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This year's Loose Ends marathon runs from Tuesday 6 December 2011 to Tuesday 3 January 2012.

Clear out your to-do list, wrap up those yearly goals, make plans and resolutions -- whatever you need to do to make this year a success and/or get next year off to a flying start! Post your list here and let us know as you cross things off!

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Questions? Problems? Issues? Something I forgot? Here's the place to ask.

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In addition to continuing to write:

Get Overamped out the door:
*synopsis
*query
*list of agents to send to
*send out

Fixes to "The Captain's Daughter" and submit

Submit "Graveyard Shift" and/or other short stories. I know I have several...

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* 1 short story to revise and submit for the 12/31 WOTF deadline
* novel to complete (or push as far as i can)

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Finish Daniel & get him up for sale.

Outline the next couple books in the MG series.

Edit & submit 3 short stories currently in holding pattern (Free of Fire, Lost Flair, and Ashes of Evil).

Finish either Mandy (cozy mystery) or Pepper (urban fantasy); both need about 30k.

Write a novella.

Anything that doesn't get finished this month carries over into January, but this is pretty much the current to-do list.

-- Erin

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To finish this year no matter what:

1. My current novel, Check Mate, with under 10K left to go.

2. Applications to teach workshops at the ACFW conference are due by December 31. I've got prelim work done on five apps, but need to finalize them and send them in.

3. Three entries to judge for the Phoenix Rattler writing contest, also by the end of the year.

4. Pick one of my prepped novel ideas and develop it further to start writing in January.

Valerie

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My loose ends:

1. Write Black Wednesday for MGR Tour, edit, create cover art, and publish to Smashwords (or have prepared to pub soon).

2. Edit Bedtime Story, create cover art, and publish to Smashwords (or have prepared to pub soon).

3. Write ten stories for Thousand-One Devil collection.

4. Work on a few scenes for Forgotten Kiss, email co-author what I've done, and motivate her to send me what she's written/edited.

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I have one goal:

Write as much as possible on Fey Touched. It's currently at 35k. Would love to have 60k-70k by the end of the year.


CA

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I'm gone more than I'm here, and I HAVE to get some programming done, but I'd like to accomplish at least one of these, in order of preference.

1) Edit something for WotF
2) Finish the Signs and Portents edit
3) Get more stories circulation (on top of the WotF one)
4) Clean out my inbox!!!!

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>To finish this year no matter what:
>
>1. My current novel, Check Mate,
>with under 10K left to go.
>
>2. Applications to teach workshops at the
>ACFW conference are due by December 31.
>I've got prelim work done on five apps,
>but need to finalize them and send them
>in.
>
>3. Three entries to judge for the Phoenix
>Rattler writing contest, also by the end
>of the year.

Got these sent in!

>4. Pick one of my prepped novel ideas and
>develop it further to start writing in
>January.

Valerie

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Yay! Progress!

-- Erin

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>To finish this year no matter what:
>
>1. My current novel, Check Mate,
>with under 10K left to go.

This is a COMPLETE first draft at just over 78K!

Valerie

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Yay yay yay yay yay!

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I have a lot of loose ends, but when it comes to writing, there's only one. Resume work on Polar Bear on the Loose.

Here are my "next actions" to accomplish that:

- Review the material
- Figure out where I am in the process on Lesson 13 of How To Revise Your Novel
- Resume work
- Keep working

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Congrats!


CA

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Nice work, Val .

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Look at you go!

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Two-three pages of synopsis written (this is for the long version.)

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Wooohoooo!

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Hooray for progress!

-- Erin

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Wow! Great progress!



CA

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