Dani's goals - August 27 - September 3

Okay, I'll beat you by one page on your 20-page goal and by one mile in that time period. Neener neener. After I eat all that chocolate. And end up looking like our friend to the right. I notice you're walking very well already. What about writing? How is that going?

Week of Aug. 25 - Sept. 3

... OK, it's more than a week for the post, but it's easier for me to work it this way, since I'll be off to visit my sister during most of it.
Your naggy sister wants to know: Has the weather improved? I have chocolate for you! And....

How's the VBT draft going??


WRITING (goal: 2 pages a day on THE BOOK. Total: 20 pages)
Aug. 25 -
Aug. 26 -
Aug. 27 -
Aug. 28 - .5 page... and then my laptop shut down on the plane! :-O
Aug. 29 -
Aug. 30 -
Aug. 31 -
Sept. 1 -
Sept. 2 -
Sept. 3 -

WALKING (goal: whatever I can do...)
Aug. 24 - 1.5 miles
Aug. 25 - 1.5 miles
Aug. 26 - 1 mile
Aug. 27 - 1 mile
Aug. 28 - .5 miles trekking through NYC subways
Aug. 29 - 7 miles -- following my sister around in her dog-walking business... and this was a "slow" day for her!
Aug. 30 - 4.5 miles (on vacation)
Aug. 31 - 3.5 miles (on vacation)
Sept. 1 -
Sept. 2 -
Sept. 3 -

Beaming up up and away....

Hiya!
It's been a do-everything-but-nothing week ... we're packing frantically for our 24-hour family vacation to Monterey (yesterday i droive a carful of HS seniors to tour UC Santa Cruz... possible college venue?). Since hubby's doing the drive to Monterey, I'm taking my printout of chapters so far and reading in the car.
Looking forward to your VBT draft!

Weekly goads, er, goals August 20-26

NAG*NAG*NAG

I see no goals happening here..... has everyone beamed up to the Mother Ship??

Okay, since we're already late and into the week:

I will finish a rough draft of The Blog Book Tour Guide for Writers and send it to my Nag Sister by August 27 for a quick read-through. I'm thinking about 20 pages.

Exercise - too hot and skeetery for much walking so three yoga sessions. Mike and I are taking spinning classes so I'm a bit focused on that right now. We'll be out of town towards the end of the week.

I'm presuming you're involved with getting the youngsters back to school? Or you really did beam up to the Mother Ship? Where arrrrrrrre you??

Nag

HeY! I'm nagging here!

HA! Love the picture!
Sorry! I've had a crazy week... wrote up a press release about the Colorado Book Award and did a guess blog on coffee (!) that will appear this weekend, I think, on the "Killer Hobbies" blog.
I really really need to work on my DRAFT! AAAAUUUUGGGGHHHHHH!
I feel like this burro...

Dani Goals w/o August 13

I'm taking this week off! Will putter around with some old writing.... in particular the Blog Book Tour write-up. But, it's too stinkin' hot to walk or do anything that requires movement. So I'm going to read, sew, get ready to re-do my writing room, and try not to eat and drink too much of this sort of libation!

OH, and hopefully kick-start the WWW reading group although I have yet to receive my copy of Sherry Monahan's book. Are you going to play? I hope so.... since we are such a small group of WWW supporters.

Posted to WWW blog by mistake....

I wonder if anyone noticed.... LOL.

What a failure this week has been! All the way around. Not much writing, no editing, and it's been too stinkin' hot to walk. Blech. Dead cats. Dead Golf (car). And the most amusing thing in all of it.... my horoscope says my ruling planet, Jupiter, is finally moving forward and I am now in the best six months of my life so far! Oh, whoopie ding-dong! I can't even imagine how bad it might have been if Mercury had been retrograde.I did finally get my presciption for reading glasses into the optical shop and hope to have decent glasses next week. Maybe for a few months I'll be able to read before I have to get laser because the lousy new lenses are clouding up already. How can this be? I think the entire medical market is a scam. Wouldn't surprise me if I hadn't needed any cataract surgery at all.... just a decent eyeglass prescription! Stinkin' hundred degrees plus here. Only a slight heat headache though. I swear the progesterone cream is helping enormously with the meno-moments. Did I send you research links for that? I'm fairly convinced of the theory behind estrogen dominance. Now I only wish I cared enough to write about it!

NagNagNag

So how's it going, you two? Getting lots of writing done?

Ummmm... lots of walking? did you say walking??

Dani's Goals August 6-12

Gosh, sorry to be so out-of-touch. We were out of town most of the weekend, and then Monday, one of my little furry family members had a sudden health crisis and.... sadly.... died. It was dreadful for all of us, particularly because he was in a good deal of pain at the end. Death stinks. Didn't I just make that comment a few weeks ago??
Oh Dani ... I'm so sorry about your kitty. :-(

Anyway.... goals.

Writing - 30 pages hahahahaha
Monday - zip
Tuesday - 2 pages
Wednesday - 2 pages
Thursday - 1 page
Friday - zip
Saturday - zip
Sunday - zip

Walking - 7 miles plus some yoga
Monday - zip
Tuesday - zip
Wednesday - zip
Thursday - zip
Friday - 1 mile
Saturday - 1.2 miles
Sunday - 1.2 miles

My goal is to get the eBook for the blog book tour roughed out. Also, I must get Mike's St. Catharine blog at least started as the church is waiting for it. I have a good deal of that written, just need to match up photos which are also close to ready.

So I'm thinking of buying a MacBook. It would be my first Mac ever. I presume you recommend them?

I love Mac computers. I have a laptop (Powerbook G4) and there's just a couple of things about it I *don't* like:
1) the keyboard ... keys are closer together than on a regular keyboard. So, I bought a regular keyboard I can attach for heavy-duty writing.
2) screen ... a little small (even though it's bigger than a lot of laptops). I just live with this...

Ann's Goals, Aug. 6 - 12

Ready to put a feather (or several) in your cap??
Now's the time to post your goals for the week...

WRITING -- 30 pages (yikes!)
Monday -1.5 pages
Tuesday -1 page
Wednesday -1.5 pages
Thursday -ZERO pages ... guess all the 17-yr-old b-day partying caught up with me...
Friday - 2.5 pages ... but all ancillary stuff, not on *THE BOOK* I resolve to do one more page, book-related, tonight....
Saturday -
Sunday -

WALKING -- 7 miles (... if I'm lucky, that is!)
Monday - 1.2 miles
Tuesday -1.2 miles
Wednesday -ZERO miles ... argh!
Thursday -1.58 miles
Friday -1.8 miles ... so, with all this walking, why do I weigh 5 pounds more???
Saturday -
Sunday -

Time's a-wastin'

How are you doing? Here comes the weekend... are you going to take the weekend off? Almost time to post our BIW goals and other goals for next week!

TICKTICKTICKTICKTICK...... I guess I'll be writing a bit on Saturday while we're in Burlington! Not sure what yet, but I'll upload Alphie and see what's there to revise. And maybe take my notes for the VBT eBook. Since I have the blog and lens set up for the Blog Book Tours, I really need to get the free eBook on both.

One wonders....

.... if we're using our exercise as an escape from writing! We seem to be hugely successful at walking of late! And doing yard work.

Write. Keep writing. See inspiration below.

Hmmmm... You're right. We're walkin', all kinds of things, but writing...??
One thing I've discovered: Walking in the a.m., first thing, is GREAT!
Now, I have to find when those "open spots" for writing are. During the day, I think. Evenings don't seem to work when everyone's home....

Well, since neither of us has a day job, one would think the whole day is an "open spot".... right? I haven't gone to an office in decades, but you might have to go the library or something to get into the right mindset. I mean..... are we full-time writers or not?

Hmmmm... good question! I felt more like a full-time writer when I was "captured" 8 hours a day in a work setting. I feel like a ghost (?or a fake?) "working" at home. Maybe it's all those years in the (corporate) world!

Dani's goals w/o July 30

My goal is to attempt the following under threat of having to wear a lead corset for the entire month of August:

Writing - 10 pages
Monday - zip
Tuesday - zip Wednesday = Writing day!!!
Wednesday - zip
Thursday - 1 page
Friday - 2 pages
Saturday - zip
Sunday - zip
Total - 3 pages

Exercise - walk 10 miles + 15 min. yoga + 1/2 hr. scything daily
Monday - 1.5 miles + 30 min. yoga + 1.0 hour of reel mowing (whew!)
Tuesday - 1.0 miles Way to go!!!
Wednesday - zip... Where are you??...
Thursday - 1.0 mile and mow 1/2 hour
Friday - zip
Saturday - zip
Sunday - zip
Total -

Revising/Editing/Consolidating files - 25 files and write first draft for VBT eBook
Monday - 39 pages of VBT notes read and reviewed for outline
Tuesday - 55 pages of VBT research reading Wow! Great progress!
Wednesday - zip
Thursday - zip
Friday - zip
Saturday - zip
Sunday - zip
Total -

We'll see what I can accomplish. I also really need to post a few things to Love of Place, so that may mean more than two pages a day of writing. Plus, I'm helping Mike solder windows and we'll be installing at the church one day this week. But, I plan to take Alphie to write there.

Now tell me what you think of the idea that we take the weekends off except during BIW weeks? Okay, well guess who will be trying to do some writing on Saturday. Sunday to Colorado Springs, so I doubt I get anything done except buy a pedometer! Not a particularly productive week, although I think I've done some good moodling for BIW.

Ann's Goals for week of July 30 - Aug. 5

Heeeeere we go! (And sure, we can take weekends off ... although I may use it if I need it!)
If I don't make my goals, I'll... I'll... give up chocolate for a week! (Oh, the terror!)

WRITING -- 10 pages total
Monday -- Zeeeeerrrooooo
Tuesday -- nada, zip
Wednesday -- 0
Thursday -- .5 pages (new, in rewrite)
Friday -- 0
Saturday -- 3 pages
Sunday
GRAND TOTAL

WALKING -- 7 miles total
Monday -- 2.21 miles
Tuesday -- 1.54 miles Gosh, already halfway... nice job. Now go write!;)
Wednesday -- 2 miles
Thursday -- 2.25 miles
Friday -- 2.11 miles
Saturday -- zero
Sunday
GRAND TOTAL

EDITING -- 7 pages total
Monday
Tuesday -- hard copy edit of 5 pages. Now to type it in! (It doesn't count until it's in the computer!)
Wednesday
Thursday -- 6 pages (in the computer!)
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
GRAND TOTAL

Okay!

Queen of Sevens this week..... next week, up the ante to eight?

I dare you. Just so you don't get into a rut. Now the real question

is: How much would either of us have accomplished this past

week without some nagging and accountability?

Here are some treats for you, too! Yummy!

Is it the thought that counts? Now post your goals!

;)

Write. Keep writing.

And how about this?? Donna D. posted it on WWW. Her husband sent it to her. Sounds like a good fight song!

Subject: 10 Steps to Becoming a Better Writer

1. Write.
2. Write more.
3. Write even more.
4. Write even more than that.
5. Write when you don’t want to.
6. Write when you do.
7. Write when you have something to say.
8. Write when you don’t.
9. Write every day.
10. Keep writing.

Dani's Writing Goals w/o July 23

I learned how to turn photos into screensavers! Here's my Baby Girl who is looking me in the eye from the computer and telling me to get to work!


WRITING! (3 pages daily = 21 pages total on Virtual Book Tour eBook)
Monday - 2 pages
Tuesday - zip
Wednesday - 3 pages
Go, go, go!! You're doing great!
Thursday - 2 and just barely
Friday - zip
Saturday- 2 pages
Sunday- zip
TOTAL- 9 pages Hmmm. That wasn't so hot.

WALKING! (1 mile daily = 7 miles total + scythe 3x + yoga 3x)
Monday - 1.7 miles
Tuesday - zip although I did cement windows which is exercise!
Wednesday - 2.0 miles and 1/2 hour of yoga
You "walk the talk!" Yay, Dani!
Thursday - 1.0 miles and 1/2 hour of yoga.... cut short by rain!
Friday - 2.0 miles and 1/4 hour of yoga
Saturday - 2.0 miles
Sunday - 15 min. yoga and 2.2 miles neener neener ;)
TOTAL - 10.9 miles and 1 1/2 hours of yoga

EDITING (read 100 pages and shred ... just sometime this week)
Monday - zip
Tuesday - zip
Wednesday - read out loud 25 pages of prior writing... a start!
ALLLLRIIIIGHT!!!
Thursday- maybe some shredding tonight
Friday - Tag Mar/Apr/June 05 BIW files and read... that wasn't too bad!
Saturday - finally got the printer working and dumped or downsized a gazillion photos clogging up the works. Until midnight! Mike read HP until 3:30 AM!!
Sunday- zip
TOTAL- Something

In addition: Hook up new printer which means clean up computer station. Partly done.... now I need to try and get the software for the printer portion to load. Gag.Transfer bloated blog photo albums to Flickr. Shred at least 100 pages of printed material that I just HAD to print (in a prior life)! An even better idea is to roll them up and use as kindling this winter in the studio woodstove.
Kindling! Great idea!
Here's the weekend... time to GO GO GO! Sprint!

Ann's Goals

We're going to hit the bulls' eye this week!





WRITING! (3 pages daily = 21 pages total)
Monday -- zip-ah-dee-doo-dah...
Tuesday -- nada
HELP! Nagging definitely needed....
Wednesday -- 1 page --Thank you Mother Naggy! Spell has been broken.
Thursday -- 2.25 pages (?do fractions count?) Every inch counts!
Friday -- 1 page (ah! but check this out! My first attempt! http://quantumcorsets.blogspot.com/ )
Saturday -- 2 pages -- I sat here all frickin' day and only did TWO PAGES!! ... ARGHH!!
Sunday -- 1.5 pages...
TOTAL -- 7.75 pages....

WALKING! (1 mile daily = 7 miles total)
Monday -- 1.2 mile
Tuesday -- 1.2 mile
Wednesday -- 1.73 -- whoo-hoo!
Thursday -- 1.16 miles Hooray!!
Friday -- 1.2 miles
Saturday -- .6 mile -- double ARGH!
Sunday -- zippo
TOTAL -- 7.09 miles
HOORAY!!! ONE GOAL REACHED!!! (but barely)

EDITING (7 pages total... just sometime this week)
Monday Ummm........
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday .... pulled stuff together. Started on page one... hope to make headway this weekend!
Saturday
Sunday
TOTAL -- Okay, didn't do a thing here except get the stuff pulled together.... I REALLY have to buckle down!

Time to post new goals soon

And how about this for a new motto?

From Nags to Riches.

Okay, now get to it.... crack that whip!

You're on the homestretch!!

I LOVE the new motto! Absolutely, yes! Post new goals tonight. So far, I think you're the winner of this first go-round. However, let's agree that if we both MEET our goals, then it's winners all, and chocolate all around!

Chocolate, mmmmmm-yum!


Omigawd, that makes me want to eat the computer screen! :) I had a brilliant idea for sending chocolate. We could send gourmet hot chocolate mix. I mean, you can drink hot chocolate anytime, can't you? With a little schnapps? And whipped cream on top? I can make myself drink that to be polite. Har! You?

Quantum Corsets

Well, shoot. I wanted to get them side-by-side, but can't do it. I wanted them BOTH in the title block of the blog but couldn't do that either!
I used Firefox to noodle around, as it gives me a few more options than Safari, but still nowhere near as many as you have.
How do I shrink pics and move them around? Is there a button? No button.... I just dragged and grabbed corners and pulled them in. Let's see how this looks after I publish it.
Looks great... but I can't grab and pull. Oh well!
-- ann