YAY! and Spy

So I officially met my 35,000 word goal!  Huzzah!  I'm guessing I'll need another 10k to tie the loose ends together but I think that's okay, my drafts are a little heavy when I finish them and this will give me some room to cut things out.

My new goal for September is to finish writing this first draft and then as hard as it will be for me...I'm going to take the advice that I haven't had to guts to use yet.  I'm going to let the manuscript sit.  And then I'm going to read it cover to cover and see how it sounds...

In the meantime, I have so many different ideas I'm just itching to start, hopefully this will keep me distracted enough to leave Parasites alone.  I have two ideas that have floated to the top, I'm not sure which one will win, but I'm excited to find out!  Yay!

So here's this weeks video...  (and in case you are left wondering we did eat the entire bunny in the process of filming and no it wasn't hollow)

BECOME A BETTER WRITER W/O WRITING PART 4--SPY

p.s. I know you have to write to become better at it...

When I have five seconds...

This is what I've been up to...

All day.  Every day.  Eat. Poop. Sleep. Play. Dishes. Crap were out of laundry.  AGAIN.  All I can say about this two kid thing is if I didn't need to sleep (EVER) I'd totally have it under control.

And when I have five seconds...I've been a vegetable.  I don't usually watch tv...I mean besides Dora or Sesame  Street in the morning.  That's how I have time to write.  

But (sad day)  I started watching TV again.  Therefore this is the first thing I've written in a while.

There is definitely something to be said about the mind numbing comfort of television...but I can't let this be a habit.  Because I need to write.  I just need to.  I started writing because of kiddo number one, but I didn't really get going until she started taking two solid naps a day.  I don't know if I can last that long without my daily therapy.

So here is my new goal, because I had a writing teacher tell me she did this...

She wrote in her closet for fifteen minutes a day.  Yes, I said closet.  Not that I'm going to go to the closet because it would be too much of a pain to set up in there... but the point is she locked herself away (from the kids) for the few minutes she had and wrote.

So I'm going to write 15 minutes... and maybe sometimes just 5 or 10 if that's all I can do, but I have to do it.
And hopefully that MG word count hanging out over there will slowly increase until someday I'm done.