Happy Labor Day to my US readers...I hope you’re enjoying the long holiday weekend (I know I am)!

Short & sweet (more or less) this week, due to the holiday and my own desire to get caught up on some other things (gonna clean out my closets today...):

Rattles Flash Fiction is now accepting submissions – so head on over that way if you’re interested in writing a short story to submit to the monthly anthology, mosey on over there to get the prompt/image.

Routinely Yours is up and running as well – join me there for a crash course in making your routines and organization work for your individual needs.

This Week on The Variety Pages

Monday: Weekly News, Goals, & Archives 9/6/11
Wednesday: Writing Notes – Trying New Things
Friday: Ch. 17 of Falling in Public
Sunday: Code Name: Succulent – Balancing Work & Play

Elsewhere

Tuesday: Chapter 17 of The Minister’s Maid at Fantasy Ranch Novels
Tuesday: New design at NailArt Tuesday
Tuesday: Tea post at Tea onTap
Thursday: Revisiting the Business Plan at Beyond the Words
Saturday: Routine Manipulation at Routinely Yours

If you missed a post last week and want to catch up, here’s the link list. Note that this includes *all* of my posts, including for my pen name genres and non-writing blogs, so click at your own risk.

Posts for August 29 – September 4

Fiction
Chapter 16 of The Minister's Maid (Romantic Suspense, FantasyRanchNovels.com)
Chapter 16 of Falling in Public(Romantic Suspense, The Variety Pages)
Chapter 13 of The PileDriver (TrinityMarlow.com – Erotica, Adults only, NSFW)
Chapter 57 of Angel Eyes (AlexWesthaven.com, Thriller)

Writing/Reading/Publishing

Writing Notes: Working in the Dark (The Variety Pages)

Personal/Hobbies

Code Name: Succulent – But How Are Your Plants? (The Variety Pages)
Jammin’ Iris Dust (Nail Art Tuesday)
Know Thyself: Identify Your Routines (Routinely Yours)

Goal Reports

Last week started out productive, but when I got to the end, I hadn’t accomplished nearly as much as I’d wanted to. Part of this I’ll blame on The Closer – we got seasons 1-5 for Christmas last year, and have been trying to finish them all before our normal shows come back for the fall season in two weeks. We’re half-way through the 5^th season...so if we can finish this week, I’ll probably be a lot more productive watching TV with commercial breaks again.  

Next week (Sept. 12 – 16), I’ll be on vacation from the day job. That will be very helpful in terms of catching up...

Goals for the Week

Writing

• 5 serial chapters (finish the short story in progress?)

• Start my flash fiction for Rattles

Business

• Email catch-up

• Submit TBW for review

• Catch up bookkeeping (this really is going to happen one of these days...)

Personal

• Clean out closets and donate all extra clothing to Goodwill (today)

• Get the new morning routine hashed out

• Workout three times

• Root canal on Weds (fun, eh?)

A relatively small list this week, but that’s okay – it’s a short week. Here’s to long holiday weekends!

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