Starting on February 1, I joined the members of the New Jersey Romance Writers and participated in their February 30K for 28 days challenge.
To those of you who aren’t writers, this is a challenge where by you write a minimum of 30,000 words in whatever you are working on during the 28 days of this month. The goal is to write to 30K, but in my mind, it was really to get into the mood and habit of writing something every single day.
Many days I had over 3000 words to show for my efforts of sitting down at my desk and not moving my butt for hours.
Many days I had less than 1000 words to show for the same efforts.
Yesteray, Febraury 17, I hit my 30,000 word goal. Not bad. A little over 2 and half weeks and I nailed it.
And since I haven’t finished the book I’ve been working on, I’m continuing with the challenge until the end of the month or I finish the book – whatever comes first!
This was just what I needed to get me motivated and going, so a big thank you to the New Jersey Romance writers for the impetus, all the daily love and praise, and the challenge itself!
This is the book I’m working on:
Her job as an assistant wedding planner means everything to Charity Quinn. She’s got a bullet-point plan for her future, and she’s not about to let anything get in the way of her goals. But a drunken hookup with a coworker – a guy she’s had a hate/hate relationship with from the get-go – may put her plan in jeopardy. Charity has to ensure her boss never finds out about her indiscretion. But every day it’s getting harder to hide how much she wants a repeat of that amazing night.
Or at least she thinks it was amazing. Seems Charity can’t quite remember the details.
His life is a series of one-night stands and Kolby O’Brian’s not about to change his status for anyone – not even the little fireball who’s been the bane of his existence since the first day they met. Why, then, are his eyes always straying to Charity when he should be concentrating on work? And why does being around her suddenly make him want to be a different kind of man? A better one? One who thinks about…the future?
These two polar opposites need to decide if they want a future together or a life without the other in it, because an emotional volcano is churning and it’s about to erupt.
Peggy Jaeger, Author 