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I’m terrible at titles, LOL. It’s been a busy week of football, fundraising, and continued single mum land.
My tackle football guy had his first game yesterday. Our team won, yay team! We’re all a wee bit crispy as a result. Gorgeous weekend with temps in the mid to high 7o’s and low 80’s but with a nice breeze so as to hide the effects of the sun until the damage is done. Definitely time to break out the sunblock!
Yearly Goals
- I have once again registered on Goodreads to read 100 books. However, this may change as I plan to put writing before reading this year. – On Target.
- Lose 50 pounds. I slacked off the last part of 2013, ’nuff said. – Nothing to report.
Quarterly (AKA ROW80) Goals
- Draft the Steampunk story I attempted for NaNo 2013. Oh, and figure out a title. – This isn’t happening this Round. I haven’t been able to stay in the zone long enough to do justice to this story, even allowing for a crappy first draft. Nor have I been able to brainstorm any titles yet.
- Read Who Are You in the Tarot?
by Mary K. Greer and do the applicable exercises. – Read two chapters, no exercises yet.
Monthly Goals
- Read, at least, one paper book. With the ease of carrying my eReaders around my poor paper books have been neglected. – Goal attained for January. Read Desire’s Edge
by Eden Bradley writing as Eve Berlin. Goal attained for February. Read A Knight in Shining Armor
by Jude Deveraux. Goal attained for March. Read Highlander’s Curse
(part of the Daughters of the Glen series) by Melissa Mayhue.
- At least, one date night with That Man. – Goal attained for January. Goal attained for February.
Weekly Goals:
- Spend a minimum of 3 hours per week on writing. – Not attained.
- Maintain 3 blog posts per week. – Not attained.
- Visit and comment on at least 12 blogs per week, 3 of which HAVE to be ROW80 blogs. – Target attained (19/6 ROW blogs).
- Connect on Facebook and Twitter with, at least, one non-blog post or share per week. – Not attained.
- Maintain books read on Goodreads. – Target attained.
- Exercise 3 times per week. – Not attained.
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Raelyn Barclay 
Titles are tough, especially blog post titles. I know most of mine are dry and boring! At least with a novel, I can pick *something* so I can work on it, then change it when I come up with something better (and I always eventually do).
Yeah, blog titles are tough. Glad I’m not alone Jennette 🙂
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Titles are the bane of my existence. Especially blog titles. You had a pretty good week.
It makes me so happy to know I’m not alone John.
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I’m glad you got in the fundraising part. I’m not much into that when I probably should be *hides face of shame*
You’ve been a very busy mum so keep at attaining the goals you can and as time allows – beyond the most important things like family and work – you can gain more ground. As an all-the-time-single-mum….I hear ya 🙂
I’m not as good at the fundraising as I’d like to be either. This was a week of it though between school and football. As to the single mum thing…I bow to you Angela! Seriously, I have nothing but the utmost respect for all you do.
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I have a love/hate relationship with titles. Sometimes, I have such a hard time figuring out a title for a book that I don’t have one until the last minute. Then there have been a couple of books where the title came to me before I started writing the story.
As far as blog titles go…I usually just pick whatever the post is about and make a title from that. It doesn’t have to be catchy, it should just let people kind of know what it’s about, I think. 🙂
Sadly, I know blog titles need to grab people’s attention, especially if they are scrolling through a reader. So with that in mind blog titles are the bane of my existence, LOL.
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I think I’m decent at coming up with titles for my stories, but I haven’t mastered the art of the blog-post title yet. I’m so used to coming up with catchy, clever titles, then I wonder if I should make my blog titles more search-engine friendly and before you know it, my brain feels ready to explode.
Congrats to your son on winning his first football game! I bet he was excited. 🙂
Oy, don’t get me started on the search-engine aspect of titles. :hangs head:
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Yay, team! Boo, sunburn.
Love the way you set up your goals. Very cool! The red and green font work nicely as well.
Love your reading goals. I don’t read that fast . . . or that faithfully. (Mind you, I edit other people’s manuscripts, so that’s sorta kinda like reading books. :D)
All the best for the rest of Round 1. See ya next time.
Oh, I count the betas I do, they just don’t show up on Goodreads 🙂
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