I’m a little late with today’s checkin. But I got it done. It’s been a good couple weeks for me, y’all. I’m finally settling into a workable routine.

Writing Stuff
My goals:

Finish the hockey romance, Off Her Game, and submit that to the requested places.
Write To Score His Heart, hockey romance #2.
Edit and publish the Christmas novella by late October.
Write zero draft of the untitled fantasy bounty hunter story.
Plan writing/publishing schedule for the Spring/Summer 2013 season.

Current Progress:

Christmas novella is out to CPs. So this week I’ll be working on the edits as I get them back.
In the meantime, I’ve been working on a new science fiction romance that I hope is going to be a novella length. It’s been fun to write, mostly because it’s not required to be finished at any certain time.
I have the final edits to do for Off Her Game to do, which I’ll probably work on next week before sending off to CPs.
I still haven’t planned out the Spring/Summer yet. I’m really trying to see what I get done in the fall, because I tend to write more in the fall/winter than I do the rest of the year.

Design Stuff
My goals:

Continue to work on school design projects. I’m in the home stretch. I have three quarters left.
Line up projects for 2013. (So, like, if you need some graphic work done… I have some openings…)
I really want to stretch my knowledge and improve my skills so I’ve bought some digital art and Photoshop books. My plan is to read one book or work from one book every two months.
Create a stockpile of pre-made covers to offer on the website in the future. I actually have about 20 right now, but I’m really looking to expand that to 80 before offering them for sale on the website. I like having buffers.

Current Progress:

Got all projects done last week. Yay! Got a few more to do this week. I love having a lot of art classes, but they keep me really busy.
I’ve got two more projects for 2013. I think it’s to the point where I need to figure out how many a month I can logically get done.
I read a Creative Freelancing book, which is more about the business aspect of the design process. It was a really good book.
I haven’t had time to do the pre-mades and honestly, it’s not really a high priority at the moment.

Personal Stuff
My goals

Continue to blog every day for the 365 Days to Life series, because that’s really fun and it’s doing what I’ve needed it to do.
Increase my income 15% to put me on the path to a new, better quality of life.
Stick to the Total Money Makeover plan and get an emergency fund set aside before the end of the year.
Stick to the actual WeightWatchers plan to lose 15 lbs.

Current progress:

Need to work harder on the blogging. It slowed down a lot this week. So I’m going to work on getting better at that.
Being more strict with myself on my diet, and it showed. Lost two lbs this week.

My weekly plan

So we went over the overall goals. Here’s my weekly lists.

Last week’s goals:

To finish and get the Christmas novella edited and formatted.
Blog at least every other day.
Start the detox diet.(I lost two pounds!)
Start the critique of a CP’s manuscript.(Yay!)
Don’t kill myself with school.(Obviously, still alive…)
Go out and have fun at least one night. (I actually have two nights planned, but we’ll see how it works out…)(Had a great time!!)

This week’s plan:

Got the Christmas novella done, sent to CPs. Due back at the end of this week, so final edits will be next week.
Blogging sort of fell off this week. I’ll be back at it this week though. Want to post at least 4 times.
Also scheduling guest blogs for November this week.
Diet is going well. Sticking with that. Want to drop another 2 lbs.
I love my CPs. Want to get through five chapters this week on one of the manuscripts.
Get out of the house at least one day.
Exercise 3 times this week.

I think that’s it! How’s your goals going this week?