Writing status update (#53)

It’s been over a month since my last “monthly” writing-status update, which was combined with my “goals check” at the end of the third quarter, so it’s past time to look at how well I’ve done on what I hoped at that point to get done in the next several weeks.

Here are the goals that I set back at the beginning of October:

Make consistent progress: I’ll count this as a success if each week I accomplish 27 “points” in my task tracker, though I’m hoping to average more like twice that.

This was a mostly-resounding success; three of the five weeks since then were well over twice that rate, and the other two I still managed to exceed it by what now looks like a comfortable margin. The average was about 60.

Write “character histories” for at least two characters.

I wrote five.

Create a “character logline” or “motivation summary” for at least two characters.

Success, but I only exactly met this goal.

Outline at least eleven of the identified sequences of The Invasion by scene.

Done: my outline of The Invasion by scene is complete.

Now, for the next month or so, here’s what I hope to finish, God willing:

Make steady and consistent progress: I’ll count this as a success if each week I accomplish 30 “points” in my task tracker and average at least 40. I’m hoping to bring the average up from its current point around 60, but on this point I’m trying to set goals I’m sure I can reach.
Write “character histories” for at least three characters
Write a (brief) “biography” for at least one character
Write a “character logline” for at least one character
In the “detailed synopsis” of The Invasion (specified by “the snowflake method” step 9), write descriptions of at least 16 scenes.
Write and publish my annual liturgical-year-end blog-post roundup in the week before the First Sunday of Advent

God alone knows whether I’ll manage to meet those in the next few weeks, but they seem like a good

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