#ROW80 is A Round of Words in 80 Days. It’s a quarterly writing challenge where you define your personal goals and blog each week about your progress. It’s made to be flexible and allow for tweaking.
*crawls out of the Meadow of New Releases.
Okay, I’m being silly with that, but whatever!! I haven’t updated since just before Thanksgiving since this last week was both my birthday and the release of a shared-world-series of books. I’ve been busy. Real busy!
First, the surprise Thanksgiving I hosted went off really well. I made brisket, lots of sides and blackberry cobbler from scratch. Everyone went home full and I had leftovers for days that were versatile and yummy. I was also one of those shoppers out on Thanksgiving night, cleaning the stores of their goods. Don’t hate just because I’m 75% done with my shopping!!
My birthday was awesome. I’ll do a longer post about it, but I finally got a new tattoo. Possibly the worst one yet for the consistent amount of pain. My arm still wins for the most painful because 6.5 hours of that shit is something I should not have done. We discussed preliminary stuff for my foot tattoo, which will be done in multiple stages because–hello! Pain!
All of this said, it was a grand week for writing. Let me post my revamped list of goals real quick.
- Finish Line of Duty, Good Guys Wear Black #2
- Edit Line of Duty, Good Guys Wear Black #2
- See How Zombies Stole Christmas released
- Finish Project Paper Bag
- Edit Project Paper Bag
Because of the deadlines of the Good Guys Wear Black and Project Paper Bag books, I took this last week off from my day job. Great idea since I really needed every spare second of time to write. I went into this week of writing crazy with Line of Duty to be edited. I’d finished it just before Thanksgiving in a sudden burst of words. Project Paper Bag was well into the second act, but with a huge chunk still to write. I began the crazy writing Friday and it’s still going today.
Line of Duty is done. Hurray! I mean done-done. The draft is finished. Edits are done. I have a few people reading it, but with the exception of pacing in a few select scenes, I feel good about it.
Project Paper Bag had about 27,000 words written on it. I finished it Friday, and began editing Saturday. I’m around 40 pages into a 200 page manuscript, single spaced, small font. My goal is to be through it in a week to give readers a week to go over it before it’s off to be someone else’s problem. I’m hoping I can actually TELL people about this very, very soon, but I’m not uttering a word until I get the green light.
How Zombies Stole Christmas is out there!!
I accidentally saw a few reviews for the novella. I don’t like to read reviews. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, and I know that a wide range of reviews is ultimately good for a book–I just don’t want to read them and let reviews get me second guessing myself. But, the reviews I read were really good and it seems that people really “got” the characters and world.
So far the book is up at these retailers:
- Amazon – http://goo.gl/XORkwJ
- Barnes & Noble – http://goo.gl/0WR1Og
- All Romance eBooks – http://goo.gl/T25PxZ
- Taliesin Publishing – http://goo.gl/skmH8F
All in all, this has been an awesome week. Here’s to the holidays!!
WOOHOO on finishing Line of Duty!!!
OMG it’s out! I have been dying to get my paws on How the Zombies Stole Christmas.
Good luck with your goals this week and congrats on the meadow of new releases. They have ROCKED!
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It’s out there!! Go enjoy it. 😀
not surprised you haven’t checked in – such a lot of excitiment – well done:) and all the best for this coming week:)
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Belated happy birthday. I wish you the best with all your projects. I’m envious of how productive you can be. Even if I took a week just to write, best I’d end up with is 10k. You’re amazing!
I was highly motivated!!