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	<title>ieva melgalve &#187; 2010</title>
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		<title>New Year&#8217;s Plan</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 20:21:39 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Progress Reports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2010]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everybody must have some resolution, right? Well, mine isn&#8217;t really a resolution, it&#8217;s a not-too-ambitious plan of what I could accomplish without driving myself nuts (either with burn-out or lazy-crap-writer syndrome that kicks in whenever I don&#8217;t write much). 1. Edit Vega to the final, query-able version. (That&#8217;ll be the hardest, but I believe that [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Everybody must have some resolution, right? Well, mine isn&#8217;t really a resolution, it&#8217;s a not-too-ambitious plan of what I could accomplish without driving myself nuts (either with burn-out or lazy-crap-writer syndrome that kicks in whenever I don&#8217;t write much).</p>
<p>1. Edit Vega to the final, query-able version. (That&#8217;ll be the hardest, but I believe that with How To Revise Your Novel course I&#8217;ll be able to do that. And I&#8217;ll start working on that very soon, very likely tomorrow.)<br />
2. Edit at least 12 stories to the final, submittable versions. That&#8217;s roughly one story a month, and totally doable if I apply myself to that.<br />
3. Write a new novel (the one code-named Virgin perhaps?). I think I&#8217;ll start writing right now because basically, I don&#8217;t get the real &#8220;feel&#8221; or the scope of the novel yet. Sounds upside-down? Well, no. I reckon that the most painless and reliable way to get the &#8220;feel&#8221; of the novel is to write a chapter or two. That feel will determine whether it&#8217;s primarily an action-based stuff with weird magic or is it a psychological piece, or a cozy dealing-with-sexuality story, or a horror that would make me stay awake at nights. Or, if the first chapters feel wrong, well, then I&#8217;ll know it&#8217;s wrong and try the opposite approach. It&#8217;s not the scientific way but it&#8217;s a way to make sure I enjoy writing something I will very likely *not* enjoy writing.<br />
(By the way: why writing if I have so much to edit? I think it&#8217;s necessary for me to write. I re-started writing because I&#8217;m hooked on that; if my editing will mess with my writing, I&#8217;ll drop them both as I actually did two weeks ago. So I&#8217;ll do both, in a sorta accomplishment-reward vicious circle.)</p>
<p>What I believe I&#8217;ll also do: write a handful of new stories and, most likely, participate in NaNoWriMo again (with a subsequent burn-out in December again), but I&#8217;m not putting it in my plan because I don&#8217;t want to allow myself to fail at my first two resolutions and excuse it  with &#8220;oh, but I did the stories and the NaNo&#8221;.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s it. May you (whoever is reading this) have plans so cool that making them come true feels great and, well, not easy, but tremendously rewarding.<br />
All else is luck and gifts from above, and I believe that these things will come to you on their own accord and in their own time, when they&#8217;re most needed.</p>
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