Today marks the first day of the 2nd Quarter for
Round of Words in 80 Days or ROW80 for short. The first day of making new goals
and making new accomplishments.
ROW80 is a challenge for writers that gets we have a life
and can’t always write two or three thousand words in a day. With this
challenge writers set goals they want to accomplish in an 80 day time period.
Those goals can be anything, even not writing related. The
best part about ROW80 is the wonderful group of folks that support each other
through the quarter. It makes a big difference sometimes when you share a
weekly update with a struggle and someone comments hey, I’m going through that
too, we can conquer it!
That support can help charge a writer’s waning batteries so
they can find the energy to fill those empty pages with, a novel, blogs,
articles, and more. Sometimes we don’t reach our weekly goals and that energy
fails too.
We have to remember that goals aren’t set in stone. They can
change as our life gets crazy with activity or we realize that maybe that goal
isn’t what we needed it to be. Never be afraid to simplify or break down a goal
into something more manageable.
There will be times that even the simplest goal just doesn’t
happen for us. That’s okay too. We have to have failures to recognize the
successes. We also need to remember we’re not Super Scribe.
Being ambitious with goals can be a good thing. Elvis
Presley said Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. Ambitious goals can be
exciting and make us driven to succeed. Yet we should be cautious, it’s very
easy in our excitement to take on too much or push too hard to get the results we
want so badly.
When Super Scribe gets hit by Kryptonite we just have to
take a breath, step back, and re-evaluate those goals to see what needs tweaked
before we leap to next chapter and type faster than a flying bullet.
That brings me to my goals for the second ROW80 quarter
- Finish Novel
- Start Editing Novel
- Get on a better schedule
4. Get rid of at least two boxes of
clutter/junk a week.
Goals for this week
- Work on scheduling things better
- Write at least 3,000 words.
- Get rid of two boxes of clutter/junk
Now for something fun announcing some upcoming author events
that I’ll be attending with my fellow JLB Creatives Publishing team members as
well as awesome authors. Janet Beasley and Jane E Lane .
BOOK SIGNING WITH SYDNEY AND FRIENDS
May 11th 10 am - 2pm
Sydney and her
friends, "JLBCreatives" will be signing copies of their best selling
books. After a day of shopping at the Clermont Farmers Market, head on down to
the Community Center and say hi to "Sydney" and all her friends. A
reading station will be set up for the kiddies to sit and read to Sydney .
We will be selling T-Shirts and raffle tickets to benefit our reading programs.
Stay up to date by following the event on Facebook! HERE
SCOTT'S ZELLWOOD SWEET CORN JAMBOREE
May 17th -18th
Saturday 10am-5pm
Sunday 11am-5pm
Long & Scott Farms 26216 CR 448-A, Mt.
Dora , FL
Elise will be there with the JLB Creatives Publishing team
exhibiting at the festival. Stop by, say hello and don't forget to pick up some
great new books to read while you munch your delicious Zellwood Sweet Corn!
For more info about the event go to Long & Scott Farms
See what I mean by needing to schedule stuff better? I have a
slew of JLB work stuff and writing stuff and … well you get the picture lol. If
you’re local I hope you can stop by at one of our events and say hi! Well, that’s
my Super Scribe plan for the quarter what’s yours?
*puts on cape and mask then grabs her mighty pen…. Time to
fill some of those empty pages.
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