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:
DUAL MAGICS SERIES: As time permits, go through the x-ray listings for the Dual Magics boxed set and THE BARD'S GIFT. Well, now that it's summer, maybe I'll get around to this. Probably not this week, though. I was right. I didn't get around to it last week.
BECOME: TO CATCH THE LIGHTNING: Promote through social media. A little.
BECOME: TO RIDE THE STORM: Move forward with the first draft. Try to get about two more chapters down. The goal is to finish this first draft by the first week in September. I'm on Chapter 33, 62,000 words in. Yes. I am now on Chapter 37 and 69,000 words.
DUAL MAGICS SERIES: As time permits, go through the x-ray listings for the Dual Magics boxed set and THE BARD'S GIFT. Well, now that it's summer, maybe I'll get around to this. Probably not this week, though.
BECOME: TO CATCH THE LIGHTNING: Promote through social media.
BECOME: TO RIDE THE STORM: Move forward with the first draft. Try to get about two more chapters down. The goal is to finish this first draft by the first week in September. I'm on Chapter 37, 69,000 words in.
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A technique from a creative nonfiction text and courses comes in handy for creating a scene's physical layout: Bill Roorbach Writing Life Stories, "Mapmaking," for memory access and research. The memory access part is CNF's greater emphasis. Worldbuilding is a fiction parallel, more so emphasizes research, fantastic fiction in particular, yet how does a writer "remember" an invented milieu, time, place, and situation, events, and personas, especially emotional textures?
A conundrum and the crux of the matter, that is, invented memories and stimuli and responses for the works on my draft boards. A map's physical layout (maybe plan, elevation, and side views, maybe an orthographic view from one site), and a bubble map's free association annotations to those, and personal in-person and the vicarious reader experiences of events, places, and personas thereof, too, for appetizers.
My mind was stuck at a one-eighty degrees backward and ninety degrees off skew perspective for the foreground work on the draft board -- how normally I would approach, say, a courthouse: from the front. Or a mega store, park, fuel station, fast food drive-thru, anywhere. That approach how is calculated to herd and corral and capture nonconscious patrons, etc., where management and leadership wants. Odd, too, even staff and service entrances function the same. Does not prose, also, funnel readers' focus where a writer wants?
How I loathe prose that overtly shows the focus manipulation, cynically, probably; not much fonder of prose that covertly persuades focus. Nor appreciative of trackless wilderness wanders until a firm direction comes into focus, either. A satisfaction for me, then, could be satire commentary about such cattle call summons and powerless to resist, to refuse, to rebel!? Where there's a way, there's a will of a warranted cause to deviate from presupposed and planned control and manipulation notions of mass culture propriety.
Roorbach's map exercise game me full realization for the foreground work's tone and undercurrents, and new realization of myself and my personal agora complications and conflicts as personal aesthetics focuses.
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