Ok, ok, I know. I’m a day late checking in. Sunday was just a whirlwind of STUFF. Anyway, I’m a couple of days behind on my word count, but I finally have my computer back. Yay! So no excuses now. I see no reason why I can’t catch up to my goal word count in a few days. I’ve got the next scene in my head. :0)
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ROW80 Check In 4-11-11
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged check in, goals, ROW80, word count on April 11, 2011| 13 Comments »
Frustration!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged computer virus, frustration, ROW80, WIP, writing on April 6, 2011| 14 Comments »
Well, “life” has happened to me again. My husband called in a panic yesterday morning because our laptop had contracted a virus. It’s probably more like malware. It’s that stupid MS Tool that makes you think it’s really an anti-virus program and wants you to buy it because it found so many viruses on your computer. And you can’t do anything. No icons will work. The desktop background is gone. I restarted the computer in safe mode, but you can only do so much that way. You can’t save a Word document with any other name or location than the original. Luckily, I have my manuscript backed up on a flash drive. And, also luckily, I know the guys that work where I took my computer to get it fixed, and I trust them not to mess with my files. The big drawback (except for having to pay for the work) is that I’ll be without my computer for THREE DAYS. Yikes! What about my writing? My plans are to load my WIP on my work computer and spend my lunch hours the next two days writing. I hope no one messes with my plans! Grrrrrrrr! Anyway, I refuse to be beaten down by this setback.
On the bright side…I’m about 360 words over my cumulative goal of 500 words per day.
ROW80 Round Two
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged goals, Round One, ROW80 on April 3, 2011| 14 Comments »
Round One is over, and I didn’t get everything accomplished because of things going on in my life. But Round Two starts tomorrow and it’s a new challenge.
Goals:
1. Write an average of 500 words per day until my novella (part one of a series) is done. I’m expecting it to be somewhere around 25,000 to 30,000 words. So that will take 50 to 60 days. That will give me 20-30 days left to edit and get some people beta reading it. The editing goal will depend on how much time I have after writing the first draft, so that goal will be set later.
2. My secondary goal is to spend a little bit of time working on my garden gnome story from Round One. This isn’t a “have to” goal, just an aside if I have time. I can’t really give this one a measurable goal, so it’s kind of a maybe.
Good luck to everyone. Go writers!
Reflections
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged goals, last check in, Round One, Round Two, ROW80, writing challenge on March 24, 2011| 25 Comments »
As I look back on the first round of ROW80, I have some mixed feelings. I was doing so well at meeting my goals until my mom had a heart attack. The good thing about ROW80 is that it’s very forgiving and allows you to change your goals at any time. But I didn’t even set any new goals. This was mostly due to the tremendous work load from my full time job. I just can’t take that much work home and still write. Some people might be able to do it, but I just don’t have that much stamina. So I didn’t finish my book.
Turning to the bright side…Round Two is coming up and my work will hopefully slow down to the point that I won’t have to take work home with me. I won’t mention my ROW80 goals in this post because I’m sure there will be a chance to state those at the beginning of Round Two. I will mention one thing, though. I am determined to get in better shape physically because when I’m in control of my body, I seem to be in much better control of my mind. Funny how it works that way, but it always does for me. When I’m in control of one aspect of my life, the others start falling into place and it’s like a chain reaction.
I’ve really enjoyed doing this challenge with all of you. Even when I was really busy, I tried to be a halfway decent sponsor and encourage those in my group for that check in. I think I only missed 2 or 3 check ins when things were the worst.
Congrats to everyone who met their goals, and for those who didn’t, it’s not failure…just restructuring. I look forward to seeing familiar faces (figuratively, lol) and, hopefully, some new ones, too. Good look with Round Two!
An ROW80 Update…Sort of
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Round One, Round Two, ROW80, WIP on March 21, 2011| 10 Comments »
I really don’t have a lot to say. Most of you know that I had to put my WIP on the backburner when my mom had a heart attack. As soon as she was back to normal, the craziness broke loose at my full time job, causing me to take work home nearly every day. There’s no way I can work all day, work at night, and THEN try to write. (Maybe when I was younger, LOL.) Anyway, things are slowing down just a tad here at the office, so I’m trying not to take work home this week. Now my main concern is whether or not to try to finish my WIP from Round One or put it aside until I finish my Round Two project. Or maybe try to do both at the same time. We’ll see.
ROW80 Check In A Day Late
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged blogspot, goals, new goals, ROW80, wordpress on March 3, 2011| 9 Comments »
Most of you know that my mom had a heart attack and has been in the hospital. I haven’t written anything in about two weeks. And now I’m so busy at my full time job, I have been bringing work home with me. Spring is never a good time to try to do anything but my job. 😦
Anyway, I’m setting new goals. For this round, my goal is to not beat myself up over what I haven’t gotten done. For round two, one of my goals is to finish round one’s project if I didn’t get finished, then work on something new. See, I can stay positive about things!
And can I rant a little about why I dislike Blogspot (I’m sorry for those of you who use it, but…)? Anyway, I can deal with having to key in my “open id” and specify that it’s WordPress. I don’t mind keying in the captcha letters (WordPress does this, too), but I run in to constant glitches. One is that sometimes the captcha letters don’t show up until I’ve clicked “post” several times. Then, today, as a ROW80 sponsor, I tried to comment on one of the posts to give encouragement, even though my time is limited right now. And I got this crazy message that my open ID credentials could not be verified! And I had just commented on another post on Blogspot and it worked fine. I tried several times, but to no avail. Now I can’t comment on the blog that I’m supposed to be a sponsor for this week. So, for those of you who use Blogspot…do you have issues like this when you’re commenting on WordPress blogs? Or is it just the other way around?
ROW80 Check In Feb 16
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged check in, ROW80, word count on February 16, 2011| 6 Comments »
Okay, so I took a day off yesterday. But Monday, I was only about a day behind, even though I had been taking multiple days off. Part of the reason for that is that on Monday, I sat down, really got into the story, and wrote somewhere between 1700 and 1800 words! If I could do that several times, I would feel fine about a few days off. And now I’m finally loving my story!
ROW80 Check In Feb. 13
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged check in, goals, ROW80, word count on February 13, 2011| 16 Comments »
My goal is to write an average of 500 words per day. Right now, I’m about 1300 words behind. I’ve had some different things going on that’s hindered me, but I wrote 1193 words last night. So if I keep writing more than my average I’ll eventually catch up. If I stop taking days off….
ROW80 Check Feb. 9
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged check in, ROW80, wii, wii fit, word count on February 9, 2011| 27 Comments »
I’m still about 2000 words behind, but I got in a little more than my 500 last night. I figure if I write a little more than my 500 goal words each day, I’ll eventually catch up. LOL That is if I DON’T skip any more days!
On the bright side, I finally used my birthday and Christmas money and got a Wii and a Wii Fit board. I had a lot of fun playing with it last night before I wrote. I’ve found if I do some exercise before I write, my mind is much more alert. Btw…what does it say about me that I seem to be best at boxing and sword fighting???
Massive Fail
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged fail, ROW80, word count on February 7, 2011| 4 Comments »
I’m now 1667 behind on my word count. Isn’t it kind of ironic that it’s the exact number of words you’re supposed to write per day in NaNoWriMo? Weird, huh?
I only wrote about every other day this past week. But I’m not the kind of person that freaks out over this sort of thing. As long as something is repairable, I’m good. And I know I can make up the word count with no problem. I mean, it kind of makes me mad at myself for letting it happen, but…not that mad. LOL
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