Ready. Set. WRITE! update

Nope, still can’t tell you my exciting news. I am about to pop with excitement – have never been good at waiting! But this is teaching me some patience I suppose.
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So, here is my Ready. Set. Write! 2014 update instead:
1. How I did on last week’s goal(s)

I didn’t achieve my word goal but I did manage to get on with my poetry and the play – hooray! I got to 25,436 words.

2.  My goal(s) for this week.

Reach 28,000 words and edit what I have so far. (Have my MA residency and am going to Bangkok on Wednesday so won’t have much prose writing time.)

3.  A favourite line from my story OR one word/phrase that sums up what I wrote/revised.

I look back out into the darkening forest. I see something in the trees, something strange enough to catch my eye; a shape, a bit like clump of leaves but denser, too irregular to be fruit. It seems to be pulsing, like a dark heart.

Oooo what can it be?

4.  The biggest challenge I faced this week (ex. finding time to write).

Self doubt. Yep, that old chestnut.

5.  Something I love about my WiP

Its simplicity. It is unravelling neatly, like a spool of thread, and all I have to do is follow it.