Hello there!
Welcome to the weekly #ROW80 check-in.
Here are my goals (and how I’m doing):
- Organize my new home and my new schedule. Almost done. Actually, I’ll consider this done, since we won’t add anything new to the house for a while and my office is workable ;)
- Once my life is normal again (or almost), find a gym and exercise 3 times per week. I actually went to the gym on Monday and signed the contract. Then went to classes on Wed (pilates mat) and Fri (Groove … or dancing). Not 3 times a week, but progress! Next week will be 3x for sure ;)
- Participate on Crafting the Sensual Novella Workshop from April 9th to May 6th. Today is the last day, so done.
- Finish revising my novel, DESTINY GIFT. Done! Done! Done!
- Start a new novel or novella and get as far as I can with it. Still on planning stages, though I wrote 2 scenes already and have the outline for many others scribbled down. I filled the beatsheet too (Save the Cat! anyone?). I’m gonna try to finish it in May, because of … (look at next line) …
- In June, participate of the JuNoWriMo. To count, I’ll start writing something new here. I”m thinking a novelette and novella, and add up to 50k words with both.
- Read 5 books each month (year total = 60). On track.
- Social network: blog at least once a week (not counting #ROW80 checkins), comment on blogs every other day, and tweet a little everyday. Done. May will be a busy month on my blog, with lots of blog hops and blog tours.
This week was busy! I finished revising DESTINY GIFT, and there was also the launch of my group blog NA Alley … did you guys check it out yet? You should ;) We’re a group of seven writers trying to promote the New Adult category, which isn’t recognized yet, but we won’t change what we write because it doesn’t exist. Anyway … you can visit the blog and read all about it there. Oh, there’s a giveaway going on there!
And Friday, I spent the day with a migraine and because of that, couldn’t focus on anything. Got nothing done on Friday =(
I think I forgot to say this before, but Saturdays and Sundays are family days, where I try to do nothing writing-related, other than read a book after sleeping. I’ll probably add that to my “goals* …
That’s it for now.
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Cheers,
I love Save the Cat :) I think there’s a lot of us that likes to use that for novel work. Congrats on your goals this week. You were on fire!
Congratulations on finishing DESTINY GIFT! I’m in the process of editing my latest novel myself and I can only imagine how good it feels to be finally done. And I’m very impressed with everything else you manage to do this week, I hope this week is just as good for you. Happy writing!
EM Castellan recently posted: A Round of Words in 80 Days – Check-in #4
Congrats on finishing the revisions of Destiny Gift – huge accomplishment. I’m a Save the Cat type as well, the beat sheet is uber useful for the first planning stages, although I go a bit beyond it before I start to seriously write. I have NA Alley tabbed to look at later in the day, sounds interesting.
Have a fantastic week, Juliana and all the best for the new projects :)
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Yay! Congrats on finishing the revisions on Destiny Gift! You’re doing great with all the progress on your goals! I took a quick look at NA Alley and plan on stopping by again later this week; love the idea behind it! Good luck this week!
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You’ve had a fantastic week! Go you! And completed revisions…awesome. I’ll stop by NA Alley a bit later but love that you guys are doing this. Wishing you another amazing week Juliana :)
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Congrats on such a great week!! You should totally add the weekends off goal. I bet it helps a ton with all that you’re trying to balance. Hope this week is even better and with no migraines in it.
Congrats on finishing Destiny Gift! Sounds like it’s been a busy week. You definitely should keep weekends free and restful! You’ve earnt it. :)
Robin Moran recently posted: ROW80 Check-in 5th May
Great progress, Juliana! It sounds like you’re settling in and starting to really knock off some goals. Best wishes for your novella. Have a fabulous week!
Julie Glover recently posted: Life’s a Beach and #ROW80
If I can continue with a book I’ve already begun I will probably do the June challenge.
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Wow, all I see is “done” almost all the way through. Congrats! That’s a really great accomplishment, and I’m glad to see you got your revising done. And yay for the gym! We’ll both be working hard for this coming week. :)
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You have been a busy bee!!! Great work….I get tired thinking of all the moving and soaring you have been doing!
Junowrimo? Sounds exciting and I thought ‘I’m gonna do it too’ but then I remembered it is one of the busiest months EVER at work and my niece or nephew will hopefully be with us by the start of June….I guess I will just cheer ou on!!
Have a great week!!
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