finish revising chapters 1 - 4 for the writers' group April 4th

Due to my monster migrain yesterday, I won’t make the deadline on this goal, which is this evening. I suppose Icould rush to get it finished, but I’d rather take my time and make sure it’s done right. I did, however, make significant progress toward achieving this goal, and all things considered, I’m happy with that, so I’m going to mark this “completed” rather than “give up.”

(BTW, I updated this goal to chapter 1 – 4 only. 1 – 8 would’ve been impossible to do well.)

I made great progress on this goal over the weekend. I printed and marked the crap out of chapters 1 – 4 (which will have to be renumbered because I’ve decided to break them down into shorter chapters) and then turned them over to The Hubby for perusal. There are a few weak spots I want to focus on this week, but for the most part, I’m very happy with the work.

This is the best writing I’ve ever done, and I’m determined to cling to it tenaciously until the book is finished. I don’t want to let this story get away from me.

Now that I’ve moved “finish my novel” farther down my list, this is the first of (hopefully) many smaller goals to help me do just that. I’ll only be reading chapters 4 and 5 (or maybe just 4) at the April 4th meeting, but I feel like I need to re-immerse myself in the story in order to start plugging away at the next chapter. My hope is that by the time I get through tweaking chapters 1 – 8, chapter 9 will be patiently waiting its turn.

Is that asking too much?