Okay, here it is! It's shorter then before, as I took off the stuff that only applied if I was starting it as a stand-alone, so this is for book 1. The line indicates the things above it need to be done before starting, and the things below it can be done a bit later. Bolded items have already been done.

Snowflake Novel
Write Current History
Fractal Azlyn [I have a character named that]
Azlyn's Questionnaire
Fractal Elias
Elias' Questionnaire
Velite Culture
Azeoran Culture
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Kiamir Culture
Fractal Syargen
Fractal Tavion
Tavion's Questionnaire
Arien Culture
Fractal Jenimi
Jen's Questionnaire

I'm making good progress on the snowflaking, and started Azeoran culture today. Hopefully soon I can start the history!

*prints out Azlyn's list on nice paper, decorates it with sparkly stickers, and sticks it to her (Azlyn's) desk with a nice cupcake magnet* That is a fine list, my dear. Keep working!

*Grins*

Last night I finished step five of snowflaking, and I can skip step seven because I am doing fractals.

I got a start on the scene spreadsheet today! It's slow going, though, but working. I mainly need to stop worrying about if it'll be moving too fast and things. I got part 1 of current history done, and will do more tomorrow. Azeoran culture... Slightly bleh, but it's working.

I usually write a scene/beat spreadsheet also, and I've found that it seems to take longer than you think it will. It's harder than it looks. You have to think through the entire scene in your mind, deciding where it starts and ends, what the content/point is, contemplate whether or not you'll need an additional scene from another character's POV to make it work... etc. It involves a lot of thinking and copying & pasting scenes in new orders. But I've found it's worth the effort because I already have at least a basic idea of the plot of each scene. This especially helps me since I write out of order.

Yeah, spreadsheets are hard!

For that reason... I don't think I'm going to make it. Not all the way. But I will reward myself with writing the prologue on my birthday.

Well, I think I'm getting close to having the worldbuilding I need. I have approximately four things left to hash out. But I'll probably manage to think of things that might be useful all the way up to the start date.

Other than that, I have a little bit of pre-writing character development to do, as well as finishing outlining. I plunked what I have into a blank outline today to find that I have exactly half the plot already, including the beginning, climax, and most of the end.

However, thinking about titles and such has made me realize that I need to figure out more about the other two books in the trilogy so that they can mesh nicely. The second one is quite detailed in my head already, but the third is only the beginning of an idea, and I need to figure it out further before I can begin writing the first book.

*is so happy with Zoe's success*

Wait... it's a trilogy?

*grins*

It is!

I must hear about this in chat sometime.

Well, I have a title for the project previously known as the Secret Project. It's called Dream of a Shrouded Quest, and I have a paragraph of dialogue written, and pages and pages of pre-story development.

Well, I am back, and ready to make goals again. Please oh please, Lord, let me not have my world crumble around me and keep me from writing. I hate that.

Anyways. Since June is almost over, I am setting July aside to finish my illustration mock ups and submit my children's book to agents, marketing myself as both illustrator, and author.

Then August will be me charging head on back into the last book of my trilogy.

Epic goals. I hope you can achieve them.

*gets excited at the thought of a new Varon book*

Wow. Those are wonderful, challenging, and exciting goals, Airianna. I shall be eagerly waiting close at hand for future updates. And... I really, really understand what you mean by the first paragraph. If you have time to read it, this might encourage you at least a teeny bit: http://www.aubreyhansen.com/2012/06/tea ... o-fly.html

*nods * Thanks, Aubrey. I read it just now and I know where you are coming from. There is a reason why I am not a deadline crazy person. Once upon a time I focused too much on deadlines and schedules. And not just with writing, but with my life. I learned A Lot through many different situations, and I feel so much happier as a person, and as a writer, with a focus more on my story, and the people around me, than the schedules and deadlines.

It's a hard lesson, though....

Amen. I was hoping you would enjoy it, since we've had similar struggles with God saying "Look, I need you to do something else than write right now."

Awesome goals, Raven, Airianna, and Varon.

I have finally compiled my Agent list. I've been doing it for a while, but I finished up after a few hours of work and research last night. I have come up with 26 agents to query, 16 of whom I am most excited about. So I feel off to a good start, and will hopefully send our queries and mock ups before too long.

Sounds good, Airianna.

*rubs hands eagerly* I'm so excited to see where this goes, Airianna. These are agents for your Diegose trilogy, right?

*Does a happy dance for Airi*

No, I already did research for those a few months ago. These agents are for my childrens book which I am getting read to send out before going back to my trilogy.

Either way, it's good.

I agree.

Mwah ha! I am ahead of schedule. My query letter is almost complete. Once it is done, I hope to query all my agents (tonight?).

Wish me God speed!

Great.

Yep yep!

I do!

*is very tired now *

Well, my queries are off to 13 different agents. So, now I wait for the next 6 weeks.

Novel Goal for July met! Now onto August's goal.

Excellent work.

*is so excited that Airianna is at this stage* Keep us updated!

I shall.

Woohoo! I'm so happy you got those queries done!

As for my novel goals... It's kind of on hold until I get home. Once I return, I will Finish my planning, and then go hard on it. At the moment, I've written the prologue and part of the first scene.

Well done, Airi! So exciting!

So, since I finished my last goal early, and have begun work on my trilogy again, I feel I need to set a new goal.

So, I plan on finishing chapter three and writing all of chapter 4 (which will equate out to about 14,000 words written, if I combine the two chaptersl) by the end of August, which will put me at 1/5th of the way through my book!

*Gets excited about Airi's novel goal*

My novel goal is write Chapter One of my book this week (I started today). Not a big goal, but don't want to set things too high in case I fail dismally.

Not setting your goals too high is an important skill, one some of us don't have. Ahem.

I'm so glad both of you are working on your books again!

Excellent goals, you two.

Hey everyone! I know I haven't been around much lately, but I've finally set a new novel goal, so I thought I'd pop in. My new goal is to finish the revision of my next novel Never by August fifteenth.

Never! Never Never Never Never NEW GRACIE BOOK!

Yup. Really.

I might have a new book from both of you on my shelf soon.

I want to finish the first chapter of a novella I'm co-writing this summer by tomorrow.

Cool, Varon-writing! Come back and tell us if you finish it!

*grins at Leah and Jonathan*

Go Varon! Let us know if you finish it!

Working on Never officially today!

NEVER! *cheers*

I'll let you know, definitely.

*grins at Marketh*

Today I wrote for nearly seven hours straight, and finished making notes on the Never revisions. Tomorrow I'll start rewriting it. Don't know if I can do it by the deadline, but I'm sure going to try!

Wow. If you keep going like that, you'll easily finish it on time.