So there I was, minding my own writing last week when my lovely cover artist – who you may know is also a writer – started talking about audio books and how she’d like to do that with her book. The conversation wound around to podcasts (which I considered doing and may still experiment with), and then I had to share the link to Xtranormal with her, because it seemed only fair since we were talking about multi-media. Xtranormal, for those who don’t want to click through, is a do-it-yourself animated video studio where you can type in text, tell your characters what to do, and in a matter of 20 minutes or so you can have a very simple video to share with friends. If you need a procrastination tool, head over to the web site and play awhile.

Having a bunch of stuff to procrastinate on this weekend, I decided to download the desktop program to my computer and play awhile. The result is a new weekly feature that will post first on the Brazen Snake Books blog, and again on this weekly news post for those who are interested in what’s happening in my WIPs, as well as general news items from BSB. It’s pretty fun, I think, and I hope you’ll watch if you have the capability on your machine. The videos are also on YouTube.

I’m working on a video to accompany the Weds. Writing Notes blog post – we’ll see how that goes. And if all goes well, I’ll have something fun to post on Saturday too. Stay tuned...

This week’s W.I.P. Newscast

This week at The Variety Pages

Tuesday: Guest post by Author Liz Borino’s characters

Wednesday: Writing Notes – Making a Scene

Friday: Ch. 2 of Falling in Public

Saturday: ???

Elsewhere

Tuesday at FantasyRanchNovels.com - Ch. 2 of The Minister’s Maid

Wednesday I’ll be guest posting at #Amwriting.org blog on organization for busy writers.

Thursday at Beyond the Words I’ll be posting on Creative Promotions (naturally)

Goal Reports

I didn’t do too badly last week, considering my day job was insanely busy and draining, which left me less time/energy to work on writing stuff. All the serial chapters went up on time, I got a little more done on my thriller short, and I largely ignored the promo I was supposed to be doing in favor of...ahem...more shiny things. Most nights I was in bed by 1:30am, though I did miss a few, and I still haven’t gotten back to my Goodreads account (good grief!).

This week should be far more calm, so I’m hoping to get a lot done. And a three-day weekend at the end – woohoo!

Goals for the Week

Writing

• 5 serial scenes

• 2k on IYD (thriller short)

• “Sweet” short story outline/script 

Business

• Formatting samples (must do!)

• W.I.P. Newscast

• Promo items

• Daily promo

Personal

• Keep laundry caught up

• Catch up Goodreads records

• Clean up in the yard if it’s nice next weekend

• Start working on our bathroom project next weekend (fix leak, paint cabinets)

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And that’s it – anything else is extra. So...how are things shaping up for you this week? Anything fun planned for the long weekend?

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