ROW 80 ~ Wednesday Update, 4/15
During my hiatus from writer discussions, I threw myself into book blogging. I do love reading and occasionally I like writing about reading. Hence, you know, the current blog title. One of my favorite book blogging activities is the readathon. They range in size from Dewey’s 24-hour Readathon (which is next Saturday!) to week long events like Bout of Books. Usually, readers set a goal, make a list of books they want to read, and go at it. A thing that I find perplexing about readathons is when readers start complain that they are “failing” the readathon just because they haven’t quite kept the pace they wanted. It’s supposed to be a fun event and, as long as you’re reading some pages, how is it failing? A few Bouts of Books ago, Amanda and Kelly came up with a warcry to counter this negativity: Flailing, not failing.
The only way I’m going to fail as a writer is by not writing. Sure, I want to have a good output, but not exactly hitting my goals all the time? That’s flailing, not failing. I flailed this past weekend. I played too much Minecraft. Eric and I (and our friend Chris) haven’t done anything fun together in a while. Monday was pretty meh as well. All together, I’ve written 2055 since last update.
I did, on Sunday, finish up my online Python course which I expected to last until the 28th. It’s nice to have one thing out of the way. I’m also going to cut back on blogging a little. My planned schedule is now Sun/Wed ROW 80 updates, review on Tuesday, Deal Me In on Saturday. Or something like that.
Goals
Writing
1000 words/day average on In Need of Luck in April or until done. ��� Averaging 871, not including what I’ve done today.
Daily free write. ��� Wrote Tuesday and this morning. Added it to my Todoist, because it isn’t habit yet.
For May/June ��� Scene rewrites for PHYSICa.
For May/June ��� Transcribe free write bits that might be useful to Abbott project.
Reading, related to writing
Finish reading River City Empire (related to next possible writing project) by the end of April. ��� No movement, because I went to the library. I’m flaky when it comes to books.
For May/June ��� The Call of Stories by Robert Coles
Publishing
New descriptions/categories/tags for Weordan books. (April 15th) ��� No movement. Eric and I need to pow-wow about this today.
Brainstorm alternate tags for books already published. ��� I’ve made a spreadsheet of current categories and tags.
List of reviewer contacts. ��� No movement.
ROW 80 is a blog hop!
Please, check out how other Round of Words participants are doing with their goals.
