Goals for July

Anyone besides me thinking about it??

Dani's Goals for June

You know I think I like this monthly goals list better. So here for me:

1. The Blog Book Tours Guide and Squidoo lens Yay!
2. Kill a bunch of Darlings including blogs that aren't used Some but need to kill more.
3. Prioritize writing for the rest of the summer I have a rough idea. Could tweak this a little more.
4. Learn Vista Slowly and daily.
5. Learn OpenOffice.org Not even close and I'm having complaints that people can't open the odt files.... any ideas why?
6. Write articles for rural newspapers Not a one.
7. Collect author quotes for CafePress project No focus here at all.
8. Walk and garden daily Pretty much.
9. Renew the flagging yoga practice Not.
10. Do something with the Blog Book Tours blog! Finally did!

Dana's Goals for June

Oh yeah, back from the dead! Or my book tour... Book tour of the Living Dead! hah!

Anyway, I have been very very busy. I had a ghost writing project; non-fiction erotica to help a friend meet a project deadline. It was due June 1st and came to me smack in the middle of prep for the book tour and the tour itself. I managed something like 7000 words in four days and met the deadline. My pal has asked me to write five more mini-chapters, due by the 27th. So...that's what I'll be doing for the next two weeks. I have a Twilight Tour to emcee at the cathouse the weekend of the 21st, so that weekend will be taken up with driving to L.A., working at the tour and driving home. Ugh, yay, and Ugh, respectively.

I'm also working on the sequel to MFH: The Peruvian Pigeon, having found it more eager to write itsel than LILITH (which is still being pecked at). I also need to add to my blog roll and post three times a week. So... my goals for the rest of June are:

1. Finish four-five vignettes for the erotica project.
2. 1,000 words on MFH: The Big Snooze every five days
3. Post three times a week (long or short, doesn't matter)
4. Anything on Lilith will be a plus, not necessary.

Dani's goals June 1-7

30 pages for Book in a Week. Well, I may have eaked out 20. Well, it's better than a kick in teh teeth, madame!

Tops on the list to write is the Blog Book Tour Guide which has been written, but needs desperate re-writing and shortening. Getting there. Ah hah! The mysterious elusive guide. I remember hearing tales of this...

The rest of the pages will be blog posts which desperately need writing. Just my personal journal where I've been spewing a LOT. Heck, I haven't even been writing in a journal! But I'll tell ya more about that in the post I'm gonna write when I'm done writing comments here!

I'd also like to find a few more members who would participate. If you know anyone who could use some nagging and who needs to write daily, let me know. I'll invite them to join. I'm sick of nagging but that may just be because I did a trial run of a beginning blogging class and can't get the students to do the assignments. So I'll probably kill that blog and forget about teaching a class this Fall for Story Circle Network. It just takes too much energy trying to cheerlead everyone into participating. I just really don't want that job. Not here, not there, not anywhere. I don't blame you. One person can't generate and then maintain all the enthusiasm and momentum for anything, be it a writing assignment or relationship. It's a quick path to empty tanks...

Dana's Goals, The Rest of May1

Well, as is obvious from my absence of goal posting, I have been crazy busy, both at work and at home. Boska, my geriatric dog is finally fading out and much time has been spent giving her extra love and attention. I have, however, also been writing and am pleased to announce I've finally cracked my writer's block/fear of 'do I have another novel in me' and started the sequel to MFH. It's moving along nicely and I'm having fun, which tells me I'm working on the right project. I haven't given up on LILITH, just taking a break.

I also just got another time sensitive writing project from a very old friend of mine, who is now writing NC-17 'how to' erotica books and has a major deadline (June 1st) coming up. So she's paying me to help her finish it! Everything has to be done by the 1st and can I just say the timing is amazingly bad on this because my book tour with Jess starts next Wednesday night and I'll be gone a week, and I'm taking Boska up to Humboldt for one last visit with her dad. She will stay up there as she's going to be buried near Shmoo (the cat we lost a year ago January) under some beautiful redwoods. I'm hoping Brian and I will have one last weekend together with Boska, full of short walks and quality attention.

So very simply, my goals are to finish my portion of the project for my friend (I have about 13,500 words to do), give Boska as much love as she wants, and have a great book tour. And stay sane and drive carefully too!

Dave is helping me with the writing project and I really think we can get it done without too much stress. It will be a nice chunk of change ($1860) for the job.

Dani, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO NAG!!!!!!

You get a huge hug and some chocolates instead!

You are doing a fantastic job, and don't forget I'll be a first-reader on the next MFH book if you need one! Yay!

Hey!

Goals! Where are they? Eh? Are we scofflaws? Or what? Get on the stick! Where are the nags?

Jeezus that gives me a headache.

Dani's goals w/o May 4th

50 pages for Book in a Week to include five posts to my personal journal and 10 blog posts

The remaining pages.... I don't know yet. Something important I really need to get off my desk. I have way too many unfinished projects right now.

My horoscope assures me that I'll get more directed after May 9th.


What's everybody else working on?

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Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever. ~ Anonymous

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.