I woke one morning to a tree down over the driveway,
for no good reason. That night, however, we did have a thunderstorm, and
lightning struck our satellite dish, knocking it out. And thirdly, Hubby ran
into some medical problems, which has had him laid up since mid-week. (But at
least it’s not COVID!) They say bad things come in threes, so I guess that’s
where we are at. Until the next set of threes begins!
Here is the list of goals I had planned to work on
last week. To make things easy, I color-code my accomplishments: Green
highlight is goal accomplished, yellow highlight is worked on and red lettering
is a failure. I do throw in a random highlight for something which doesn’t fall
into those three categories, but I hate to commit to any more color.
1)
My novel, “The Truth Beyond the River”
a.
The proof isn’t supposed to get here until the 13th,
but on the off-chance it gets here sooner, I need to read it page by page as
quickly as I can and submit the final approval to Amazon. Proof hasn’t arrived.
b.
Marketing. Oh, what shall I do?
i. Continue
blogging about it. Done,
twice.
ii. Send
out an email via Mail Chimp. Done.
iii. Make
a list of who I need to send a copy to when I get my author copies. Done.
2)
Other writing
a.
“Holding all the Aces”, the memoir of my sister.
i. I
should read it over to see how much more work it needs. I’m thinking that while
the whole Amazon publishing thing is fresh in my head, I should publish this
too. It would be more as a family gift, but who knows. Did not look at it. And now I’m thinking that now is
not the time, it’s not calling to me like another project is (see the upcoming
goals).
b.
Research places to submit a couple of the short
stories I’ve written recently. Actually, I not only researched and found an e-magazine, I submitted a short story to
it. 😊
c.
Submit the fantastic pictures of loons I took last
month. Did not.
3)
Other stuff (this list used to be quite lengthy and complex,
but I am going to try to keep it simple; I’ve got enough going on and it is
summer!)
a.
If the weather is nice next weekend, put up the
camper and clean it out to get it ready for our next camping trip. Done.
b.
Try to help Hubby organize our new
garden shed. Not done.
Well, that looked like a mixed bag of
accomplishments and failures. Like all the color? I know I should be shooting
only for green and not the rainbow.
Goals for the coming week:
1)
My novel, “The Truth Beyond the River”.
a.
When the proof arrives, Monday or Tuesday, go
through it quickly, page-by-page, making sure I didn’t miss any more mistakes.
b.
Resubmit the version I worked on last weekend, after
I found four mistakes.
c.
Read that newest version through on-line and
hopefully find no mistakes, so that I can do letter d.
d.
Release the paper version!!!
e.
Order my copies of it.
f.
Marketing. Finally, on to marketing.
i. Continue
blogging about it.
ii. Send
out another Mail Chimp email, announcing the paper version is ready.
iii. Put
the book in the sidebar of my blogs.
2)
Other Writing.
a.
Pull out my next novel to write, the one where the
government recruits common people to be spies. Now that “Truth Beyond River” is
done, it’s time to write the next one.
b.
Continue researching places to send my short
stories.
c.
Submit those pictures of the loons.
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| the garden shed |
a.
Work on organizing the new garden shed.
b.
Start cleaning the spare room in the basement, in
anticipation of the additions to the family – two baby kittens! Arriving after
August 5! Two little girls named Timber and Ash. Cannot wait!
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| our last kittens, Alice and Ches |
How is everything going for you? Taking some time
off to just relax and enjoy the summer? Or stressing about all the things there
are to stress about? I hope not! Hang in there. Better days are coming.
Definitely stressing too, and wondering what else will go wrong. I hope things get better for you and your husband!
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