Well, I finally broke down and got a new iPhone. I got the iPhone 6, and I’m pleased that it’s much bigger than my 4 (I skipped the 5). I didn’t want one as big as the 6 Plus, though. I got the 16 GB one, which was the least expensive one. My 4 only had 8 GB, so I think 16 is plenty for me. Verizon has stopped doing the two year contracts. What you do now is pay full price for your phone in 24 months. Then they give you a credit on your phone bill each month. I also lowered my data plan to 2 GB since we had 4 GB of data and usually only use a half GB. So doing it this way, my phone bill will only be $2 more more month, and I have a brand new phone. Yay, me.
Wow, I’m sure you all skimmed that part of the post. How boring!
So onto ROW80. Here were my goals for the round:
1. Make my monthly word count goal of 12,739 for July, 12,740 for August, and 12,329 for September. (Based on 150,000 words for the year.) So far, I’m pretty much on track with this.
2. Finish writing the second in the mystery series written under my other pen name. It looks like this is going to happen unless I get swamped with editing jobs. I have one going and three coming up, but as long as they don’t all send them to me at once, I’m good.
3. Write at least 250 words a day on the sequel to Soul of a Vampire until I’m finished with the mystery, then readjust the goal when I’m writing ONLY that. (I have trouble writing two stories at once, but I’m going to try to write a LITTLE on that second story.) I’m behind on this one. I’m still trying to adjust to writing more than one story at a time. I did write 346 words on it today, so I’m getting there.
How did the rest of you do last week?
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A new phone! Does it have that new phone smell? I love the smell of new things.
On the writing front; still editing my novel, and I actually have been editing not ignoring it. And I’ve roughly plotted the novel to follow that one. So it’s been a productive week for me. Keeping myself distracted from life for a bit.
Now I’m getting ready for my annual sojourn East, to visit family and friends. Laugh, drink, and roll in merriment.
Enjoy your new phone and I hope you keep up with your goals!
Tata for now.
Yeah, I needed a new phone because I got where I couldn’t see the screen on my smaller one. 😛
I’m glad you’re working on your novel. You need to keep busy. And I’m glad you’re getting to visit with people. I hope you have a good trip.
I should step out of the stone age and get an iPhone. It would be convenient to be able to hop online if I needed to when I’m away from home. I’m probably going to wait another year when my current contract for the cheap phone I got now is up.
I’m trudging through the last book in the fantasy series. I just know it’s going to be hard to get back into romance. I’m sure for two weeks, I’ll be lucky to get 200 words in for the whole day. That’s pretty much how it always is when I take a long break from fresh, new writing. I’m not looking forward to overcoming the hurdle.
May you see much more progress than me!
Yes, you really should get some kind of smart phone. These days, a phone is also a computer and a camera. All wrapped up in one. 🙂
I know you’ll be glad to be done with the fantasy series. I’m sure when you get back to your romances, it’ll all come back to you, and you’ll be productive.
I started a second story, and have a third idea in the works. First time in a long time I have have this much creativity coming out of my grey matter. Am hoping to keep the flow going.
Sounds like it’s been a good week overall.
Lots of creativity is good! My biggest fear is that I’ll run out of ideas. Right now my problem is I run out of time.