It just occurred to me that 6/6/66 is going to be a very interesting day, psychologically speaking. If I live to be 91 years old, I’ll be able to experience it first-hand. Perhaps I should write a story set on that day. If I make it that long, I could see if the fantasy lives up to the reality. By then, maybe 90 will be the new 50, right?

But I digress...

If you missed it, last week Heidi finished up the cover for the new blog serial draft, Falling in Public. It’s just absolutely perfect, and really captures the “Hollywood” vibe that I want for this novel. Fabulous work as usual from My Creative Pursuits!

I’ve been thinking about podcasting lately. I started to type out my thoughts on it here, and realized it would make this post several hundred words longer than it needed to be. So stop in tomorrow for my podcast ruminations (in text form, which is rather ironic, I think), and to share your thoughts on the medium as a whole.

This Week on The Variety Pages

Tuesday: To Speak or Not to Speak - The Podcast Question

Wednesday: Writing Notes – From Image to Story

Friday: Ch. 4 of Falling in Public

Elsewhere

Tuesday: Chapter 4 of The Minister’s Maid at FantasyRanchNovels.com

Thursday: On Personal Limitations at Beyond the Words

Saturday: Saturday Evening Soap (video) at Snake Bites

Sunday: W.I.P. News at Snake Bites

Here’s this week’s W.I.P. News cast if you missed it on the other blog:

Goal Reports

I’m not ashamed to admit I pretty much sucked in terms of getting my goals done last week. I kept up with the serial novels and that’s really about it. I’m really hoping to cross off the bulk of my business goals this week, because it’s so much easier to just keep up than to catch up. I do think I’ve hit a personal limitation (see next Thursday’s post at BTW) with regards to writing, which is annoying. But things are still moving forward, even though “turtle” seems to be my speed setting at the moment.

Goals for the Week

Writing

• 5 serial scenes, plus reevaluate the TMM scene for this week.

• 2k on my thriller short

• Finish the scripts for Office Gossip

• Clean up a few old flash fiction stories I have, and post them for free at the Brazen Snake site

Business

• Finish samples for author services

• Add Tempest trailer to web sites

• Buy a new block of ISBN numbers

• Finish up promo items for Author Services

• Update profile at Independent Author Network

• Daily promo tweets

• Catch up bookkeeping

• Finish production on Office Gossip

• Fill out an interview I was sent last week

• Send out interview questions to an author I’ll feature next week

Personal

• 3 workouts

• Laundry. Laundry. Laundry.

• Pull more weeds (ugh!)

• Quit working by 12:30am to read. (I’m really going to get serious about this one. I need more sleep, and knocking off work by 12:30 I could be sleeping around 1a.m. If I know it’s a hard and fast rule, I’ll be more diligent in getting stuff done earlier.)

That’s it for me this week. I’m taking Friday off from the day job (a long story involving the gas company, our meter, and all the recent flooding around here), so that will give me a good chunk of day time to catch up on business-type stuff.

What’s on your plate this week? Writing/business/personal – do tell me I’m not the only one wading through a mile-long list at the moment...

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