Goals Call

We have a new member! Welcome aboard. Feel free to post your goals, either weekly or monthly or both. Everyone here has admin status, so we can go into each other's posts to comment in another color. Also updating your own progress seems to work in an alternate color. Some of us have reading lists, feel free to add to links, poke around, feel right at home. 'kay?

Dani

Hello from Elizabeth

As I wrote to Dani in an email, I've rather fallen off my writing horse in the past few months and I need a few good nags to spur me on and get me back in the saddle. Heh. All right, no more equine humor.

I am revising a historical mystery manuscript set in 16th century Ferrara and based on the Robert Browning poem "My Last Duchess." This morning I decided that because this is a Leap Month, I'd take the leap and commit to finish my beloved albatross by the end of February. I even have a day-by-day schedule. In brief, though, I want to have chapters 1-12 revised and polished by next Thursday night. That's a little more than a third of the book. Later chapters are going to need a lot more work.

Hello from Elizabeth on Saturday afternoon! So far I've worked through seven chapters and am beginning chapter eight. So I'm well ahead of schedule, and a good thing, too, since I have a lot of work to do on the latter part of the book. Thanks for nagging!

And hello again, at about five o'clock my time. Have finished chapters 1-11 and uploaded them to LN. Am now going to go out to dinner with my husband as a reward.


So nag away, and I'll do the same. Thanks for inviting me!

How to post goals

So what seems to work for me is to submit my goals every Sunday for the following week.

I put something like this in the subject line:
Dani's goals Feb. X - Feb. Z

Then I write a little blurb but it's also useful to break it down by days so you can plop in your actual results for your peeeeeeeeeers to peruuuuuuuuuuuuuse. And either cheer or snicker behind your back. Or to your face. No behind your back. ;)

Monday -
Tuesday -
Wednesday -
Thursday -
Friday -
Saturday -
Total -

Don't try to cut and paste - it won't work, I already tried.

Then day-by-day, I try to post results because it helps me see where I'm sliding. You can go into your prior posts by finding your dashboard, and then selecting edit on any given post. I also like to respond to other people within their posts in a different color, rather than use the comment selection. If you scroll down, you can see how Ann and I have done that.

At the end of each month, the bestest wins! And should get treats. I thought we could set it up that the treat giver volunteers, and then is absolved from future giving until everyone has participated. Will that work? Think little special things, like chocolate. Or a special pen. Just because it's nice to be loved when we do good things.

What else? Oh, we have reading lists that I think you all can add to. Go into "template" and click on your edit button. Also, you can add to the blog roll. If you have problems just let me know.
My email is quoe2@earthlink.net .

Okay, write away! Feel free to post your goals for this week if you haven't already!

Accountability!

Okay, Ann. Starting July 1st, we start posting our goals and results. Does that sound like a plan? And how often? And we can invite other writers, right? BIC HOK TAM!