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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.


BECOME: TO CATCH THE LIGHTNING: 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. Still need to read that book.

BECOME: TO RIDE THE STORM: Finish the polishing edit. Come up with a more strategic launch plan.
Done. And up for pre-order.

MAGE STORM: Hold for revisions to BECOME: TO RIDE THE STORM.
Easy one.

OTHER:
Update my blog twice a week.
Yes.

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:
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.

BECOME: TO RIDE THE STORM:
Promote the pre-order.

MAGE STORM:
Get back to 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)

Start working on a promotion for BECOME: TO CATCH THE LIGHTNING to precede and coincide with the launch of the sequel, BECOME: TO RIDE THE STORM.
 

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Posted by Grumpy old guy (Member # 9922) on :
 
The Everyman Protocol:

A Sci/Fi short story about the discovery of an alien life-form and the cliche obvious stupidity of bringing it aboard the spaceship.

Think of it as derivative of Alien/The Thing. And that's a huge problem for me. I dragged out my single page of scribbled notes and, right at the bottom it says exactly that.

So, my whiteboard now has two columns. Under "Story" it has two notes: High risk of melodrama and cliche. Next, can I use this problem artfully. Need to think about that.

Under "Alien" it lists my requirements for an "authentic" alien rather than a "B grade movie" parody.

# Must be so fascinating a scientist would do anything to examine it.
# Non malevolent.
# Invasive/parasitic.
# Extremophile. Combine characteristics?
# Closed ecosystem.

The last two items are fertile areas for 'real-world' bizarre life-forms and are going to require a lot of research. Lucky me.

Phil.

[ December 07, 2018, 07:59 PM: Message edited by: Grumpy old guy ]
 

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Posted by extrinsic (Member # 8019) on :
 
Consider the full significance of "Everyman." Dictionaries do little justice to the term, 1908 coin asserted, yet etymology refers to a fifteenth century philosophic allegory play's title: The Summoning of Everyman, first coin, (Fordham.edu hosted, Modern English, full text version).

Everyman is called to grace and to answer for his measure of "good and evil," Original Sin's duality of humanity's greatest wicked selfishness and greatest social responsibility curses, blessings, and gifts received of God by any of ten thousand names.

Peculiar -- original coins are often of the fullest substance; perpetual dilution toward nada follows.
 

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Posted by Grumpy old guy (Member # 9922) on :
 
I was unaware of that connection. The idea for the name came from commercial law and the 'reasonable person' test. Somehow a story with the title, 'The Reasonable Person', didn't sound too appealing.

Phil.
 

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