I joined Codex Writers a few weeks ago; this has been a goal of mine for a few years. I’ve heard mixed reviews from people who have joined over the years, but so far it’s been good motivation to write and submit more.
Codex currently has a novel writing challenge, and I’ve outlined a writing plan to get my novel drafted with a first round of edits done by the beginning of December.
The project I’m currently committed to finishing by December is my contemporary queer Jewish romantic fantasy. (So of course my old project Swamp Hag Summer is rearing its head to be worked on.) When I did the math, it looks like, if I want to complete a 75,000 word draft, I need to write 500 words/day. So far I’m on track to reach this goal for this week.
So, instead of a weekend challenge, my goal for the week is to write 500 words/day.
Current novel progress: 9,935/75,000
For comparison, Swamp Hag Summer was a manuscript I lost during OpenSourceGate 2022, when the open source program I was hoping would replace Scrivener ate my manuscript and then ate it again when I tried to access the backup.
Swamp Hag Summer is current at 1,235/75,000.
Until December, I think my writing priority is going to be to write 500 words in the project I have WiP titled Political Romance. This might change if my vampire novella Undead, Get to Work! goes somewhere, but for right now it feels good to prioritize another world for a while.