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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.
Very little. [Frown]

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.

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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Grumpy old guy
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The Everyman Protocol:

Well, a week has passed and what have I done? Not much at all is the answer, but there are reasons. The first is an announcement in the press that got my attention: the ‘discovery’ of the deep biosphere--read THIS . This added a wrinkle, do I need to go into outer-space or can I just stay here and examine the possible folly of bringing some of this stuff to the surface. Story-wise, I need to ‘develop’ my alien/domestic nasty, before I can even set up the plot. If any of you have read The Legacy of Heorot by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle and Steven Barnes you’ll understand what I mean; the grendel’s life cycle determined a great deal of the plot. And they had the services of a reproduction and fertility expert, Dr jack Cohen, to help design that aspect of the creature. All I’ve got is little old me. This story may be a non-starter.

That leaves me with a decision to make, do I dust off my short story, The Ascent of a Man and work on that, or my novel, Daisyworld, which might be affected in some way by the deep biosphere discovery. Implications, implications, decisions, decisions. I just might toss a coin.

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