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Post by elizabethtwist on Jan 1, 2019 12:54:59 GMT -5
YO WRITERS
I'm not big on New Year's resolutions but I ***love*** the smell and feel of a fresh new year for writing goal planning / taking stock of what went wrong and what went right in the year that passed, and course correcting if necessary.
What did you accomplish in 2018? What are you looking to do in 2019 with your writing?
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ceruleanblue
Isaac Asimov
Nothing that happens to a writer--however happy, however tragic--is ever wasted. (PD James)
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Post by ceruleanblue on Feb 8, 2019 17:55:04 GMT -5
One thing I particularly look forward to, this year, is a bit of worldbuilding I just had the idea for in January, meant to help develop a bigger, ongoing writing project still started with Chris. The idea is to create a regional Northville Almanac, featuring a new (or old) significant object, building, plant, animal species, historical event, sky phenomenon, mechanical device invented by Cassidy Brown, escaped robot, or whatever else unique element in a painting plus a short explanatory text for each week of the year, filling one calendar page each. The text part could be a legend, a poem, a fairy tale, seasonal agricultural instructions, or sight-seeing info for tourists; the pictures will probably explore different media because they are contributed by various local artists, of course. (; A year has 48 weeks in that world and the almanac belongs to an elderly woman, who works on restauring the former botanical garden and grows food she sells to the small shop in the former train station...
I have this book which encourages you to try various new multi-media projects over the course of 1 year, meaning, you get 52 playful exercises for materials and methods you probably didn't ever use yet. This year, I finally remembered to actually begin this, when the new year started, but first since I had the idea for the almanac, which will serve as a little encyclopedia of this particular story world at the same time, I'm really happy about it. Also awesome: the sketchbook I have been given by one of you last September happens to contain exactly 48 pages. So the Northville Almanac will become a physical reality. (:
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