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Goal Planning of the embarrassing kind

I usually don't post my work progress, but I'm in the midst of planning out the rest of 2014 and 2015. Part of this process included taking a look at what's hanging out in my ToBeWritten a/k/a PutOffTillLater folder that I still like too much to toss out.

Who knows, maybe having the reminder will keep me moving forward. The trick is remembering to update these cool little tracker thingies. :)


2014

Stormy Weather Rewrite - Contemporary Romance


3rd Time Rewrite - Contemporary Romance


Brick and Stone - Contemporary Romance


The Long Way Home - Contemporary Romance


2015

5 Novella Series - Contemporary Romance

Book 1 - A R F U


Book 2 - C


Book 3 - F


Book 4 - x


Book 5 - Mort


The Johannes Tapes - YA SciFi



Miscellaneous to be completed (all titles and lengths subject to change)

Hunter's Moon - Contemporary Romance


Winter's Gift - Historical Romance


Even Soccer Moms Get the Blues - Contemporary Romance


Roommate - Contemporary Romance


B - Contemporary Romance


Misc Xmas Story - Contemporary Romance


CC - Contemporary Romance


Is that a hooker in the employee bathroom? - Contemporary Romance


Serial Author - Thriller

Dreamspinner Press is now on Instagram, and hey - there's picture of me!

Kinda.

Chrissy Munder shared Dreamspinner Press's status.4 minutes agoWho wants to win? Check out the July 20th #PicoftheDay for a glimpse of my writing space and the ultimate cat critic.  http://bit.ly/1riMBkyTo celebrate our Instagram launch, all our July Instagram followers will be entered to win a $10 gift certificate to the DsP store. Winner notified August 1 on Instagram. Will it be you?

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Productivity. Wherefore art thou, Productivity?

I have goals, dammit. And I'm determined to reach them. Playing around with the free time-tracking software Toggl as well as a timer and so far it's going well. If nothing else, I'm realizing when I'm sucked into something other than what I planned soon rather than later. I'll revist this in a week and see how it's gone. Do you have a favorite way to keep yourself on task?


photo courtesy of cellar_door_films, via the Wana Commons Flkr Community

Writer's Reward

Out of the 4 WIP's I have slated to complete this year I closed out the first run of edits on #1 yesterday. Yay!! I've set it aside to perk for bit and will edit through #2 before I go back for another run. I did go ahead and reward myself for my effort though. How do you like my fresh coat of paint?

Love this!

What I THINK I look like while I'm writing versus what I REALLY look like while I'm writing. LOL! #AmWriting Batcave pic.twitter.com/BTtfuJHOO2

— Paula Yoo (@PaulaYoo) July 1, 2014

What the *bleeb* am I thinking???

I'm in the last chapter of edits of WIP#1. I have three more WIP in various stages I plan on finishing this year. Really. So, why? WHY? Did I just find myself outlining a five book series? Not just vague ideas, no. Full -fledged Three Act, character names, conflict, foreshadowing, backstory, and how each story ties into the other outline. *feels faint*

I guess I now know what I'm doing in 2015. 

One of those face palm kind of moments...

Ever have one of those moments where you all you can do is drop your face into your palms and mumble, "Oh dear,". Yeah. I'm having one of those today.  I opened up my email and for some reason looked at the top where it shows how many emails are unread throughout the folders and was surprised to see "2134". What? 2134 unread emails? Where?

And that's where the face palm comes into play. Back in October when I was prepping to be offline for 6 months post eye surgery, I set up a series of filters for my email. You know, the cool app where if email comes in from x, it gets forward to folder y until you get a chance to go through it? I played around with it, became disgruntled when it didn't seem to be working out, shrugged, and then went on to the rest of my preparations like setting up a vacation response that would last until March of this year.

Well, golly. Apparently the darn things *did* work.

Whoopsie!

This leads me to the next question of ... now what? Do I just delete it all sight unseen? If its been this long and I lived without it ...  Take a quick glance to see if anything or anyone important was shuffled off my accident? Ignore it all and see how many unread emails I can actually accumulate?

I'm leaning toward the first response. Like any kind of organizing perhaps it's best to move forward as I mean to go on rather than wading about in the past. 

Futzing about.

Trying out some different themes here for the blog. But dang it all. Why can't I find a color/design I like, that has a base font I like. So, more futzing will happen. I'm sure of it. :)

A busy day across the web. Some favorite links to share.

When I'm looking for neat and interesting stuff on the web I normally head over to Chris's blog - Stumbling Over Chaos and her amazing (should be patented) Linkity posts. But today is one of those amazing days where there is great stuff everywhere. I thought I'd share just a few:

For a refreshing look at parenthood (he compares it to herding cats, one of my favorite hobbies) there's this very moving post by Leo Babauta on The Essence of Fatherhood - http://zenhabits.net/fatherhood/

How about 3 Things You Need to Stop Doing to Get Started with What You Truly Want to Do courtesy of The Positivity Blog - http://www.positivityblog.com/index.php/2014/06/12/3-things-to-stop-doing-to-get-started/

Win a copy of Clare London's Freeman http://reviews-and-ramblings.dreamwidth.org/4355374.html over at Elisa's

Remember the joys of Word Perfect and your favorite Macro? I used to be the Macro Queen and had a slew of them at my fingertips. Not much compared to the bliss of hitting a few keys and having the computer prepare an entire form letter for you. Thems were the days. :) Well, here's a free 600 page guide containing 400 Macros you can use in Word. Download your free copy of Macros for Writers and Editors by Paul Beverley: http://www.archivepub.co.uk/book.html

And then, to better understand how to use them, C.K. Macleod gives us a whole slew of helpful blog posts: http://www.techtoolsforwriters.com/category/microsoft-word/

See what I mean?

What's your favorite web find today?

The old joke - What's Michigan's state bird?

Last night's gardening adventure: Mosquitos so HUGE & BLOODTHIRSTY I thought I was in a @SyfyTV movie of the week. #thehorror

— Chrissy Munder (@ChrissyMunder) June 3, 2014