I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about my 365 Days to a New Life series, and I’ve been flailing that I haven’t posted every day as I’d originally intended. Then I realized that is kind of how I run my blog on a normal basis. So I’ve decided to clean up my life a little bit online, make it less me bouncing around and streamline it. So for this ROW80 update, I’m going to kind of talk about what I’m changing here and how it will affect this quarter’s goals.

Writing

This is probably the most affected by the changes I’ve been making. I realized after making a list of all the current WIPs and charting where they are in relation to being finished, that I give up a lot in the revision stage. Maybe I’m frustrated, maybe I’m bored, maybe the New Shiny asserts itself too strongly and whisks me away like the whore it is. I don’t know. The point is that I need to stop and take a step back and finish these works.

We’re going back to the hockey book, Off Her Game, to finish and clean up. I’m planning on a Jan/Feb release for this book. It might end up March, depending on how long this rewrite takes. I’m notoriously slow at revisions and editing. We’ll see how the rewrite goes.

I’ve been working  on my science fiction romance story, Stay on Target, for the last couple weeks. I’m enjoying it.

So, I think what’s going to happen is that I’m going to leap frog between the two for November. Hopefully, it keeps my attention long enough to get things done. I have at least five releases planned next year, hopefully more if I can get these done.

Blogging

I’ve begun to take my blogging more seriously lately. Not to do it as a promotional tool, but to do it because I enjoy it. The truth is that I love blogging. I love talking about  stuff and having a good time in the comments. But I also think that I need to improve here. i need to be more regimented, which is something that I struggle with and this is especially important as I get into promotional blogging next year. I’ll be doing a lot more guest posts on other blogs and such, so I need to be more organized with mine.

So, I want to post three times a week. Mom Mondays, Thinky Thursdays, and Story Saturdays.

Mom Mondays will be something new. I’ll be talking about being a single mom and raising kids and basically just every day stuff from my life. I might throw some money and budgeting stuff in there too. Those posts now tend to be my most popular so I think doing those with a little more structure might be more enjoyable to peeps.
Thinky Thursdays is basically whatever might be kicking it in my brain. Maybe it’s Twitter, or maybe it’s music I’ve enjoyed this week, or maybe it’s something in the publishing business world that stuck in my head.
Story Saturdays are my writing advice day. I love talking about writing process or whatever else about the craft of writing. My old blog was all about writing, because I loved talking about writing.

So, growing a little, trying to be a little more serious about myself. I think it’s going to be a good time. My struggle is going to be sticking with it. I’m infamous for not keeping with the schedule, but I’m going to try to get them done at the beginning of the month so I don’t have to worry.

I’d also like to make the newsletter a little more regular, maybe a once a month thing. Have to figure out the schedule first and see how the blogging works out before I go committing to that. Right now, I only send it out with new releases and when stuff happens. That might be good enough.

Personal

A lot of the things that I’m changing is because my personal life is changing a lot. And that’s good, because when I started blogging about my life, I wasn’t happy, and now… Well, I’m still not happy, but I see the potential that I could be soon. Just need to get through this part of my life, and on to better parts. Very much possible.

I have a lot of financial goals that will make my life happier. Yes, I know money isn’t the key to happiness. In my case, I need to be on stable financial ground and then most of my stress and unhappiness will float away. So I don’t need to be rich, but I do need stability and for me, money will bring that, provided that I budget it correctly. Heh.

I recently bought a month membership to an MMA place. I’m excited about starting this. It probably won’t be until January, but that’s okay. It’s something I’ve wanted to do for months.

Overview

So that’s the new changes for this week. To affect these changes, here’s the goal list for this week:

Write four blog posts this week, including my ROW80 update on Sunday.
Write 10k of new words on Off Her Game and Stay on Target (not each, but combined)
Maybe sleep a little bit here and there. Maybe.

How’s everyone else doing with their goals? Working hard? Hardly working?