Were you mad for it in March? Or were you too busy diligently carving a novel out of the keyboard?
Come and confess! The Koala is waiting...
Report your writing activities and points in the comment trail!
Check up on the rules here.
The 2012 Koala Challenge
I think we'll call this column an 'example' of a typical month for a while...keep picking up the badges, though!
Keep writing, keep submitting and earn Koala Love Points! Report in at the end of every month and She Who Is Always Right will total your points and let you know which badge you may display on the side of your blog.
New victims always welcome - please let me know in the comment trail of the latest post. Full instructions for the 2012 challenge here!
Nine or more points:
Angie
Stevie
Pam
Rick (who's Rick? Ah well, he reported in)
Eight points:
Seven points:
Six points:
6 Iasa (it was 5.5, but I'm rounding her up out of amazement. I think it's an Iasa Record)
Five points:
Four points:
Three points:
Two points
One point
Pete
"We were on a break..."
Displease the Koala by neglecting your writing altogether and you may find yourself joining Sarah
KOALA SMACKDOWN
Displease the Koala even more and she may call in her slippery sidekick and put you on:
SUPER-SMACKDOWN!
Aniket
Robin
With thanks to JJ de Benedictis for the fantastic artwork (and her fine abilities with toenail pliers).
Keep writing, keep submitting and earn Koala Love Points! Report in at the end of every month and She Who Is Always Right will total your points and let you know which badge you may display on the side of your blog.
New victims always welcome - please let me know in the comment trail of the latest post. Full instructions for the 2012 challenge here!
Nine or more points:
Angie
Stevie
Pam
Rick (who's Rick? Ah well, he reported in)
Eight points:
Seven points:
Six points:
6 Iasa (it was 5.5, but I'm rounding her up out of amazement. I think it's an Iasa Record)
Five points:
Four points:
Sempra
Whirl (how'd he beat me?! That never happens!)
Three points:
3 McK
Two points
Mar
Sylvia
One point
Pete
"We were on a break..."
Jenna
JJdeGoblin
Displease the Koala by neglecting your writing altogether and you may find yourself joining Sarah
on
KOALA SMACKDOWN
Displease the Koala even more and she may call in her slippery sidekick and put you on:
SUPER-SMACKDOWN!
Aniket
Robin
With thanks to JJ de Benedictis for the fantastic artwork (and her fine abilities with toenail pliers).
About Me
- McKoala
- A marsupial with pretensions to humanity. E-mail the tartan furball at mckoalarado at gmail dot com.
25 comments:
Editing: 35,000 words. Writing 5,000.
8 points. Pretty good effort, McK. Why, thanks McK.
Ruh-roh, Shaggy.
I read my entire 91,000 word WIP for the first time, mapping out the chapters and pacing. But I didn't technically edit or revise it yet. I did break a few chapters at new points and think about my pitch and synopsis, though I did not write them. I began plotting and brainstorming the sequel, probably 5,000 words of fertilizer. And most of that was after a couple of drinks.
Do I get any points, or do I have to use my free pass this month? I put my March fate in your tender, gentle, compassionate, generous, retracted-claws paws, oh Mighty McK.
If I can mash out another 400 words, then I'll have 4 points. If not, I have 3.
Um. I was in India?
*nervous look*
Pete: one point. You did at least get 5000 words on paper.
JJdeben... wasn't that last month...
I was...in India...for the first week of March? Still?
Um.
I got three articles in and 4K words, so I know I'm off smackdown. But the month isn't over yet.
Editing: 21,000 words - 4 points
Guest blogging: 1 point
Novel sub to publisher: 1 point
E-pubbing 2 books (hehe, yes, 2 if the 2nd one goes live in the next 13 hours - a quiet, under-the-radar effort for now): 2 points
Reformatting 2 books a bazillion times for e-pubbing: 1 bazillion points
Reformatting my blog: 0 points
Actual writing: Um, what was that minimum again? Oh. 0 points
Total: 8 points
Let's see...
Words Written (New sections in novel + Short Story + Beginning of a Short Story + Flash Fic + Journal Article): 1,537 + 4,825 + 406 + 829 + 948 = 8,545 (3 points)
Words Edited: 41,747 (8 points)
Fiction Submitted: 1 short story (1 point)
Nonfiction Submitted: 1 article (1 point)
Total = 13 points
And I have a new project that will see me writing something new every month from now on as well as editing the two novels I want to finish this year.
Well, I'm probably not going to do any more writing today, so I might as well total it up. :/
Writing: 12,068 words = 5 pts
Submissions: 5 = 5 pts
TOTAL = 10 pts
That's more submissions than I expected to get (I had a spate of rejections, which let me get some stories back out into the mail for more points, and is it twisted that I actually like getting rejections now because it means more Koala points...?) but my writing sucked. I pretty much stopped halfway through the month. :(
I had some medical issues that I thought were more serious than they turned out to be, although they're bad enough. My doctors weren't great at communicating and I spent some time thinking I had a really horrible condition, until the follow-up appointment when they mentioned a couple of other things that I wished I'd known earlier. :/ Anyway, yeah, massive distraction. Will do better in April.
Angie, whose legs are still itching and oozing
Edited: 15 700 = 3 points
Written: 6 050 = 3 points
Total = 6 points
Ech, shattered. I did all my points in the last week. BUT I did it.
Words written: 0
Words edited: 30,664
6 points
Stories submitted:
6 points
Hey, that's 12 points.
No wonder I'm so tired!
Update. :/ I dropped a submission off at the Post Office yesterday (yeah, there are still SF markets that haven't dragged their butts into the 21st century) and got my empty, unsealed SASE back in the mail today. [headdesk] I can only guess that my 9x12 envelope came open (whether unstuck or torn or whatever) and scattered its contents all over the sorting room. They helpfully returned my SASE to me [cough] so I'm assuming the worst. Which, actually, would be the magazine getting an open envelope with half a story and no SASE, but with my name on it. :P
But anyway, I'm resubmitting. The PO is closed, so it'll be tomorrow. So technically this will be an April submission rather than a March submission, which brings me down to 9 points for March, but gives me a leg up for April. [wry smile]
Angie, who has a new writer story to tell folks now :P
Um, yeah, um, let's see, there's, well nothing there, um, how about, nope, nothing there either.
Month off!!!!!!
Words written: 10,000. 4 points.
Words edited: 7000. 1 point.
Short story published: 1 point.
6 points total.
Not bad early birds. Angie, ick to the legs, and to the envelope disaster! Next month can only get better!
hands in pocket, whistling a little tune. Nothing to see here, move along. I guess this is my vacation month.
Sneaks in...
2 novel subs
2 query letters (on 2 projects)
5 writing, 13k
2 editing that same 13k
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11 for sure
I got asked to blurb a book, which I did, which was nearly as nerve-wracking as writing a query and surely deserves a sprig of eucalypt of my own. Or a point. Preferably one that rolls over to April. (waits for it...)
Iasa! So soon in the year! With Belize still to come...
Pinger...cheeky, cheeky. I'll award the point but...No Rollovers!!!
OK, I'm back in the States now, and adding up points:
Beta read a novel for a friend: 1 point
Edited a story and submitted it to one place in March: 1 point
Submitted a guest blog post to an author's site: 1 point
Wrote approx 4800 words new: 1 point
Edited approx 10K: 2 points
Prepping our house for sale screwed up my expected word count happiness, but I still managed a decent 6 points, to avoid the claws-of-Mc-Doom!
I know and I'm leaving next week!
@JJ & McK: I was in India too! Wait, I am in India.Can I get a free pass for that? :D :D
Too wishful?
Well there was this cricket world cup thingy going on and we were handling some technology part related to it, so were super-busy you know. A guy has to earn a living.
But I organized a contest for promoting Cindy's book and gave away two copies too. That should get me something, right? Right?!
If not, I'll take this month off.
P.S. Would've loved to meet JJ if I knew! :'( I'll definitely make another trip to US though. This time just to meet all the bloggy-friends.
March has been patchy — lots of miscellaneous here-and-therey stuff — but I'm guessing it works out as
2 story subs
12,000 words of edits
1 query-style sub
So that's 5.
Edited 49,000 words - 9 points.
Ugh... can I count March as my free month? I blame the dreary weather.
Month off for Lauren and Aniket!
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