Gearing up to nag

Really, really nag........... lotsa nagging coming up soon.

Dana's Goals, April 21st-April 27th

I'm gonna have to jam this week 'cause I'm out of town Friday night through Sunday doing a Twilight Tour at the cathouse. Long drive Friday night and Sunday coming back home. Ugh. But I will get to see all the cats!

Anyway, what I have to get done before I go:

1. Post for Cozy Chicks on LLC and meeting Jess Lourey.
2. Post for Killer Hobbies on theater and baking and how they relate to MFH
3. Review August Moon for Mysterious Musings
4. Get my cyber tour schedule up on my website and my blog.
5. Get something posted on my own blog, fer crissake!
6. Start chapter one of BAD RAP and make minor revisions to prologue.
7. Exercise as per usual.

Hey, where are all the links to these blogs??

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!

Early goals

Hi y'all,

I'm still mostly out-of-town and wrapped up with installing the mural from hell in an orthodox church. My goal next week is to document that project to date on a new blog. Also, to set up a gardening blog to go with a new Yahoo! group I created called Localvores of Colorado. And then hubbo and I are taking two months to write.... only write. We'll see if we accomplish anything. Here's a peek at the mural. This should turn into a mural painting book, too, for young American art students willing to do liturgical work:

That's me standing in the doorway and I'm 5'10" slouching, so you can see the scale of this thing, which we call the mural from hell. Well, it's The Last Judgment and only the bottom 1/3 is actually hell. Curious to me that we're installing this monster and major wildfires break out just south of town at Ft. Carson. Dick Cheney must have been in for a visit. Ooops. Who said that?

See the smoke billowing out from behind Cheyenne Mountain? About 15 square miles burned overnight.

What's everybody else doing? Are Dana (or Zhadi as she's known all over Planet Virtual!) and I the only ones with any writing goals? Ann, are you back at it again? Wanna join us?

Dana's Goals for April 8th-15th

Okay, I have made a decision. I am NOT going to participate in Script Frenzy this time around. I have two books I want/need to work on and while yes, I want to write the script, at this point in time it's just a diversion from working on the books. I've decided I'll work on it the days I burn out on the books, but dagnabbit, I'm going to focus! So. Goals.

Three posts this week.
5 completed pages on BAD RAP
Exercise.

I've got a corporate dinner Monday night and my sister's coming into town for the weekend, hence I'm not going overboard on the goals. but i want to complete the ones I've got.

I have spoken!

Dana's Goals, April 1st - 6th

And Happy April Fool's Day, all!

I have, perhaps foolishly, signed up for ScriptFrenzy 2008. So that's 100 pages in 30 days. I have written a script in less time, so it may or may not present a challenge. Considering the speed of my writing lately, I suspect it will be harder than I want it to be. But excellent practice!

I also have my WIP BAD RAP (or Lilith, as I also call it) to work on. And my blog to keep up on. I'm in the middle of Part III of my LCC 2008 post series.

So... here are my goals for the week:

1. 4 pages of script per day (Em...not so much. 2 pages per day, but I didn't get any writing done three days in a row because of social things at night and yesterday.
2. 1 page of BAD RAP per day (see above. I did work on it, but no page count to speak of)
3. 3 posts this week (yay for me, I did it! )

And I still have today (Sunday) to get some writing done.

Exercise is not optional - I will be walking, TRX'ing or yoga-ing every day unless ill. On days I don't walk to work, I'll be taking my ALpha with me on the Muni to facilitate the blog posts. I've been doing most of my blog writing that way for the last week and it's working well.

I did walk, i did yoga, but no TRX 'cause my elbow is well and truly screwed up. But lots of walking and one very good yoga class.

Stay tuned for my success rate! Hah!

Start thinking about this weeks goals

And post them by Sunday night or else!

Dani's Goals April 1-6

I signed up for Script Frenzy, too. I have never written a script and don't have a clue what I'm doing! But, what the hey. Couldn't one take a script later and revise it into a novel?

One blog post a day for me, even if it's just my personal journal blog.

Gotta keep reading three books a week for future blog book tours. Who knew this would take so much time? Have a good interview about cyberschmoozing at Blog Book Tours right now. Go see.

And exercise.... I have zippo energy after more than two weeks with this wretched head cold. Still hacking away, but if it warms up, I'll try to walk some this week. We had snow yesterday during which time the power went out for several hours, and of course, I was online and I crashed big-time! So computer issues may continue... don't know.

Hey everybody, go look at your April horoscopes at Astrology Zone! Just to see how bad it's really going to be. Snort!

Okay, sisters!

I see no posting and no nagging here. There are seven of us who should be participating. Who wants to get kicked out of this stable? Let's have some participation from everybody. Everybody! Or at least some very entertaining excuses.

My arms have laryngitis and that's why I haven't posted goals. Can't move.

Free Fiction Editing Workshop

A virtual friend, from whom I took a really good MSWord workshop is offering this editing workshop through BellaOnline. In case you're interested just go to http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art55228.asp

Happy week,

Dani

P.S. I'm sending this from my mailbox to quoe.nagsisters@blogger.com and I think you can do this, too.


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"Until you make peace with who you are, you'll
never be content with what you have."
Doris Mortman

Dani Goals w/o March 16

Happy Paddy's to everyone! My goals this week:

1. Update each of my blogs and post the link here so you can keep me honest
2. Plan my next fifty rural newspaper articles
3. Write three of those columns

I'm really needing to focus on the blogs to spiffy them up, so that's primary.

Tip-toeing quietly back into the room...

Howdy, All!

Back from Left Coast Crime in Denver and slowly working my way out of depression caused by...well...just a really lousy couple of weeks, culminating with the loss of my baby boy, Haggis. He would want me to keep writing, though, so I'm going to post from very unambitious goals to start. I will start with:

Saturday, March 15th & Sunday, March 16th

1. Outline my adventures at Left Coast Crime and start a series of blog posts on the experience. Finished the outline.
2. Complete one blog post (did a blog post, but not on LCC. )
3. Work on LILITH (well, I wrote a sentence and thought about it...)
4. Walk on beach both days (Yup, sure did!)
5. Do yoga stretches both days and some TRX'ing. (NOpe, crapped out on this. My stomach hurt too much to stretch and I twanged my elbow and am not working it)

I think I can manage that...

Post Your Goals Everyone

I'll be a bit late posting my goals this week, as I've been helping with the funeral of a neighbor who died last week. I contributed the obituary which turned out to be my writing assignment for last week. You can read it at www.lovefuneralhomes.com and then click on Shirley Trimmer. It was very interesting interviewing her children over the weekend. And small town funerals are certainly something to write about! Anyone else doing some writing this week? If you're having a tough time with your current project, why not post in your life journals about what's going on. I actually set up a secret blog for a diary as I'm getting more involved with memoir-writing through Story Circle Network. Or what the hey... here's a writing prompt to get you going this week. Write your own obituary.

Congratulations again!

That calls for some high-kickin' dancing and singing! And a toast? Who has the drinks? What's it gonna be? Champagne? Mojitos?

Wow, that's some good exercise. Better lay off the sauce while I'm doing that.

Hey, do you need a reader? I'm good at typos. I just went through an ARC and caught a bunch. Alas, too late, so I thought I'd offer early on.

You are such an inspiration!

Estoy Terminado

Which is to say, the polish, it is done, it is emailed, and I am done, for now...

Update here - not only do I think it's done, the agent does too. 

Goals week of March 2!

Hi everyone, I thought I would post early since I'm in prep/clean-up mode this weekend. I belong to an online group called Book in a Week which has a group blitz-writing week every month. My posted goal is 30 pages, so I'm putting that here, too. I'm going to do blog posts in advance for several blogs which include:

Grow Organic which documents our organic growing experiment this year
Queen of Socks in preparation for hosting a blog book tour stop
Blog Book Tours in an attempt to up the traffic over there for future tour stops
The Joy of Living Creatively, Eric Maisel's world blog in which I'm a guest blogger

I'm still working on the Blog Book Tours Guide which has now morphed into a FAQ format.

I have got to get a handle on this blog writing. I'm always behind. I can't even imagine trying to crank out an eLetter every week like some people do. But I'd like to, so this is good practice.

I have a big chore I need to focus on. Have to move all my writing files to another computer, so I'm sending them to webmail until I can download that mail onto the other computer.

And I'll report daily starting on Monday.

Exercise, who knows? Weather is due to go winter again. I sure feel it when I don't exercise. I am so sore I can hardly move in the morning. Just read a good book about exercise, health and the brain called Spark. I highly recommend it. Speaking of reading lists, mine is way too long and yours is way too short. :) I have half a dozen books to add, but I feel like a total list hog!

Also, gotta knit mice for the Kitty Knits blog book tour stop on March 14th!

What's everyone else planning?

Who won chocolate in February?? Who was closest to meeting goals?

Hooray!

Lisa's New Goal

I got notes back from the last revision of my book. The response was very positive. I have some minor polishing to do and then it's D-O-N-E. 

So my goal is, do that, ASAP.

Meaning Statement

I will write to change the world.

I will achieve this in 2008 with three major projects:

• Syndicated weekly column for rural newspapers


• Childrens book series about organic farming


• A novel entitled, Ghost Town (synopsis to follow)

These projects will focus on environmental and sustainability issues, creativity, and fostering mutuality and understanding through communication and kindness.

I will also blog about these issues.

I will share with and support my writing colleagues in ways that further their writing goals. Two major focuses here are Blog Book Tours and Story Circle Network participation.

I will write daily! I will try to follow a goals list. Repeat after me..... I need chocolate. Give me brownies.

Lisa's Goals for...uh...what day is this?

M'kay. My goals, they are limited. I want to write at least four blog posts this week. I have had this blog since January 2005 and have really let it go recently (I blame my novel).

I just finished one. UPDATE: Okay, I just finished another one. Neither of these are heavy writing exercises; they are more about linking to articles that I found enjoyable/scary/informative.

Also, I have to do something about the frightening clothing pile on my papadam chair. It's scary.

Otherwise, I am waiting to get feedback from my agent (I still feel weird whenever I write that!) on the latest draft/polish of my book. I actually think it might be done this time. Or close to it.

And of course I will continue my semi-obsessive program of exercise...

UPDATE: I forgot to mention that I have decided I really must start cooking, at least a little. I love good food, and I do eat well, for the most part. But being single, being a person who likes lunch and gets home way too late for elaborate dinners...I've just never really gotten into cooking.

Well, when I was up in the Bay Area visiting Dana, I bought this very fancy enamel/cast iron panini pan at a Sonoma winery. It's good for grilling things too. I'd been meaning to get some cast iron cookware because the few times I do cook, I have these non-stick pans that are starting to make me paranoid - they are getting scratched, and I've heard that whatever it is they use to make things not stick, it's not really so good for you.

My experiment worked pretty well, I have to say. I had red snapper that I marinated in olive oil and white wine, with a little salt and fresh basil. I cooked asparagus and shitake mushrooms and onions as well. The fish stuck some to the pan but that might be because even though it's supposed to be pre-seasoned, I gather that it still takes a while for the pans to break in. Also, it's fragile fish. 

Anyway, I just bought some Lodge cast iron cookware on Amazon - made in the USA and very reasonably priced. A 10" skillet and a 5 quart Dutch Oven. The lid to the oven also fits the skillet. 

I still won't have much time to cook during the week (and I still need to get some decent cookbooks, especially Asian, because that's what I like to eat) but I am practicing for my future life as a full-time writer, doncha know! ;)