It’s that time again! ROW80 check-in time! For those of you that don’t know what ROW80 is, it stands for A Round of Words in 80 Days. It’s a challenge done four times a year, and it’s meant for people with lives that can’t do a strict challenge like NaNoWriMo. Learn more about ROW80 and sign up on the website.

Basically, how I do my goals is that I have an overall blog post at the beginning of the round detailing what I want to accomplish this round. Then each week, I do three sections to each topic: what I meant to do, what I did, and what I will do. That’s me stating what my goals were, what I did to accomplish them, and what I’m going to do for next week. Because I’ve learned that if i don’t beat myself over the head with things, I don’t get it done.

Writing

So I sort of forgot to mention what I was going to do this week in my last check in. I mentioned what I did but not what I was going to do. I should fix that…

What I did this week

I wrote some more on The Iron Legacy.
I wrote a chapter on the second hockey book.

What I will do for next week

I want to finish The Iron Legacy by the next check in.
Write at least two chapters on the hockey book.
Rewrite another chapter on Standoff.

Blogging
What I meant to do:

Keep up 3 posts a week
Working on new theme
Plan book tour

What I did:

Decided to do away with my writing blog and condense it to just this blog.
Posted five times this week.
Still working on the new header for the new theme
Putting the book tour planning on the back burner for a couple weeks.

What I will do:

Schedule posts as early as possible to minimize scrambling.
Finish the damn header
Start working on the rest of the theme

Crafty Stuff
What I meant to do:

Dedicate a couple hours a week to relax and have fun

What I did:

Didn’t get around to it this week. I’m such a workaholic….

What I will do:

Make a new camera strap for my Nikon, or at least start one.

Publishing
Last week’s stuff I meant to do:

Work on setting up the store
Agonize over the submissions I have out

This week’s stuff  I did:

Work on setting up the store (this is actually on hold until I get the damn header done for the main site)
Agonize over the submissions I have out

Next week’s stuff I will do:

Agonize over the submissions I have out (I’m really good at this)
Tweak The Iron Legacy cover a bit. I think it needs to be a little more gritty than it is.
Once the cover is done for The Iron Legacy, I need to log on to Bowker and assign it an ISBN and get it set up on the retail sites.

Fitness

I’m adding a new section here this week because I need to get cracking on exercise. I started back at the gym this week so I’ve already started. Yay!

What I will do for next week:

Gym visits  three times in the week
Ice skating twice a week
Stop eating All the Things. (seriously, my diet will make anyone cringe…)

Overall

It’s been one of those “slow but steady” sort of weeks. School is keeping me mostly busy with the evil online class I’m taking, but for the most part it’s been fairly nice.

I got an iMac this week, so I’m setting that up. I’m putting Windows on it too. I told my dad that the Windows side would be for businessy things, like budgets and all that, and the Mac side would be for the fun creative side.

That’s it for me. I’m off to go dive bomb some #ROW80 blog posts with comments.