ROW80: The first November check-in

Writing Stuff
My goals:

Finish the hockey romance rewrite.
Write To Score His Heart, hockey romance #2.
Edit and publish the Christmas novella by late October. (Done!!)
Write zero draft of the untitled fantasy science fiction bounty hunter story.
Plan writing/publishing schedule for the Spring/Summer 2013 season. (Done… ish.)

Current progress:

The Christmas novella is published! Whee!
NaNo started on the 1st, so now I’m working on the bounty hunter story. It needs a title eventually.

I’m really enjoying this round. I feel like I’m getting things done and that makes me super happy. I spent most of this year flailing around not getting what i wanted done, so it’s nice to see the changes each week.

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:

Working on a cover for a client this week still. It’s going well. I’m super happy with how the mock ups are turning out. Can’t wait to send them out.
The two projects in the works will be coming up next after this one is done. I’m excited about these.

Personal
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 isn’t where I need it to be, but I’m happy with where it’s at right now. It’s doing what I need it to be doing, and that’s what’s important.
Got my first publishing check! Granted it was small, but still!
Got caught up on backed up bills. I’m almost to the point where everything is current. That’s a great feeling.

My weekly plan

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

Last 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.

This week’s plan:

Christmas novella is published, so now I’m on to the SFR bounty hunter story. Would like to be about 20k by next Sunday.
I passed my weigh in for the military. I’ve lost 9% body fat in a year. I think that’s awesome. i didn’t think I’d lost that much fat.I think I’d like to just continue my current trend of eating better.
Critiquing will take priority after drill weekend. I’m going to be late on it. October was a much crazier time than I expected. But I’ll get it done.

That’s it for me. I’m all goaled out. Good progress this week. I’m probably going to do some separate NaNo updates to keep myself accountable. Haven’t decided how I’m going to do them yet. Hope everyone else’s November is doing well!