Not quite sure how to check in this Sunday. We're just home after one week away, about 850 miles of driving down to Oregon and back, a wonderful reunion with friends. Despite my best intentions, little was done (except that daily post for April's A-to-Z Blogging Challenge).
1. WRITE. The Seventh Tapestry: Complete plotting, character sketches, and begin drafting scenes. UPDATE: Not much progress here except I'm excited about mapping out what's next, especially because this story will NOT take three years!
- APRIL (next 2 weeks): commitment to drafting storyline and characters for THE SEVENTH TAPESTRY. Most difficult? Deciding on locale and gender!
- MAY: Draft overall scenes and organize into STORY OUTLINE with 4-8 scenes drafted. Divide story into three files for tracking of word count.
- JUNE: Commitment to drafting the entire story.
- JULY: Finish drafting entire story.
- AUGUST: Edit. COVER. Blurb.
- SEPTEMBER: PUBLISH!
3. COMMUNITY & READING. Connect with readers by sending newsletter monthly. Participate actively in ROW80, Insecure Writers Support Group, GoodReads, A-Z April Blogging Challenge, The Internet Writing Workshop. Read x6 books/month. Review x2/month. UPDATE: Read other posts x5 this week, and read 3 books. No reviews yet. Send newsletter by April 30.
4. MARKET. Continue learning and applying new skills, including social media. Learn Instagram. Refine overall marketing plan. Time price break incentives. Identify 2-3 action steps for each month: presentations, readings, ads, launch party, media kit, blog hop, recruit reviewers/reviews. Maybe: Learn how to podcast. UPDATE: Action step for this coming week: Clarify status of contest entry with PNWA. Submit audiobook to two review sites.
5. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT. Improve writing productivity through daily writing on 750words.com Keep current with writing magazines. UPDATE: Currently reading James Scott Bell's Just Write (ideas + exercises), more slowly than I wished. Did write 4 out of 7 days this week, for a total of 1,477 new words on 750words.
AND OTHER: Mostly recovering from that 400 mile drive home yesterday with today spent on laundry and grocery shopping. Did make some progress on Ruthie's Owl Quilt while away (she's 3-1/2 years old now). This is supposed to be an easy quilt with top stitching, but it looked way to raggedy for me, so I'm hand-basting and then top stitching all the pieces. Each block is different and brightly colored. Fun.
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| Ruthie's Owl Quilt 12 blocks, 12x12 |
Still trying to define how much I can walk and what kind of help I might need (cane? wheelchair for museums?) as I adjust to all these new shoes. OK, have a great week.
Let's report good progress by Wednesday, right?
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I like the owl, it's so cute!
ReplyDeleteYou did well considering you've been away and driving around!
I really admire your step by step outline for getting Tapestry done and published. I need to get that committed to my next novel - the one which is totally still just in my head!
ReplyDeleteLove the little owl. And as far as the walking vs cane vs wheelchair - do what you gotta do. I'm the last one to give advice as I am going to power through my own foot problem, but listen to your doctors and your own body, then do what is going to be the best for you.