{"id":6608,"date":"2017-01-20T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-09-12T15:52:19","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T19:52:19","slug":"beautiful-people-2017-writing-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/beautiful-people-2017-writing-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful Books: 2017 Writing Goals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"background-color: white; clear: both; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px; text-align: center;\">\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/bb-redone.png?resize=400%2C400\" style=\"border: none; position: relative;\" width=\"400\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px; text-align: center;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 18.2px; text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">It&#8217;s the first post of 2017! I&#8217;m back, guys! I hoped to do this post in December, but since the link-up didn&#8217;t happen I&#8217;m doing it now. XD You can check out&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/2016\/10\/beautiful-books-2016-introduce-your.html\" style=\"color: #0b5394; text-decoration: none;\">Beautiful Books #1<\/a>&nbsp;and <a href=\"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/2016\/11\/beautiful-books-2016-novel-update.html\">Book Beautiful Books #2<\/a> and this post will have way more context.&nbsp;If you&#8217;d like to participate hop on over to&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/paperfury.com\/beautiful-books-2017-writing-goals\/\" style=\"color: #0b5394; text-decoration: none;\">Paper Fury<\/a>&nbsp;and Further Up and Further In!&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<p>\n<!-- more --><\/p>\n<p>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><b>What were your writing achievements last year?&nbsp;<\/b><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">Let&#8217;s see. Concerning novels, I wrote 127,963 words last year for the <i>Silver Hood<\/i> first draft,<i> Starbloods<\/i> first draft, and <i>Red Hood<\/i> extended scenes. I edited those 20K words of the extended scenes and 90K of <i>Subsapien: Biomech<\/i>.&nbsp;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">Concerning articles, I became a staff writer at Geekdom House and I&#8217;ve written over a dozen articles for them, two published in their print magazine, one making the front cover. I also was published in Splickety: Havok for a flash fiction.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2016-12-282B14.56.01-1.jpg?resize=300%2C400\" width=\"300\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><b>What\u2019s on your writerly \u201cto-do list\u201d for 2017?<\/b><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">I actually wrote all of this out a week or so ago. This is the unabridged version:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">January:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">Edit Red Hood for Language<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">Read over Starbloods<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">February:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">Edit Red Hood for Language<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">Read over Starbloods<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">March:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">Start Starbloods Rewrite<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">April:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">Rewrite Starbloods<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">May:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">Read Over Silver Hood<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">June:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">Edit Starbloods<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">July:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">Edit Starbloods<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">August:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">Edit Starbloods<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">September:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">Edit Starbloods<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">Plan for NaNo<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">October:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">Plan for NaNo<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">November:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">NaNo<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">December:<br \/>Finish up NaNo<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><b>Tell us about your top-priority writing projects for this year!<\/b><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">Top priority are <i>Red Hood<\/i> and <i>Starbloods<\/i>. <i>Starbloods<\/i> I&#8217;m working on getting read for Realm Makers in July and <i>Red Hood<\/i> was requested by a publisher. It just needs to be revised. <i>Red Hood<\/i> is about a female werewolf huntress who has to work with a werewolf to deliver secret documents that could change her country. <i>Starbloods<\/i> is about three chosen ones, two must embrace their destinies to save the world and the last one must fight it. I&#8217;m still working on the elevator pitch for the last one. XD<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"395\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/RouynShoulderUpColored.png?resize=400%2C395\" width=\"400\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Rouyn from Starbloods<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><b>How do you hope to improve as a writer? Where do you see yourself at the end of 2017?<\/b><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">I&#8217;d like to get better at the legal aspects of writing. I feel like I know a lot about craft and the industry, but I&#8217;m not very good with rights and contracts yet. I&#8217;m also hoping to improve in marketing as well. I don&#8217;t know where I want to see myself at the end of 2017. There&#8217;s a lot of things I want (like having a novel published or at least accepted for publication), but they&#8217;re not in my control.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><b>Describe your general editing process.<\/b><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">I read over my first draft and take notes of big things I need to fix such as research areas or scenes I want to expand. Then I totally rewrite my first draft. After that I let it rest then I microedit and focus on the minute things. Then I send it off to beta readers then go over their feedback and edit again.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><b>On a scale of 1-10, how do you think this draft turned out?<\/b><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">Eh. Like a six or seven? It a lot shorter than I want it to be and I know there are a lot of rough spots, but I like the general idea.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"323\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ElasaShoulderUpColored.png?resize=400%2C323\" width=\"400\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Elasa from Starbloods<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><b>What aspect of your draft needs the most work?<\/b><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">Pfft. A lot. I need to research a lot of things and it needs a crap ton more description. I omit a lot of description in first drafts. I also discovered some things I want to tweak so the novel makes more logical sense.&nbsp;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><b>What do you like the most about your draft?<\/b><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">The characters and worldbuilding definitely. The point of views are the three chosen ones and I love their dynamics. The worldbuilding is so fun in this setting. Lots of&nbsp;bioluminescence!<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><b>What are your plans for this novel once you finish editing? More edits? Finding beta readers? Querying? Self-publishing? Hiding it in a dark hole forever?<\/b><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">Finding betas which I&#8217;ll probably put a call for in April or May then I&#8217;m hoping to get it published.&nbsp;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><b>What\u2019s your top piece of advice for those just finished writing a first draft?<\/b><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">Don&#8217;t immediately jump into editing. Give yourself six weeks of distance before getting to it. It helps you get perspective.&nbsp;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/HarloweShoulderUpCreepyFinal.png?resize=351%2C400\" width=\"351\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Harlowe from Starbloods<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">And that&#8217;s the first post for 2017! Come back tomorrow for&nbsp;Writing Lessons from Video Games: Skyrim on World Building! It&#8217;s going to be a fun post. ^ ^<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 20.79px; text-align: center;\">\n<b><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">What are some of your goals for 2017? Are you writing a novel? Are you participating in this link-up? Post your link in the comments so I can see!<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"background-color: white; clear: both; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\"><br style=\"line-height: 20.79px;\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; line-height: 20px;\">\n<b><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">You may also like:<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; line-height: 18.2px; text-align: center;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/2016\/08\/beautiful-people-appearance-edition.html\" style=\"color: #0b5394; text-decoration: none;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">Beautiful People &#8211; Appearance Edition: Rouyn (Starbloods)<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/2016\/07\/beautiful-people-19-elasa.html\" style=\"color: #0b5394; text-decoration: none;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">Beautiful People #19: Elasa<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/2016\/06\/beautiful-people-childhood-edition.html\" style=\"color: #0b5394; text-decoration: none;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">Beautiful People Childhood Edition: Harlowe (Starbloods)<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<span style=\"color: #0b5394; font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif; text-decoration: none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/Beautiful%20People%20#21: Silanoc\" style=\"color: #0b5394; text-decoration: none;\">Beautiful People #21: Silanoc<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/2014\/09\/beautiful-people-4-mordraug.html\" style=\"color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; line-height: 18.2px; text-decoration: none;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;georgia&quot; , &quot;times new roman&quot; , serif;\">Beautiful People 4: Mordraug<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the first post of 2017! I&#8217;m back, guys! I hoped to do this post in December, but since the link-up didn&#8217;t happen I&#8217;m doing it now. 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