Coeur's Year Plan

Here's the plan...

Beginning on Monday's we start 'checking in'...

The first challenge is to decide what book you are going to write or finish this year. You have a week to make a decision. Be ready next Monday, the 12th to have a manuscript in mind.

The second challenge is to figure out the market for said book. Who's purchasing that type of book, what is the necessary length, do you need an agent? Etc., Be ready the following Monday, the 19th to disclose your target markets.

The third challenge for January is Book in a Week. Yes you heard me. Start writing that book as fast as you can for one week. We start on January 26th - February 1st and report in on the 2nd as to how we did.

We also plan to have three speakers this year.

In between speakers we will be following the below schedule...

Finish the Book in a Week
Edit the Book in a Week
Critique the Book in a Week
Rewrite from the critiques of our Book in a Week
Writing the synopsis for our Book in a Week
Writing the query letter for our Book in a Week

The only two months that are set in stone are:
November - NaNoWriMo - National Novel Writing Month
December - Our Christmas Party

Quite an ambitious setting. But at the end of this year, you should have a completed manuscript, ready to go out the door, or ready for the Golden Heart. And the beginning of a new manuscript.

Donna Caubarreaux
President