Hatrack River Writers Workshop: Novel Support Group 1/25

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Posted by Meredith (Member # 8368) on :

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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 now have two books on social media marketing. So . . . I need to read them.
Some. Not very effectively. I need to finish the marketing book and start on the social media marketing books. I'm just going to have to schedule some time for this. [Frown]

MAGE STORM: I need to rethink a few things about the beginning of this one.
I wrote a little on this, but I can't go very far until I figure out some things. [Frown]

MEADOWSWEET: Possibly switch to this one while I mull over what's wrong with MAGE STORM.
Not yet, but I'm about ready to. [Smile]

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 now have two books on social media marketing. So . . . I need to schedule some time to read them.

MAGE STORM:
I need to rethink a few things about the beginning of this one.

MEADOWSWEET:
Start work on this one while I mull over what's wrong with MAGE STORM.

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)

I need to schedule something for the Become series. It'd help if they had any reviews.

Posted by extrinsic (Member # 8019) on :

A guidance from Dave Roorbach's Writing Life Stories (CNF) gentled a logjam's release for the project foremost on my plate. Map it out. Sketch a map of a setting's situation. The map helped visualize the scene more vividly.

Thoughts arise about a full 3-D simulation of the scene and others through Anim8or free 3-D software, which does highwire acrobatics at robust speed on a system with many gigs RAM and Windows 10 OS. A static 3-D stage, though, for this, not for an animation project. Anima8or site.

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

In one of my novels the heroes are besieged in a small fortress. The only way to make sense of a series of combats over a time span lasting more than a month required much mapping and kriegspeiling. The only way to know where I was at any point in the narrative.

Phil.

Posted by extrinsic (Member # 8019) on :

Respect! And if a writer holds a sense of a complex space, readers might therefrom sense the space as well.

Some progress on the space 3-D mapped for my project. Barbed and concertina wire-topped cyclone wire fences are one of the challenges met. The 3-D map, though, showed the space should be indoors instead of outdoors. Huh wow!? Indoor "zoo" cages for trivial offender constraint and humiliation, like, instead of livestock fences and corrals.

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

I'm not too sure how much wire frame modelling is required in Anima8or but you might also like to take a look at this: Frame Forge

It's pre-vis storyboard software. I've got an old 'full' version but I doubt it would run on modern computers. The software is date tagged 2007.

Phil.