First-Trimester 2018 Shine Cycle Goals Check

On Saturday, I checked up on my progress so far on “miscellaneous” goals for the year. Today, a look at how I’m doing on my goals relating to the Shine Cycle, my fantasy series-in-preparation.

Outlining and Plotting

Objective: Have one complete and detailed outline of The Invasion.

Goal: Finish the “detailed synopsis” that is Step 9 of the “snowflake method”

I’ve made significant progress on this, if not as much as I’d hoped, and am within striking distance—it should only take a few more weeks in which I actually work on it.

I’m not even going to list my remaining “outlining and plotting” goals here, since they all have to come after I finish this one.

Character Development

Objective: Have a biography, history, description, and “character logline” or “motivation summary” for every named character.

Goal: Write at least ten character biographies or histories

I’ve written three so far.

Goal: Create “character loglines” or “motivation summaries” for at least fifteen characters.

I’ve created nine so far.

Worldbuilding

Objective: Develop each race and culture that the Shine Cycle is concerned with sufficiently to portray it distinctly and excite potential readers’ interest.

Goal: Complete the “race fractalling system” for elves.
Goal: Complete the “race fractalling system” for dwarves

I haven’t gotten to either of these yet. But soon, I think.

Blogging

Objective: Regularly post substantive Shine Cycle-related content here, as an incentive to continued progress and to attract interested future readers.

Goal: Post at least twelve Shine Cycle-related posts (not including writing status updates, year-end retrospectives, and the like; including posts already scheduled, but not including new posts scheduled for 2019) to this blog.
Goal: Post at least one Shine Cycle-related post (with the same restrictions) to this blog every month.
Stretch Goal: Post at least eighteen Shine Cycle-related posts (with the same restrictions) to this blog.

I think I’ve written four so far, and scheduled them monthly. But I’m not quite sure.

All in all, I’m well behind where I had hoped to be by this point, but most of my goals still look possible. I should definitely finish my preparatory “prewriting” work on The Invasion long before year’s end; that what happens after that will be up in the air was obvious back when I was first trying to plan the year out.

I’ll round up my post-trimester goal-checking with a look at my Strategic Primer goals on Wednesday.