The Real Steph

Thoughts on Writing and Life

ROW 80

on June 26, 2012

I participated (and failed) last round on my book blog: The Fake Steph Dot Com.  However, this is a more appropriate space for these posts and I’m hoping that I will be much more successful in round three.  My major goal will be to increase writing time without affecting work or working out.

Goal for before the round starts: Finish the zero draft (thanks Ashelynn, I’m stealing your word) of SMG.

Goals for Round Three:

  • 500 words or 30 minutes rewriting at least 5 days a week.
  • Miss no more than three check-ins during the round.

Projects to work on:

  • Fantasy novel zero draft
  • YA1 rewrite

The queue for if I don’t fail miserably:

  • The superhero screenplay board and draft
  • rewrite YA1
  • rewrite SMG
  • The Friend Breakup Screenplay board and draft
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11 Responses to “ROW 80”

  1. ah, how I love zero drafts . . . except for when I’m staring one in the face. (Like I am right now, ha ha ha ha.)

    good luck, Steph! we can both not fail miserably this round!

  2. John Holton says:

    A zero draft… I like it! Good luck on ROW80.

  3. Alana says:

    I’m doing Row80 too. Good luck on your goals!

  4. Gene Lempp says:

    Good goals, Steph – real or fake I think you’re okay. Nice to see someone use the term “zero draft” besides me. I think it is a way of reminding ourselves not to take that first run too seriously, which I find helps. All the best for the coming round, you’re going to do fantastic!

  5. Dahnya Och says:

    Zero draft? That sounds interesting! What does it involve?

    Oh, uh, and good luck this round. Something something – tell me what zero draft is :3

    • fakesteph says:

      zero draft is basically a rough draft. It’s one you write just to get it down on paper with absolutely no expectations and you call it a zero draft because you are letting it be so bad that you can’t even call it a first draft. Ashelynn explains it better. Like…in my zero draft, i forgot the stepmoms name and instead of reading back through to find it, I just wrote [stepmom] in place of her name and i’ll fix it when i turn it into a first draft.

      • Dahnya Och says:

        Bah, WordPress ate my comment. Silly thing.

        Redo!

        So, Zero Draft is what I’ve been doing for Fast Draft, just with a much cooler name. Awesome to know! I’ll have to poke around about it. Thanks!

        I love using brackets that way. The search and replace tool ends up becoming my best friend during editing…

    • fakesteph says:

      So it won’t let me reply again, because I have my settings set poorly, but… I totally just signed up for Fast Draft and Revision Hell.

      • Dahnya Och says:

        Oh good, I’m not the only one.

        FD/RH has been so wonderful to me so far. I mean, that is, if I’d stop commenting on blogs. *cough* Vicious cycle and all that.

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