Goals What are Your Goals for the Week of August 19th, 2019

[Sunny Irene Roth]

Hi ladies,

What are your goals for this week?

Please post them under this thread.

Take care, and have a productive week.

Irene S. Roth

 

[Lille]

Hi Everyone,
My goals for this week are:

Make a list of all my characters and identify how they move the plot and subplot of the story. Identify those characters that need to be eliminated or combined.

Examine the subplot(s). My plot is good, no problems there. The subplot(s) are a mess.
My main plot is the romance between Johanna and Conrad.....all the elements are there.
The subplot(s) are a political system that has a priority in Conrad's life and Johanna also becomes involved in helping to make it happen. Conflict with a rival ruling family that wants to see Conrad's family fail so they can take over.

Lille

 

[Cynthia Capley]

My goal is to write 500 words a day this week.

 

[D.L. Gioe]

My goal is to get a handle on where my MG submissions stand and make sure that I've got at least 10 queries out to agents. Included in this is the need to review my query letter and first couple chapters, since I'm at about 12 rejections so far - most of which have just said "didn't fall in love with this, but it's subjective so please keep submitting." I'd really like to at least get to the point where I'm getting requests for more material before getting rejected, so I'm hoping a tough scrub of the QL and first pages will yield some AHA! moments. If anyone wants to swap QLs and fist pages, I'd love to do that!

In addition, my goal is to write every day this week, to reinstitute that as habit.

I'm also really appreciating this section on travel writing, so I'd like to get caught up with the homework and see where that leads.