It’s about that time of year again.<\/p>\n
Results for 2005:<\/strong> * Finish the third draft of Lost Magic (by June) and send the whole thing to beta readers. – Yep. And submitted it, which goal had been set five years ago.<\/p>\n * Research, outline, and otherwise plan the rewrite of the zeroth draft of the theater book, and then start rewriting it from scratch. – Yep. (Granted, it’s pretty easy to meet a goal that says “start”. Maybe I should set more of those.)<\/p>\n * Do the characterization and description exercises, and critique regularly – No. In fact, I don’t remember what description exercises I’m referring to. I did well at critting for the first half of the year, but once my own book was done, I stopped.<\/p>\n For 2006:<\/strong> * Completely finish the theater book. This is an ambitious goal for me, especially given the slow pace of the past couple months. But I’m not spending five years on a book again.<\/p>\n * Spend more time on writing – that has to happen if I’m going to make the previous goal.<\/p>\n * Do the emotion exercises I said I’d do last year, and do two crits\/month minimum. (Or enough to submit things for critique.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s about that time of year again. Results for 2005: * Stick with the daily writing schedule (7 hours\/week) – Did well enough at this, and surpassed it, for much of the year. Lately things have been backsliding. * Finish … Continue reading
\n* Stick with the daily writing schedule (7 hours\/week) – Did well enough at this, and surpassed it, for much of the year. Lately things have been backsliding.<\/p>\n
\n* Keep sending Lost Magic to agents. One response is still pending, and I need to make a list of more agents to submit to. It’d be more efficient to send to more than two at a time. Probably need to revise my synopsis as well.<\/p>\n