4th ROW80 Check-In
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| A Round of Words in 80 Days |
I copy/pasted the goal list from the most recent Check-in which had been copied from last Wednesday's Check-in which had been copied fom Sunday before last's check-in which had been copied from the previous Friday's post of intent. Tweaking each time as well as crossing off finished goals and adding new ones.
I fell far short of my expectations since Saturday. Due in part to the frantic rush to finish the work on my sister's crocheted birthday gifts (pictured in yesterday's post) before her arrival yesterday and then the spending time with her. Thus there will be little on my goal list checked off.
But per the recommendation of two of my ROW80 commenters I rearranged the bulleted list of tasks under goal four to indicate priority.
___[Blow Me a Candy Kiss part 1; part 2; part 3; part 4; part 5;] -
05-12-2012 Yes on choosing the title. This story is set in my Fruits of the Spirit story world and aspires to be literary. It has elements of romance in it but that is not the primary focus since the couple involved are already married. The focus is on loss and grief over infertility and the death of a child/sibling. Aprox 6000 words.
___05-22-2012 Still have not started re-reading it. Decided last Tuesday I needed fresh eyes so set new goal:
So new goal: Find beta readers
Nothing new to report on this front.
___05-22-2012
2. Spend 30 minutes or more per day reading a book or quality web article on Writing or Publishing from my ever growing TBR of books on writing and/or blogs or websites with professional level content on writing or publishing. Will compile list for future updates.
___05-20-2012 - N
___05-21-2012 - N
___05-22-2012 - N
No reading of any kind in last three days. :(
3. Spend 30 minutes or more per day daydreaming in the story world with pencil and pad at hand. ___05-20-2012 - Y est 1hrs
___05-21-2012 - Y est 2hrs
___05-22-2012 - Y est .5hrs
This has been easy since daydreaming my stories is as natural as breathing for me. Especially when I'm crocheting which I'm doing a lot of this month. What makes the difference is making sure the notebook and pencil are at hand for the quick jots of thoughts.
And there have been some exciting ones.
The importance of this too is that it is getting my head back into it with the expectation that something more than daydreaming will come of it. This is not a minor development. Because of the time spent daydreaming and contemplating the story begins to live in me again. I may not have new words yet but I feel the pressure building that will push them out if I just keep attending to the story world.
ATTENDING. Think on that word awhile and all it implies.
It means paying attention.
But it also means serving as well as being in service to.
4. Spend 30 minutes or more per day on one or more of the following tasks:
___05-20-2012 - N
___05-21-2012 - N
___05-22-2012 - N
No work was done in the list since last Wednesday and I essentially did nothing more than think about the files, the list, the goals and shuffle priorities and contemplate ideas for ways to organize the files. Oh and I added an item--the incomplete short story.
But now I will reorganize the list according to priorities as I see them now.
- Input any material from the daydreaming session into it's appropriate file or task list.
- Clean up the Fruit of the Spirit storyworld worksheet.
Create a master task list in FOS story world worksheet fileand add any actionable task that comes to mind while working with the files: research and fact check, character development, scenes needed etc. Future goals can be taken from this list.- Create topic pages in the FOS story world worksheet file for every character from every existing story and novel finished or in progress that is set in this story world. Add any of the characters known life events to the master timeline.
- Re-read the incomplete short story Home Is Where the Horror Is and consider returning to work on it with an eye toward finishing it this summer.
- Do a line edit of all of the completed short stories
- Blow Me a Candy Kiss
- How Does Your Garden Grow
- Running In Circles
- Of Cats and Claws and Curiosities
- Making Rag Doll Babies and Million Dollar Maybes
- During the line edits consider whether any significant revision is still needed--scenes to add or delete, rearrange or rewrite; timeline issues, facts to confirm or to change--and create an actionable task topic in the file.
- Choose 10 POV level characters from FOS and write a first person rambling monologue for them.
- Write fresh scenes whenever a spark is lit by any of the work on this list or the daydreaming or reading.
- Clean up the 8 NaNo novel files: quarantine the mess, create work space for new writing, and create a system for storing the material salvaged from the mess in such a way as it can be found when needed. i.e. linking it to appropriate topic pages in the FOS story world worksheet.
- ____ The Substance of Things Hoped For 2009
- ____ Mobile Hopes 2008
- ____ Storyteller's Spouse 2006
- ____ Spring Fever 2007
- ____ Brooding Instinct 2005
- ____ Majoring in Marine Biology 2004
- ____ Everything That Rises Must Submerge 2010
- ____ A Trick of Light 2011
- Read and notate the scene text of the 8 NaNo novel files
(some of the work of these last two task can be done concurrently so I was tempted to collapse them under one task and have just one list of the WIP but they are very different tasks when you look close with this last one being more about the writing and the other about information organizing and story outlining. I could conceivably do the work of one task with one novel while doing the work of the other with a different one. The two tasks require different frames of mind.)
- ____ The Substance of Things Hoped For 2009
- ____ Mobile Hopes 2008
- ____ Storyteller's Spouse 2006
- ____ Spring Fever 2007
- ____ Brooding Instinct 2005
- ____ Majoring in Marine Biology 2004
- ____ Everything That Rises Must Submerge 2010
- ____ A Trick of Light 2011
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