If you’re here for the A to Z
Challenge, click here to go to my Y post.
But today is the last Friday of
the month, which means it’s update day for my Five Year Project bloghop. For
those of you who don’t know, I host a monthly bloghop with Beth Fred, where a
bunch of us set huge/crazy/very important goals. Then we update on the last
Friday of the month for a bit of accountability and encouragement. To sign up,
please list your big goal (not your name or your blog’s name.)
Right. So let’s look at what I got
done.
Goals for April:
Writing:
1)
I signed up for CampNaNoWriMo in April, with the goal set at 60k words.
I’m currently at just over 51k words. But I’ve
been pulling off Saturdays where I write/edit 7k words, so it’s still within
reach.
2)
Revisions to Wo6C3 (In case I don’t get them done this week, which I might
not.)
Done.
3)
Rough edits to ES1 using critique partner feed-back.
Done.
4)
Add 10k words to BvB2.
I wrote less than 10k here, but I did finish
the rough draft.
5)
Revisions to O1.
Busy with this, but I won’t be done until next
month.
6)
Start rewriting SS1
Still not, although I plan to prep SS1
tomorrow.
7)
Prep rewrite for VD
Nope.
8)
Work on CdW concept.
This neither.
9)
Add 5k words to StW.
Done. I also realized that this one will be
book 1 in a trilogy, so in future I’ll be referring to it as StW1.
10)
See if I can do more than 60k this month.
I don’t know if this’ll happen. Although I
might manage to get a few more words in.
Reading:
Since
I’ve got some huge goals up on the writing side, I won’t be putting too much of
a priority on this, but if I can:
Read
6 books.
I read 2.
Read
a few chapters of Les Trois Mousquetaires.
Nope.
Networking and Marketing
1)
Send out any out-standing posts for the Endless
blog tour.
*Sigh* I’ll have to do this on Sunday and
Monday. I just didn’t have the time. But I’ve got everything sent out until May
13th.
2)
Visit at least 25 blogs every day for the A to Z Challenge.
Nope. My average was a bit less than half that.
3)
Regular updates on Social Networks.
Mostly yes. Although I might skip my Wattpad
posts today in order to maximize writing time. I WILL hit 60k before this month
is out.
4)
Update Amazon’s Author Profiles
Done.
Life
1)
Find and maintain a balance between work/writing/life.
Better, but not where I want it to be.
2)
Cut out refined carbs.
Life really conspired against me on this one.
And probably will continue to do so next month.
3)
Continue vocal training.
I didn’t get to a single lesson thanks to my
job. See point #1.
4)
Go jogging at least once a week.
Ditto.
Overall, I actually got a huge
amount done, but I have to say pulling off 50k words so far along with crazy
work hours did give my energy levels a knock. Luckily work is supposed to calm
down some for at least a few weeks.
Not that I’ll be kicking back and
relaxing much…
Goals
for May:
1) 60k words written, 60 hours
spent on edits or some combination.
2) Find Crit Partners for Wo6C3.
Any takers? It’s book 3 in The War of Six
Crowns…
3) Wo6C3 rough edits.
4) Edit ES1.
5) Prep BvB2 rewrite.
6) Finish Revisions to O1.
7) Rewrite SS1. (Yep. This one’ll
be sticking around for a while, I suspect.)
8) Add 10k words to StW1.
9) Work on CdW concept.
10) Start Sci Fi project. (Acronym
still forthcoming.)
11) Edit Untethered Realms
Anthology short story.
Reading:
Read 6 books.
Read some chapters of Les Trois Mousquetaires.
Networking
and Marketing:
1) Get through blog tour for Endless.
2) Regular updates to social
networks.
Life:
1) Find and maintain a balance
between work, writing and life.
2) Find an exercise that I
actually can do without the weather getting in the way. Balance is one thing.
But let me just say that jogging just won’t happen if it’s cold and raining,
and the wind blows hard enough to topple a link truck.
How about you? How are your goals going?
