Weekly Goals

1. Read T. Kingfisher, Corazon de Acero, and re-read Rosa Ribas Lejos while still reading Dracula.

2. Handle scenes like Rosa Ribas does in Lejos. Try and write 5 scenes managing narrative voice, dialogue, action and setting. Ask myself: what is the most important aspect of my setting and how might it affect the characters or communicate some aspect of their lives? --- I need to rethink this. It was okay, but not that productive. I don't want to mindlessly bash out words, but I do want to get words on the page and this effort to write scenes didn't work for me as I dried up pretty quickly. I might try Le Guinn writing exercises from Steering the Craft next week to do both. I want to see the problem and to solve it. I enjoy that element of writing. Still, it feels like two steps forward and three steps back.

3. Evolve Eevee into Espeon.

4. Look at the world with kind eyes as much as humanly possible. It's a difficult world.

5. Savour my morning coffee. Always a winner.

6. Write sentences using new verbs in Spanish every day. Bueno, bueno, bueno! Madre mia! Que bueno!