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Meredith
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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:

DUAL MAGICS SERIES:
As time permits, go through the x-ray listings for the Dual Magics boxed set and THE BARD'S GIFT. This is here to remind me that eventually I need to get back to this.
[Razz]

BECOME: TO CATCH THE LIGHTNING/BECOME: TO RIDE THE STORM:
Promote through social media. I really need to find a way to become more effective at this. I really have to get back to that marketing book.
Some. [Smile]

MAGE STORM: Get back to work on this rewrite.
Some. [Smile]

OTHER:
Update my blog twice a week.
Yes. [Smile]

Next Week's Goals:

DUAL MAGICS SERIES:
As time permits, go through the x-ray listings for the Dual Magics boxed set and THE BARD'S GIFT. This is here to remind me that eventually I need to get back to this.

BECOME: TO CATCH THE LIGHTNING/BECOME: TO RIDE THE STORM:
Promote through social media. I really need to find a way to become more effective at this. I really have to get back to that marketing book. Also, I do have an ad for this scheduled for this week.

MAGE STORM:
Work on this rewrite.

OTHER:
Update my blog twice a week.

List of published books just to remind me of all the things I should be paying at least some attention to:

Blood Will Tell (Chimeria #1)
Blood Is Thicker (Chimeria #2)
Fire and Earth
The Bard's Gift
Daughter of the Disgraced King
The Shaman's Curse (Dual Magics #1)
The Voice of Prophecy (Dual Magics #2)
Beyond the Prophecy (Dual Magics #3)
War of Magic (Dual Magics #4)
Become: To Catch the Lighting (Become #1)
Become: To Ride the Storm (Become #2)

Consider setting up a short promo for some of those in KU (that's Fire and Earth, The Bard's Gift, and Daughter of the Disgraced King, as well as most of my short fiction.) for the end of the month. I can't do anything on these until after 12/26, because that's when the new KU term starts and I've already used all their promo days for this term.)

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Grumpy old guy
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Has this been a productive week writing wise? No, not particularly. That is until yesterday afternoon when some bug bit me in the fundament.

The Everyman Protocol:

I may have found a starting point for designing my alien. A lot of creatures lay their eggs within the living bodies of others, paralysing them without killing them so when the eggs hatch there is fresh meat on hand. There is, however, one particular group of parasites that do more than just eat their hosts from the inside, they use mind control to change their behaviour.

Zombies are real! See THIS LIST and read THIS .

The Ascent of a Man:

I took out my paperwork concerning this story a few days ago and have been trying to get my head into the right frame of mind for the battle with Satan. In addition, I was reviewing the draft of the story’s beginning and, sad to say, was mightily unimpressed; it’s all narrator tell.

Last night as I was looking at all the scribbles I had drawn over my freshly printed draft I realised I had to treat this as I would any other battle; get close up and personal. In a word (or 4), narrow the narrative distance. Make it almost first person, direct perception while maintaining some third person distance where appropriate.

So, in the end, it was a fairly productive week. I just had to let unbidden inspiration kick me in the butt.

Phil.

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