Sunday, October 30, 2011

Write1Sub1: The Novel Edition

So, Samuel aka "Izz" on AW began this thread regarding a novel version of W1S1. Of course since novels are so much more complex when it comes to planning out goals beyond NaNoWriMo, there are no actual set guidelines--only that one writes, edits/revises as needed and subs in whatever time frame works, 1 novel or many.

I thought about the challenge for a while then came up with the following plan:

There are 5 novels I want to work on and get to the querying stage: SQ, TP, PoN, BC & M (I'm a bit superstitious about putting their names 'out there' before completion). The plan below has this happening by January 2013, 1 year and 3 months from now which seems possible since 3 of the 5 have had work done (35-52k words written) so only 2 are completely new.

November 2011 (NaNoWriMo): Write new novel (SQ)

December 2011: Edit/revise/beta-test SQ,
Outline, then revise/edit NNWM '10 novel draft (TP)

January 2012: Continue SQ edits, then QUERY SQ

February 2012: Continue TP edits, beta-test TP

March 2012: QUERY TP

April 2012: Work on NNWM '07 novel draft: PoN (write/revise/outline)

May 2012: Continue PoN edits, beta-test PoN

June 2012: QUERY PoN

July 2012: Work on NNWM '08 short story collection: BC (write more stories)

August 2012: Continue work on BC stories, beta-test individual stories

September 2012: QUERY BC

October 2012: Outline/plot new novel (M) *NB-possible re-incarnation of NNWM '09 novel draft attempt: EoS

November 2012 (NaNoWriMo): Write new novel (M)

December 2012: Edite/revise M, beta-test M

January 2013: QUERY M

Looking good! I've got to get some solid outlines going to accomplish this so I'm really working on those.

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