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On Goals and Verse Novels

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Here’s my plan for March: I commit to writing four poems five days a week on my new verse novel. I’m twenty or so poems in at this point, and if I hold to this schedule, will have a manuscript that resembles something book-ish by the end of the month.

I’ve always found word-count goals — especially with verse novels — utterly defeating. This feels challenging but realistically doable.

What are your current goals?

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  1. Linda Jackson says

    March 7, 2012 at 1:27 pm

    Hi Caroline,
    I find wordcount goals utterly defeating too.
    Thankfully, I’m participating in March Madness this month, and it helped me set goals. I’ve already accomplished goal #1: I started a new blog and am actively blogging.
    And #2 is to complete my current WIP. Like I said, I don’t do specific daily wordcounts, but I do know I plan to finish…which means I’ll probably hole myself in the house at the end of March to do that.

    BTW- I went back to reading The Wednesday Wars, and I’m really enjoying it.

    Have a great day!

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  2. Harvee says

    March 7, 2012 at 1:29 pm

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  3. Harvee says

    March 7, 2012 at 1:31 pm

    I think Microsoft Word will do a word count for me and there are also websites that will count for you! Good luck with your verse novel. I toyed with the idea myself.

    Free verse?

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  4. Caroline Starr Rose says

    March 7, 2012 at 2:24 pm

    Linda, glad to hear you picked it up again. Tell me what you think when you finish.

    Harvee, yep, free verse, like my book, May B.

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  5. Shelli (srjohannes) says

    March 7, 2012 at 11:35 pm

    write book 2 🙂

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