ROW80: Where did my week go?

Is it Sunday already? Doesn’t feel like it should be. Where did my week go?

 

Writing Stuff
My goals:

Finish the hockey romance, Off Her Game, and submit that to the requested places. (OHG is now a self-pub project)
Write To Score His Heart, hockey romance #2.
Edit and publish the Christmas novella by late October.
Write zero draft of the untitled fantasy bounty hunter story.
Plan writing/publishing schedule for the Spring/Summer 2013 season. (Done… ish.)

Current Progress:

Started edits on Christmas novella. About halfway through now. It’s looking like I probably won’t get it done until tomorrow. Want to get as much as possible done today though.
Booked a blog tour in December for OCT. Kind of excited. The book releases next week. (OMG!!)
Pretty much have gotten nothing else accomplished. I’m realizing that while I’m super fast at drafting, I really am super slow at editing.

Design Stuff
My goals:

Continue to work on school design projects. I’m in the home stretch. I have three quarters left.
Line up projects for 2013. (So, like, if you need some graphic work done… I have some openings…)
I really want to stretch my knowledge and improve my skills so I’ve bought some digital art and Photoshop books. My plan is to read one book or work from one book every two months.
Create a stockpile of pre-made covers to offer on the website in the future. I actually have about 20 right now, but I’m really looking to expand that to 80 before offering them for sale on the website. I like having buffers.

Current Progress:

Loving my classes, but man, they take a lot of work.
I’m doing a client’s cover this next week. As soon as OCT is uploaded and published, I’m going to concentrate on that cover, since it’s overdue, and though I’ve communicated with the client, I still feel horrible that it’s taken this long.
I’ve got two more projects for 2013. It’s to the point where I need to figure out how many a month I can logically get done and not have my writing suffer.

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Personal Stuff
My goals

Continue to blog every day for the 365 Days to Life series, because that’s really fun and it’s doing what I’ve needed it to do.
Increase my income 15% to put me on the path to a new, better quality of life.
Stick to the Total Money Makeover plan and get an emergency fund set aside before the end of the year.
Stick to the actual WeightWatchers plan to lose 15 lbs.

Current progress:

Blogging is better this week. Just need to stick to it more.
Weight has stalled again. Looking into workout options.
Looked into a Zumba place and a kickboxing place. I’m thinking maybe December of starting those, but I need to see what my money situation will be since that’ll be a combined $200 extra a month. Also? I’ll need to go shopping for workout clothes.

My weekly plan

So we went over the overall goals. Here’s my weekly lists.

Last week’s plan:

Got the Christmas novella done, sent to CPs. Due back at the end of this week, so final edits will be next week.
Blogging sort of fell off this week. I’ll be back at it this week though. Want to post at least 4 times.
Also scheduling guest blogs for November this week.
Diet is going well. Sticking with that. Want to drop another 2 lbs.
I love my CPs. Want to get through five chapters this week on one of the manuscripts.
Get out of the house at least one day.
Exercise 3 times this week.

This week’s plan:

Almost done with final edits. Next week by this time, it should be published. (OMG!)
Blogging was better. I blogged three times, so not quite the four I wanted. I’ll do better this week. Scheduled first week of November on the blog.
Did not lose weight this week. Pretty sure this is because I’m about to have a visit from that crazy bitch Aunt Flo.
After the novella is done, I’m going to take a few days break from writing, get design stuff out of the way, and critique some, too. I think it’s important to take breaks sometimes, even if you’re in a crunch.