JHS for October 2008

And I get to start the October thread, too? Hmmm.... Someone must've thought I'm reliable or something.

Can you believe it's October already? The year is just FLYING by!

I'm going to try month mapping as I understand it from Jenn Hollowell's blog post a couple days ago (yesterday?) and see how it goes. I'll find a link for you later.

Goals for October:

• Attend Ozark Creative Writers' conference & make some good contacts next week.
• Query a minimum of $80/day.
• Blog 3x weekly on Creatif, Confessions of a Fat Chick, and The Idea Pocket.
• Post daily tips on the Creative Tips on Twitter (feel free to follow that and my main one if you don't already & spread the word if you do and like it ).
• Finish Navajo Rose (so close!!) and polish the first 3 chapters, synopsis, & query letter before the conference.
• Submit/query a minimum of four novel submissions.
• Apply to jobs/gigs on Freelance Writing Jobs that interest me.
• Work on the Confessions of a Fat Chick book and start shopping the proposal.
• Write new Hub Pages articles (one of my Hubs was listed in Hot Hubs last week!).
• Add an article a week to the BeadedJen site on PNN.
• Work on editing Kiernan's Curse (again).

I think that's everything for me. What about you?

Oh, and on the FWJ note (yep, definitely stalling here)...Earlier I sent a response to an ad on Craigslist and got the fastest rejection on record for that. 10 minutes. lol

Good goals, guys.

Thanks for joining the fun, Arisa. It's great to have you here.

For our essayists, have you seen the new WritersWeekly? There's a market for essays about when you were 13. (http://www.writersweekly.com/markets_and_jobs/004953_10012008.html)

Dawn, I honestly didn't realize that list was that long until I wrote it all out. I forgot to put that I plan to do 2 Hub Pages articles a week. I know I put HP articles on there, but I didn't quantify it.

There's also a goal I completely forgot about for September, so that one gets added on too.

One of those goals on the list might get done tonight. Yikes! And two of them will be fully accomplished by next Sunday (Oct. 12).

I need to log off here and get back to Navajo Rose. I'm on the last chapter.

Cool beans, Ink!

Mysti, I'll check the blog later today. Still have work to do. *s*

I already have a goals update. lol

• Attend Ozark Creative Writers' conference & make some good contacts next week.
• Query a minimum of $80/day.
  -Oops! Didn't do this yesterday. After I got over the I-don't-want-it-to-end-itis, I was too focused on finishing Navajo Rose.
• Blog 3x weekly on Creatif, Confessions of a Fat Chick, and The Idea Pocket.
  -"It's Done" post on Creatif rounds out the week as the third post, but there will likely be at least one more.
• Post daily tips on the Creative Tips on Twitter (feel free to follow that and my main one if you don't already & spread the word if you do and like it ).
  -Posted about informal meetings with colleagues yesterday and enjoying the seasons today.
• Finish Navajo Rose (so close!!) and polish the first 3 chapters, synopsis, & query letter before the conference.
  -I finished Navajo Rose around 10:30-10:45 last night.
• Submit/query a minimum of four novel submissions.
• Apply to jobs/gigs on Freelance Writing Jobs that interest me.
  -Applied to 2 yesterday. I got the fastest rejection on record for one and a request for writing samples on the other.
• Work on the Confessions of a Fat Chick book and start shopping the proposal.
• Write 2 new Hub Pages articles a week (one of my Hubs was listed in Hot Hubs last week!).
• Add an article a week to the BeadedJen site on PNN.
• Work on editing Kiernan's Curse (again).
• Work on workshop proposal for RWA next year. (I forgot about this one for September so it got moved up.)

I'm not going to go through and put all the links back in. lol

It's an odd feeling (for me) to finish a large project draft. I feel kind of lost and don't know what to do with myself. lol. Fortunately, there's more to do to get the submission package in shape for the conference, so I'm not done with it for my time here and I'm not done with it-done with it by any means anyway. *s*

Thanks, guys.

Raven, a little suggestion?

Get rid of the last goal place-holder with question marks. When you're having problems with motivation, you don't need added stress of the "What else do I do??" variety.

I made changes to my synopsis today. It needed tweaks and additions for new storyline stuff, but it didn't need a complete overhaul like I thought it would. The first three chapters are still in pretty good shape. I entered them in a contest back in February and honestly haven't done much, if anything, to that part of the book.

I've mapped out some Hub Pages articles and blog posts. I signed up on oDesk, took and passed their Readiness and English sentence structure tests, and applied for a job. There's still another test required for the area I'm going for, but I'm going to do that tomorrow (I think) because I gave myself quite a headache from my late-night writing session (it's hard for me to go to sleep after writing late at night - if I'd stayed up another hour, it probably would've been OK), so I took some Ibuprofen and laid down for a nap around 3:00. (Headache's still there, but much better.)

I met and significantly overshot my $80/day goal with three queries.

Skyraven said:

Jen - You are the Queen of the world for finishing Navajo Rose!

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Aw, shucks.

Thanks.

I almost have my submission package for next week done. I should get that finished up tomorrow.

As for me, I want to write a letter to the editor/pitch in response to an article I read about autism. It was an article that I found to be misleading to parents and could cause alot of confusion. As a therapist, I can't let it go. As a parent, I think it's a terrifying thing to have something explained incorrectly that would scare you.

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Three words.

Go for it.

As a mom, you're in a good position to write it. As a therapist, you're in an excellent position to write it.