• 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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Last Week's Goals

I had goals last week? It is so difficult to believe that it is Friday already. With work and the holidays time is flying by. Needless to say, I did not accomplish a thing.

My goals for next week:

• Brainstorming characterization for main character

I just need to do something for my novel this week. Anything.

What did I learn this week?

Nothing here.

Last Week's Goals:

Dreamer's Rose: Let it rest for a bit.
Well, that was easy.

The Shaman's Curse: Stop obsessing about the check lists and get back to work on the query and synopsis.
Not so easy to get myself back to work on these. But I have to do it.

The Ignored Prophecy: Start mapping out the revision to the first couple of chapters. I think it will tighten up the opening.
Other than letting it roll around in my head a little, nothing here.

Blood Will Tell:
Continue working on the revisions. Get to work on the query letter and synopsis.
I'm only three chapters from the end on the first revision, but I'm temporarily stalled. And I already have some notes for the second revision. I did start on the synopsis.

I did also write a 3000 word short story, which might, at some point, clean up fairly well.

This Week's Goals:

Dreamer's Rose:
Continue to let it rest.

The Shaman's Curse:
Alright, enough is enough. I can procrastinate with the best of them. But I need to get the query and synopsis fixed and start sending this out again. Really.

The Ignored Prophecy: Start the revision to the first couple of chapters.

Blood Will Tell: Finish up the first revision. Work on the synopsis and the query.

On the nano front (which I was supposed to ignore until after the RWC deadline) I've written 28,000 words and it's early Friday yet. No way is the current draft going to be publishable without a start-to-finish overhaul and maybe even complete rewrite, but I find it fascinating what parts of my life I'm mining to plow through this thing. Even in my urban fantasy, I've never given a character so much of my Self as I've given this one. A bit scary, actually.

Goal for this week is to write one chapter. A small goal, perhaps, but I just can never seem to actually sit down and write, instead preferring to just imagine the scenes in my head.