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Welcome to this week's Novel Support Group (NSG). 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:

FIRE AND EARTH (formerly known as SEVEN STARS): Continue promoting.
Yes.

BLOOD IS THICKER: Format for Smashwords. Begin to formulate a publication plan.
Yes.

THE BARD'S GIFT: Send out three queries.
Yes.

MAGE STORM: Work on the query, pitches, and synopsis. Start working through the last round of critiques. (Down to the little stuff.)
Yes.

MAGIC AND POWER: Maybe start the third draft, depending on how everything else goes.
Nope. Finished the third draft.

OTHER:
Update my blog twice a week.
Yes.

Next Week's Goals:

FIRE AND EARTH (formerly known as SEVEN STARS):
Continue promoting.

BLOOD IS THICKER:
Recheck Smashwords format. Formulate a publication plan.

THE BARD'S GIFT:
Send out three queries.

MAGE STORM:
Work on the query, pitches, and synopsis. Wait for the last two critiques to come back.

MAGIC AND POWER:
Rest.

THE SHAMAN'S CURSE:
I'm taking another look at this oldie. See what I can do with it.

WEIRD OZ STORY:
(That won't really be the title. I just don't have one yet.)
Start.

OTHER:
Update my blog twice a week.
 

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Posted by InarticulateBabbler (Member # 4849) on :
 
Finished my first draft, it weighed in at 234,031 words (roughly 1071 pages). And, I wrote a 500 outline. Since then it's been research.
 

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Posted by Kathleen Dalton Woodbury (Member # 59) on :
 
Congrats, Rich.
 

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Posted by History (Member # 9213) on :
 
Mazel tov!
 

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Posted by InarticulateBabbler (Member # 4849) on :
 
Thanks.
 

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Posted by arriki (Member # 3079) on :
 
Mine's not finished yet. Sigh. Good for you IB.

I added 6709 new words to chapter 14. I skipped ahead to write this. It holds one of the major moments in the novel. Sam realizes finally that he's not crazy, he's not having a nightmare, he IS on a far distant world over a hundred years later than his last memory where he was on Earth.

Fun stuff - for the reader. At least, I hope so.
 

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Posted by LDWriter2 (Member # 9148) on :
 
Yes, I worked on one novel.


Today I worked on revising the last chapter of my Two Struggles novel. I forgot I needed to do some clean up, one scene was kinda jumbled. And I added to my MC's last struggle. Made it tougher and clearer.

I think it was over four hundred words. Funny thing is that while writing the final battle I felt the same way I do when I read that type of battle. Tension-What's going to happen next? I better not be interrupted, yay go get them.
 

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Posted by wetwilly (Member # 1818) on :
 
Way to go, babbler!

Last week, wrote new words in Soul of the Machine (working title) every day but one (missed due to a family trip), so goal missed, but close enough for me.

Goal this week: type "THE END" on first draft. I think I'll be joining babbler in the "finished my novel 1st draft" club this week. I'm probably fewer than 20 pages away. At which point, of course, the real work can begin.

Also, thinking about putting my old novel, which I still believe in but have never gotten any bites on, out as a serial on watt pad.

EDIT: "THE END" reached. Now to start plowing through all the notes of intended changes I made in the process of writing the draft. Once I finish those, I will consider draft 1 really finished. Or maybe draft 1.5.

[ July 21, 2013, 10:43 PM: Message edited by: wetwilly ]
 

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