Not much to brag about // ROW80 Week I wrap-up

For those of you who like to like to look in on what I do from day to day, these Row80 posts will be perfect, for the rest (and I assume majority), feel free to ignore them. They are mostly for me and other participants to stay on track and hold ourselves accountable and productive in our efforts.

~ ROW80 – Round 1 – Sunday Check-In Week 1 ~

Goal #1: Complete Trading Tides (Driftwood Deeds sequel, ~30k). ♥ On track.

This is the goal I worked on most this week. I created a semi-detailed outline, wrote a little over a thousand words every day, and reached 10k this morning. I would like to do the same again next week, so that I’m well-set to finish the first draft within the month.

I also made a Pinterest inspiration board and a playlist – but that probably counts under procrastination rather than work.

Goal #2: Complete After Life Lessons Edits + get it ready for publication. ♥ On track.

I also spent quite some time on this goal. L.C. Spoering and I completed about 8k worth of rewrites after deciding to condense the first quarter of the novel from six chapters into three.

We also decided on a release date (April 8th 2014), wrote a blurb, and bought a picture for the cover art.

In the next week, I want to continue this round of edits, necessitated by the changes wrought in the beginning and start contacting blogs for cover reveal promotion and early review sign-ups.

Goal #3: Complete By The Light Of The Moon Edits + get ready for publication. ♥ On track.

As the order of the goals, suggests, this is currently not my highest priority. This week, I didn’t do any actual writing, but worked on behind the scenes admin, facilitating the reversal of my rights. So far this has gone remarkably smoothly and may happen much faster than I thought it would. With any luck, I’ll have it officially in writing by next week and online retailers will take By the Light of the Moon off their virtual shelves.

I’ve also been working on the cover again, and feel like after a few rough starts of using the artwork I commissioned, I’m finally headed in a good direction.

Goal #4: Complete Forest Fires edits + start shopping it around. 

Unless stray thoughts and notes about the future of this series count (and they don’t), I haven’t done a single thing here, this week. It probably won’t be a priority next week, either.

Goal #5: Write a total of 80k (on my own) in that time. ♥ On track.

Counting Monday through Sunday, this week, and only my own projects (i.e. currently just Trading Tides), I wrote 8700 words. It’s really not anything to brag about, but it puts me pretty smoothly on track to finish this goal.

Goal #6: Start a new project with L.C. Spoering, as well as one of my own.

Obviously, this (very, very vague) goal has lowest priority and I don’t know which series we’re going to work on. There was some thought of a small zombie apocalypse anthology to give away as a freebie, but we also can’t seem to tear our butts away from the Mona Ceol series. However, I don’t plan on working on this goal until February.

For my own project, I will most likely power through the Driftwood Deeds series. I’m planning on writing the third novella (titled: Saltwater Skin) in February/March as well.

Miscellanea.

- Worked out terms for the release of Tethered Down with my lovely publisher Harper Bliss. The 6k erotic shortstory will come out as a freebie in the next few weeks. We also started work on a hot little cover for it and I wrote a blurb.

- Completed quite a few homepage updates, time-swallowers like that.

- Finished reading my first two books this year, also setting me on track to read the 50 I challenged myself to finish.

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