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
What I meant to do this week:

So today I’ll finish the menage bunny
Then I’ll get back into the new contemp so I can finish that before the end of the month.

What I actually did this week:

I finished the menage story!
i finished the new contemporary romance story!
I wrote a unplanned short story!
I started editing the menage story too!

What I will do this next week:

I’m going to put aside the menage this week and start editing the contemporary romance since I need to be done with the content pass before I leave for Margie Lawson’s IMC class in CO.

Blogging and Social Networking
What I meant to do this week:

Work back up to three a week.
Schedule, schedule, schedule. I suck at this.
I put up a Guest Blogger page but I haven’t been actively seeking. Probably should do that.

What I actually did this week:

I posted twice, three if you count last week’s update, because honestly, these updates are kinda long…

What I will do for next week:

Post three times
Sit down and write out a couple more writing posts for Tackle it Tuesdays
Need to work at scheduling guest bloggers still.

Publishing
What I meant to do for this week:

Continue to refresh my email a lot. I’m supposed to hear back on almost all of them this week.

What I actually did and what I will do for next week:

Refreshing my email.

Crafty Stuff
What I meant to do this week:

Finish writing the Kickstarter proposal and work out the details as to donation prices, prizes, ect.
I still want to do that camera strap…

What I actually did this week:

I made a video for the Kickstarter campaign.
I wrote up a rough draft of the Kickstarter campaign.

What I will do for next week:

Sit down and figure out how much to set for the Kickstarter goal
Figure out donation prizes and such.

Fitness and Health
What I meant to do this week:

Workout three times.
Situps and pushups every night.
Do better with the Points.

What I actually did this week:

Worked out twice
Sort of forgot about the situps and pushups
Changed my daily Points goal. Brought it down.

What I will do this week:

Work out three times (you wouldn’t think this would be so hard…)
Do the damn situps and pushups.

Overall

I’m so happy with myself this week. Lots of writing. Not much else, really. I finished the menage, A Perfect Weekend, the romance meant for the Ball & Chain call, No Strings Attached, and an unplanned shorter romance that I might expand later called Unlock Her Heart.

I still haven’t heard back from the submissions I have out. That’s okay though. Only one is actually overdue and I’ve sent a little nudge email. June is going to be a lot of editing which means July will be critiques and beta reads and August will probably be a major submission month. I know there’s one that will be submitted in August because that’s the deadline for the Ball & Chain call.

Other than that…I’ve had a really good week. How’s everyone else’s been?