I've been thinking about my writing and more to the point how little I have been doing of it.

Part of that is the season. After November's frenzy there is always a lull, then with Christmas and New Year and my wife's birthday there are few opportunities for solid work. But I have a very strong desire to actually get at least one book to a point where it might be submitted, or somewhere close to it.

So I need to set some goals.

One of the things about NaNoWriMo is that it has firm daily word count goals. There's a number of other places to sign up for word count goals even in the off season, but it's still about making words. Which, you know, is kind of the point of writing, but I'm not at a point where I am really making words - I am making sense of the ones I already have.

What NaNoEdMo does is to set a goal of fifty hours of editing in a month. Given the NaNoWriMo 50k word count goal this places a rough equivalence of one hour of editing to a thousand words. Given that that is about how fast I type then I have decided to at least commit to doing an hour's editing a day.

So that's what I will be posting about as I go on.

Posted by Dunx at February 1, 2010 09:11 PM