Year of Win, Day 26: I Think I Can, I Think I Can

Good morning campers! Hot enough for you? We’re having a new roof put on, and our crew spends 12:30 to 4:30 each day in the shade under my trees. Then they work until 9 pm. Mercy.

Quick ROW80 check in. I surpassed my goals this week—I added about 3000 words to my near-final WIP, added a few words to my current WIP, and wrote a short story for the heck of it. It didn’t feel like I got much done (the current WIP is languishing which frustrates me), but when I added it up, the week went better than I thought. Here’s hoping for a good writing weekend!

Year of win news….we have some great blog posts planned for August (a few big things to celebrate!). For this week, I’d like to celebrate all the writers plugging away, hoping, dreaming, waiting for an agent call, for a sale, for publication in a short-fiction magazine or contest. These are the dog days, and it’s tough to go after it week after week, not knowing if the dream is close at hand or still in the distance. I was lucky enough to meet Laurie Halse Anderson last month at an event in Dallas. When she signed my copy of FORGE, she also wrote a PS, tell me it was the secret to a successful writing career: DON’T QUIT.

That’s what the Year of Win is about.