Dani's Monthly Goals for July 2008

Starting with week one and Book in a Week:

• 30 pages of fiction 27 pages - I'll take it.
• Work on the Rural Newspapers Ever lens
• Slog through my endless writing for topics and articles to revise for the rural newspaper articles
• Pimp the Quickest Blog Book Tour Guide Ever Daily;) Twitter!
• Walk five miles per week minimum and try to beat Dana On it!
• Learn how to work Open Office
• Find three cozy mystery titles to review - 2 eBooks

Rest of the month, really work on learning graphics stuff in OO so I can think about the You Can Quote Me CafePress shop. Signed up for shop. It's a start. Right now, I'm just too stupid to do it. Also, get my photo albums organized in Vista. I don't even understand it enough to pretend. Also have to input hubbo's writing for the church window repair book as he's too slow and hogs the computer for too long trying to do it himself. Wish he had a secretary. :) Also must start thinking about Eric Maisel's Creativity Central blog posts as that will surely be happening soon. No sooner out of my mouth and it happened... some good posts showing up over there. Go see. The hold-up there has been a reprieve, but it won't last much longer. In fact, his website design is taking so long, I'm getting a little intimidated about being involved with the project.

Got a bad case of the Alsos today.

Dana's GOals, April 14th - 20th - How she did!

Okay, let's make this week a better one than last week! My only real accomplishment last week was finally finishing the third person prologue for BAD RAP (Lilith) and I have to say that was an uphill battle. Too much socializing last week! Not ONE blog post, which is really really bad. I know this, Dani... I know...

So. On to a new week!

1. Exercise as per usual. Modified yoga to accommodate what is most likely tendonitis. Ugh. - Walked several long lovely walks, did yoga at home two evenings, did the TRX exercises I could do and some assorted abs/waist exercises. I also ate very well: Fruit only before noon, tons of water, lots of fresh veggies and no proteins and starches in the same meal. I'm doing this for a couple of weeks with a friend of mine.
2. Answer interview questions for Jess's blog post on Murder Ink's blogsite for mystery authors. Da da Done!
3. Come up with interview questions for Jess. Also done!
4. Ask Mr. Fabulous if he'll help me pimp the tour and have Jess's interview on Pointless Drivel. And another one bites the dust.
5. Three blog posts -Technically yes, even though two of them were not for my blog. They're for the cyber tour Jess and I are doing. I'm still behind on posting on my own blog.
6. Work on BAD RAP. A little bit, but not nearly as much as I'd like. This publicity and marketing stuff is a time sucker.
7. Help Dave finish his taxes (that's tonight, Monday). Done and done!

That's enough for one week. We have ONE social engagement Friday night and otherwise, it's straight home to work!

Dani writing goals January 7-12

It's Book in a Week for me so I've posted a goal of 30 pages. For exercise, 1/2 hour of yoga every day and, weather permitting, walk three miles total. And eat raw every other day. I told hubby it's a one-bowl week and we wash our own dishes after! Hopefully, Dana and I will be working on her blog book tour and posting lots of good info on the Blog Book Tour yahoo group, right?

Monday -
Tuesday -
Wednesday - out of town
Thursday -
Friday -
Saturday -
Sunday -

Okay, goals everyone! Do you California girls, er, ladies have power?

NaBloWriMo

So far so good in my daily blog posting commitment in the National Blog Writing Month contest I joined. I was desperate to get the Church Artist blog up and running for Michael. Go take a peek:

http://churchartist.blogspot.com/
Very nice indeed!
And read up at the Queen of Socks about our spinning adventures and to keep tabs on Donna D.'s Blog Book Tour.
Love it! And I recognize some of the yarn! Spinning too? WHERE do you find the time?? No kids. Very little travel.
Are you back from the Klonkike? Yes... sorta. Any mining stories you can incorporate into Inez's life? Hmmm. They pan gold on the Bering Sea beach. That's pretty cool. Did you buy some qiviut?? Noooo... didn't even see any!

Wahoo - October 12 and so far a post at both blogs daily. Next I work on next week's posts leading up to Donna's blog book tour stop at Queen of Socks. The Church Artist blog has gotten 60 hits, too. I added sitemeters to the blogs.

Gearing up for NaNoWriMo

My blogs languish, and it's not without a bit of guilt that I admit it's a very baaaaaad thing for a writer to have a blog and then not keep it fresh. So I joined NaBloWriMo and committed to updating two of my blogs daily for the entire month of October. This will work out nicely with my Queen of Socks blog which hosts Donna Druchunas and her new knitting book on October 18. I'll have lots of "pillar articles" surrounding her tour stop which will drive more traffic to the blog. My second blog is for hubbo and his stained glass job. I've been wanting to document this one since the beginning of the year and never got around to doing anything, so now I've made a start. Take a peek here.

Walking at least a mile every day, and I got the new Lilias Folan book and DVD so plenty of yoga in my life, too. I think in my next career I'll become a yoga instructor. Lilias looks so good for someone over 70.

Oh, and I WILL get the blog book tour guide completed before the month is out, and perhaps even before all you WWW gals meet at the conference.

So how's it going with you? Inez keeping out of trouble? I'm just waiting for her to goof again and really end up pregnant!