Here are some more photos of Christmas Trees.  These ones are from the Eastside RWA Holiday Party hosted by Dana Schmeller, the Eastside RWA president.  Thank you Dana for a great party (and for the photos)!

   


Dana has some very interesting ornaments. Look closely at the next two photos

     

1. October: Attended the 2009 ECWC (Emerald City Writer's Conference) and signed up for the Cherry Adair Finish the Damn Book Challenge.  Need to write and polish a book by 10/1/2010.
2. November: Participated in the NaNoWriMo Challenge to 50K words in 30 days. 
3. December: Created a personal goal of writing 35K words by 12/31/2009.
4. Overall 2009: Created a personal goal to finish the draft of Obsession with around 110K words.

October - The book I chose to write for the Cherry Adair Challenge is Obsession .  I committed to finishing this book by 10/1/2010 with around 100K words.  I'm well on my way to meeting this goal.   In fact, I plan to have the book agent ready by April 2010.

November - As published on my blog, this goal was met on 11/25/2009.

December - I'm currently at 29474/35000 which means I have 5526 words left to write in the next 4 days.  I'm pretty sure I can do it. 

Overall 2009 - The draft of Obsession is pretty much already finished.  I will strive to complete the remaining 5526 words because I'm that type of person.  Once I set a goal, I make it happen   The only remaining parts of the story are some scenes in the villain's point of view which I needed to write after the main story was written.  I call this threading.  You write one thread of the story and then weave in a second (or third) thread.

I'm trying my darnedest to finish the 5526 so I can break out my Goal Reward bottle of Cook's Champagne.  Don't worry, it's only a small bottle - about 2 glasses!

By the way, to  get (almost) daily updates, check out my website www.kristinecayne.com. On the home page, there is a Facebook badge containing my status updates.  I try to post word count daily so it's easier for all of you to follow along in this wonderful journey of mine.

Goals for 2010

I'm hoping that 2010 will be as good a year for me as the end of 2009 has been.  And, I'm writing my 2010 goals with that in mind.

1. Finish final draft of Obsession by 3/01/2010
2. Send Obsession to Beta Reviewers by 3/07/2010
3. Finish updates to Obsession based on Beta Reviewer comments by 4/11/2010
4. Send Obsession to Agents by 4/30/2010
5. Start working on draft of 2nd Novel by 5/1/2010
6. Finish first draft of 2nd Novel by 7/30/2010
7. Finish final draft of 2nd Novel by 9/30/2010
8. Send 2nd Novel to Beta Reviewers by 10/7/2010
9. Participate in NaNoWriMo 2010 to start draft of 3rd Novel (50K words)
10. Finish updated to 2nd Novel based on Beta Reviewer comments by 12/30/2010
11. Send 2nd Novel out to Agents by 1/7/2011.

So there you have it everyone.  If everything goes according to my plans, by the end of 2010 I will have finished 2 novels had have started a third.  Yes, it's ambitious but I've always felt that in order to make anything happen, you have to reach high.  With everyone's support, I can do this!  Now I just need to come up with some appropriate rewards.  Champagne is great but I don't want to become a lush.  That might be counterproductive

I'd love to attach a reward to 2010 each goal in my list.  Do you have any suggestions?  What are your 2010 goals and how to do plan to reward yourself?

Thank you all so much for your support!  And please, keep sending me your comments.  I love to hear from you.

Happy Writing,
Kristine