - Working in old edits.	9.11.09 - pp. 81-83
8.23.09 - -------------	9.12.09 - pp. 84-86
8.24.09 - pp. 35-37	9.13.09 - 87-88
8.25.09 - pp. 38-40	9.14.09 - 89 + Editing.
8.26.09 - pp. 41-42	9.15.09 - Editing
8.27.09 - pp. 43	9.16.09 - 90-92
8.28.09 - pp. 44-45	9.17.09 - Editing.
8.29.09 - pp. 46-51	9.18.09 - Printing out copies.