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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/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.
Nope.

MAGE STORM: Re-read the original version to try to get back into this, perhaps with a different slant.
Started.

OTHER:
Update my blog twice a week.
Only once.

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:
Re-read the original version to try to get back into this, perhaps with a different slant.

OTHER:
Update my blog twice a week.
 

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Posted by Princesisto (Member # 11113) on :
 
Sorry I've disappeared as I have not had much internet access. As I could not do many things where I have been but write, I have written and written the old-fashioned way: paper and pen. In the past few weeks I have gone from Chapter 32 to Chapter 46 and have the detailed timeline down to the end of the novel: maybe a total of 60 Chapters. Of course, all that has to be put in the manuscript in the cloud but there is much to be said for the old quill and parchment. P
 

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Posted by Kathleen Dalton Woodbury (Member # 59) on :
 
Putting the manuscript into your computer will allow you to do a bit of editing as you go, so that's another advantage of paper and pen.
 

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Posted by Princesisto (Member # 11113) on :
 
And when I ran out of pens, I made an even better discovery: pencils and rubbers!

Such freedom to fix anything anytime with such clarity!

I will always write with them first from now on.

Hey, little seven year old Year 2 kiddies: we ain't got nothin' on you! You use pencils instead of pens and word processors all the time. Now I know why ('cos you have to write fast and you make a lot of mistakes . . . like authors . . .).

Stuff technology!

And for my next discovery, next week . . . the wheel!
 

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