Writing status update (#49)

Because of the way the calendar has fallen it hasn’t been a month since my last report on my progress developing the Shine Cycle, but it’s been four weeks, so it’s time to give an update.

In the past weeks, I have, as I had hoped, managed steady and consistent progress, if not as much as I had wished. And, consistent with that general sense of the period, I met some but not all of the goals I set for the period:

Make consistent progress: I’ll count this as a success if each week I accomplish 15 “points” in my task tracker.

Success. 21, 23, 18, and 20.

Finish “snowflake step 5” for The Invasion, which means (by the current plan) creating “character synopses” for eight more characters.
As a good start on “snowflake step 6,” get through the first paragraph of the “one-page” synopsis that I will be expanding into a “multi-page” synopsis.

These, on the other hand, remained stubbornly out of reach. I finished “character synopses” for all but two of the characters, but didn’t get to those two yet, and thus haven’t even started on the multi-page synopsis.

Create “motivation summaries” for at least two characters.

Done. But only two, not more.

Write personal histories of at least two characters.

I counted it something of a victory to finally finish the one character history this past week. But one is still fewer than two.

Now, for the next month or so, here’s what I think that, God willing, I can accomplish:

Maintain consistent progress, at least 18 “points” every week in my task tracker, and at the point I’m checking my progress a four-week average of at least 21.
Finish “snowflake step 5” for The Invasion by creating the last two “character synopses.”
Do “snowflake step 6” for The Invasion: convert each of the four paragraphs of the “one-page” synopsis” into “a page.”
For “snowflake step 7” of The Invasion, create a “character chart” for at least one character.
Write personal histories of at least two characters.

We shall see.

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