ROW80 ~ The First Week
Now I intentionally did not post a check in for ROW80 on Wednesday because we started Monday. And because I wanted to feel more accomplished today when I revisited my goals. Not that I’m doing bad. I’m actually feeling pretty good with how I’m doing right now.
Anyways, on to the goals!
Writing
I’ve been super hard at work for writing this week. Doing a LOT of editing to get two books out the door and ready to publish.
I submitted a short story this week. I had a good time with this story. I feel like (because of Team Awesome’s awesomeness) it’s really one of my better works now. I hope it works out and I get into the anthology to which I’ve submitted it.
The Christmas novella is almost done. I have twenty pages left in this major pass and then it’s a lot of cleaning up places, and tightening the language. Next week starts my polish and shine passes for this one. I created web pages for it, but it’s not up yet.
The first in my upcoming hockey romance series, Off Her Game has about 15k left to go. I’m not sure that I’ll hit the 60k mark I wanted to. But I got quite a bit done. I’m very excited with how well this story is turning out.
Those two were my focus this week. As soon as they are finished, I can start zero drafting To Score His Heart and my untitled fantasy romance.
In writing-related news, I scheduled my first newsletter to go out on Monday. It’s basically an intro letter, because I’ve been collecting email addresses for a while. I’m sure some people have probably forgotten that they signed up and I don’t want them to think that I’m spamming them. But if you’re interested in hearing stuff from me, please feel free to sign up for the list. I have some more news coming up in a couple weeks, which is why I’m sending the intro email.
Design
I have some assignments coming up this week for school. So a lot of the design work I do will be for classes and such for a while. This week, my biggest project is the tattoo design. Of course this means I went to the library and checked out a tattoo book to mine for ideas.
I also bought sketch books, since three of my classes require keeping one. I need a bigger purse so I can carry them around…
I’m really interested in doing some work I don’t have up on my website yet, which is hard because people generally won’t hire for what they can’t see on the website. So I’m going to work on that kind of stuff in my classes as projects to get samples up.
Personal
Blogging has slowed a little. I’m finding it difficult to be all deep thoughty every day. I’m still doing the 365 Days to Life series. I’ve gotten a lot of positivity out of it. I’m enjoying it.
The other two goals I had, I’m having some difficulty with but I’ll get them in line too. They’re hard, so it’ll take time.
I think that’s it from me today. How’re your goals coming?
