quote:Welcome to this week's Novel Support Group. Anyone can join. If you're new, tell us a bit about who you are and what project you are working on. Feel free to update the NSG Work in Progress thread with your current projects. Although we can report on any number of things, here is a list of suggestions (suggestions welcomed).
What were your goals last week and did you accomplish them? Describe what you worked on. Set goals for next week. Did you learn something during this week?
Here is a list of things that you can do each week as we work on our novels (suggestions welcomed).
Writing on a novel Characterization World Building Relevant research
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As for me:
Last Week's Goals:
MAGE STORM: Wait some more to hear back from publisher. *Twiddles thumbs.* The wait is over. Time to make a new plan.
THE SHAMAN'S CURSE/THE VOICE OF PROPHECY: Nothing more for this week. Easy one.
BEYOND THE PROPHECY: Wait to hear back from the rest of my beta readers. Start making revision notes based on the two critiques that have come back. Yes.
"Becoming Lioness" and "Modgud Gold": Come up with new covers that match the rest of the DUAL MAGICS series better. Done.
MAGIC'S WARRIOR (temporary working title of DUAL MAGICS Book 4): First draft of Chapters 6 and 7. Actually finished Chapter 8.
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Well, I did open up the project file, but only long enough to make sure the backup option was set before I closed it. :/
More productive news - I started in on a short story set in another novel millieux (sp?). So at least that's something. I found myself stuck on the first 13 lines though, revising and polishing instead of charging forward with the story. My suspicion is that this is a bad thing for me, because I can polish until the commas come home, but that leaves me bored with the story.
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Yes, Scot. That's a bad habit I had to break, too. If necessary, try writing long hand for a while. It makes it much harder and more painful to keep obsessively editing the beginning. Worked for me.
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Scot: I hereby give you permission to write a horrible first draft, and the knowledge that all first drafts are horrible. You just have to accept that writing a first draft is just the first step. There will be plenty of time to make the story good, later. It has to exist before you can polish it, though.
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I've decided to revisit a project I sincerely regret abandoning. My goals this week seem simple: figure out how to get past the point I've been stuck on for years, give myself permission to write a terrible first draft, and write out a fresh chapter.
This is going to be incredibly difficult.
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I have done pretty much the same thing and as I learned more about writing I want to get back to it. A couple actually. But when? That's a question for me. If I want it enough I will do it.
And sounds like you want this enough to do it. That is good. Difficult does not make it impossible.
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While I am here I should add my novel dappling or maybe dribbling would be better.
I revised a portion of my Journey of Mystery. Which is what I call Pre-inrustral steampunk fantasy fusion. I think I might be a third of the way through it.
I also finally finished the last tale for my Urban Alchemy short novel. 53,000 to 56,000 words depending how much I add when I revise all of the tales. Seven stories of various lengths from 1,000 to 24,000 words that tell the adventures and efforts of an Alchemist to stop a prankster who is turning deadly. And the lessons he learns along the way.
That's it for novels. I didn't get to revising my "Learning Curve" novel-hopefully some today. Nor did I work on adding to Journey. Maybe during the week.
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