Back to Work

I don’t make resolutions, but I do set goals. A year ago, I wrote these things on a 3×5 index card:

• Tab SCHOOLED with Donald Maass workshop notes (Did it.)
• Write O’Keeffe/Dickens paper. (I did the research.)
• Rewrite SCHOOLED. (I finished lessons 1-14 and 34 of Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook.)
• Create a comic throughline for three new books. (I did it for one new book.)
• Choose one of the throughlines and create: a collage (Did it.), scene cards (Did it.), a rough draft in longhand (Did it!)

This year’s 3×5 looks like this:

For SCHOOLED:

• Finish Lessons 15-33 of Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook.
• Write a synopsis.
• Clean, refine, and edit a final draft.
• Query.

for LAND OF ENCHANTMENT:

• Type it.
• Write the second draft using the Breakout Novel Workbook, Lessons 1-34.
• Write a synopsis.

Research FEARLESS and write a throughline.