Edited to remove a lot of unnecessary blather on my part.

It’s time for our first contest update! For those of you who missed it, last week I announced an unofficial Contest for Creative Types to coincide with National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). The rules are pretty simple: at the beginning of the month, I asked the ”contestants” to commit to a creative project and work toward a quantifiable goal.

Our contestants:

Jeremy_A: Project = Novel (Forum Everyone), goal = 10,000 words per week

Colleen Doran: Project = Novel, goal = 50,000 words by end-of-month

Sarah Beach: Project = Novel (Godiva), goal = 50,000 words by end-of-month

Bill Mulligan: Project = Screenplay, goal = ?

Sean Scullion: Project = Screenplay (Triangle), goal = ?

Laurie Sutton: Project = Short Stories, goal = five 10,000-word stories by end-of-month

Me: Project = Comic-Book, goal = four finished pages by end-of-month

(By the way, Sean and Bill Mulligan, I believe you’ll get the most out of this contest if you select a quantifiable goal to work toward and announce it here.)

OK, now that we know who’s playing, it’s time for everyone to report their progress. Since I’m the “ringleader,” I guess I’ll start. I’ve got one page penciled and inked. I’m going to do the lettering digitally and I’ll probably post it over the weekend.

I look forward to updates from the rest of the contestants.