• 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 did not do any writing again this week. My work project has been keeping my very busy unfortunately. Hopefully it will let up after the holidays or over. I hope.

My goals for next week:

• Brainstorming characterization for main character
• Develop mutually exclusive internal conflicts

I have the same goals as always for now. I'm hoping I may be able to do something during the Christmas holiday. I'm not giving up.

What did I learn this week?

Nothing here. Good luck to everyone else!

Last Week's Goals:

DREAMER'S ROSE: Continue to let this one rest.
Okay, I can take credit for this one.

THE SHAMAN'S CURSE: Work on this query.
Yes. I did. In fact, I think I may finally be getting to something I like.

THE IGNORED PROPHECY: Wait for feedback.
Still waiting.

BLOOD WILL TELL: Think a little about a possible sequel.
No, I can't say I gave this much thought.

SEVEN STARS: No specific goals for this one.
I didn't do anything on this at all.

OTHER: Work on revisions to my two short stories, Dragons Are Forever and The Seeker, so I can get them out there.
No.

This Week's Goals:

This week's goals will be the same as last. I can't really work on anything very much until I get set up on a clean machine. It'll probably take me a while to get everything back together. Some things I know I'll just have to type back in. However. I will be ready to start exchanges and critiques again sometime next week--early next week, I hope. So get ready BoredCrow, Unwritten, Kitti, and Merlion.

DREAMER'S ROSE:
Continue to let this one rest.

THE SHAMAN'S CURSE:
Work on this query. I'd really like to start sending this back out before the first of the year.

THE IGNORED PROPHECY:
Wait for feedback.

BLOOD WILL TELL:
Think a little about a possible sequel. I love these characters.

SEVEN STARS:
No specific goals for this one. This is my playground right now.

OTHER:
Same as the last three weeks. I still need to work on revisions to my two short stories, Dragons Are Forever and The Seeker, so I can get them out there.

THIS WEEK
Conquering the YA query letter is at the top of my list. Next, I will tone up my WotF entry (seems to be a lot of that going on here...!). After that, it's back to my mainstream novel.

LEARN ANYTHING?
Organizing a writing challenge isn't as horrifying as I imagined it to be. Probably because I still don't know what I'm doing.

Goals: Try the snowflake method to tighten up the plot

I did pretty well. I may be 200 words short on my 2K/day due to some refactoring that I did mid-week. But that refactoring set up the rest of my story. I'm hoping that the extra planning work will pay off in reduced editing time. I guess we'll see, eh? I met the rest of my goals. Yay me!

-I also read and critted a novel last week. I found that a very useful exercise.

Next week I plan to:
-write at least 2000 new words each day.
-keep my SuperNoteCard deck up to date on structural and character changes.
-complete a rewrite on a short story that I have targeted to send next friday. It's nearly done but needs one more go around.
-Read and crit at least 2 shorts this week.

WIP: Heart of Silver (formerly titled Thought Package)

Novel length SF piece. The initial setting is a remote colony world. One of the MCs, the colony doctor, receives a very large box with the latest supply shipment. Turns out there's a person inside. Once awoken it is quickly discovered that he is another doctor and a mindreader who claims to be there in response to a want ad for more help at the sole clinic. Nobody believes him of course and the mystery is who he is, where he's from, why he's there and what is he running from. And add to that what will happen when the next ship comes in six months.

My goals for this week are:

-to finish 2 scenes I started last week, one is near the middle linking a big chunk of the story to several previously written flashback sections. The other is near the end.
-to find out some bits of medical research I need to write the next scene in my head.

Learn Anything:

-This gets real boring when you treat it like work!
-Jan really doens't want to go home and work for the Institute that controled his life up to this point! In contrast Ryan does...