{"id":632,"date":"2015-07-27T19:38:05","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T01:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/?p=632"},"modified":"2015-07-27T19:38:05","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T01:38:05","slug":"goals-checking-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/goals-checking-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Goals &#8212; Checking In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Fotolia_46524895_M.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-363\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Fotolia_46524895_M-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"Gorgeous woman in a bra and panties\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Fotolia_46524895_M-300x167.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Fotolia_46524895_M-1024x573.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Fotolia_46524895_M.jpg 1842w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Back in January I wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/goals-for-2015\/\" target=\"_blank\">a blog post listing my goals <\/a>for this year. Since the year is more than halfway done I thought it would be a good time to press pause on all the stuff on my to-do list, take a look at my goals and see how I&#8217;m doing as I progress toward them. I find that if I don&#8217;t do that every now and then it&#8217;s really easy to get off track and spend a lot of time putting out fires\/doing things which do not get me closer to accomplishing what I want to accomplish. I&#8217;m okay with goals changing and evolving over time, but I don&#8217;t want to fail to reach them just because I became distracted \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<h2>My goals for 2015:<\/h2>\n<p><strong>As a writer:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Self-publish all my old \u2018Steffie Sherwood\u2019 stories<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I kept changing my mind about this one. I want to share those stories because I don&#8217;t want them to be &#8216;wasted&#8217; by just sitting on my hard drive but many of them will require a degree of editing I just don&#8217;t have time for. I could put them out as they are, but I don&#8217;t feel like they represent the same quality of fiction I&#8217;m creating now so I&#8217;m hesitant to do that either. My current plan, subject to change of course, is to pick a couple of my favourites, bundle them together and sell them for $0.99. I haven&#8217;t gotten this done yet, but it&#8217;s on my to-do list. So I&#8217;m officially changing this goal to be &#8216;<em>Format and publish a small collection of the best of my Steffie Sherwood stories.<\/em>&#8216; Further, I&#8217;m going to set a goal of having this completed by September 1st.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Have at least one successful \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/sexy-stories-under-glass\/\" target=\"_blank\">Writing Under Glass<\/a>\u2019 event<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A writing under glass event is one where I write as publicly as I can given the circumstances. That may mean taking prompts from my blog readers, daily updates and excerpts&#8211;that sort of thing. I have yet to do this in 2015 so I&#8217;m officially declaring September my month to write under glass. I&#8217;m making it a month long event because I can&#8217;t stop everything else I&#8217;m doing, but I can minimize it so I can dedicate at least three hours a day to working on something &#8216;under glass&#8217;. I&#8217;m not sure yet what that will be. If Twin Magic isn&#8217;t finished by then it might be that&#8211;if it IS finished I&#8217;ll look to my Twitter followers and blog readers for feedback on what should come next.<\/p>\n<p>Aside: All the pictures in this post were prompts from my first, less than successful, writing under glass event \ud83d\ude09<a href=\"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Fotolia_38352056_M.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Fotolia_38352056_M-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"Taut torso and lacy panties\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Fotolia_38352056_M-199x300.jpg 199w, http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Fotolia_38352056_M-681x1024.jpg 681w, http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Fotolia_38352056_M.jpg 1124w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Figure out why my tags and categories on this website have suddenly stopped working*<\/strong> &gt;_&lt;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I got this one done right away. Woohoo! I&#8217;ll take my victories where I can find &#8217;em LOL<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Publish at least one story through a traditional publisher<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My short story, Circles Within Circles, was included in the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0692468714\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0692468714&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=niteblade04-20&amp;linkId=7TRVFRZU7QE64YTX\" target=\"_blank\">Demons, Imps and Incubi<\/a><\/em> anthology published by Red Moon Romance. I&#8217;m super proud of this story and look forward to writing more with these characters. Goal accomplished.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Complete one of my half-finished longer projects (incubus, Twin Magic or 2012\u2019s NaNo novel)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been making steady progress on Twin Magic but just when I thought I could see the ending, the story took a bit of a turn on me and now it&#8217;s going to be a bit longer than I&#8217;d first anticipated. This goal isn&#8217;t accomplished yet, but I am on track.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Begin adapting ### ####### for re-release<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I changed my mind. As much as I like this novel, I don&#8217;t think I love it enough to adapt it for re-release, I&#8217;d rather spend my writing time working on something new. I&#8217;m abandoning this goal.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Build a solid list of people on Twitter who I enjoy following and interacting with.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m still growing that list but there is a solid core of people I follow on Twitter now who I feel are *actually* people (as opposed to bots or &#8220;social media content management&#8221; platform\/groups). I enjoy connecting with them and, since they haven&#8217;t blocked me yet, I am optimistic the feeling is mutual :-p<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Fotolia_48176931_Subscription_Monthly_M.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-352\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Fotolia_48176931_Subscription_Monthly_M-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"Rear View\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Fotolia_48176931_Subscription_Monthly_M-199x300.jpg 199w, http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Fotolia_48176931_Subscription_Monthly_M-682x1024.jpg 682w, http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Fotolia_48176931_Subscription_Monthly_M.jpg 1125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>As an editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Edit at least two titles for Red Moon Romance that are released this year or next<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>This may include the Secret Santa anthology I\u2019m currently working on, but bonus points if they are <em>in addition to<\/em> it \ud83d\ude42<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have edited two titles for Red Moon Romance in addition to the holiday-themed anthology (<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/introducing-alexa-piper\/\" target=\"_blank\">Luminous Dreams<\/a><\/em> and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/introducing-anna-kyle\/\" target=\"_blank\">Skye Falling<\/a><\/em>). Whoot! Goal accomplished. Surpassed, really. I have one other title I&#8217;m in the process of editing for RMR and have a couple manuscripts I&#8217;ve passed on up to the Editor-in-Chief for permission to publish. So I feel like it&#8217;s safe to say my editing goals have been smashed \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Successfully acquire stories to create a strong table of contents for the anthology I proposed to Red Moon Romance (hint: see picture above) and deliver the manuscript on time<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is referring to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/rough-edges\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Rough Edges<\/em><\/a> which is still open to submissions until Friday. So I guess I&#8217;ll be better able to evaluate how successful I was in this regard after that&#8230; still, I feel like I did everything I could to spread the word about this anthology so no matter what happens I deserve at least partial credit for that \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Overall I think I&#8217;m doing pretty freaking well at moving toward my goals. With a due date for the Steffie Sherwood collection and a month of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/sexy-stories-under-glass\/\" target=\"_blank\">Writing Under Glass<\/a> scheduled I&#8217;m confident that I&#8217;ll achieve the other goals I set for myself as well.<\/p>\n<p>Yay!<\/p>\n<p>How about you? How is your year going so far? Do you regularly set goals for yourself? How often? How do you evaluate your progress or success? Lemme know, I&#8217;d love to hear about it \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Fotolia_49063419_Subscription_Monthly_M.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-358 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Fotolia_49063419_Subscription_Monthly_M-294x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sexy bride in panties\" width=\"294\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Fotolia_49063419_Subscription_Monthly_M-294x300.jpg 294w, http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Fotolia_49063419_Subscription_Monthly_M-1004x1024.jpg 1004w, http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Fotolia_49063419_Subscription_Monthly_M.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in January I wrote a blog post listing my goals for this year. Since the year is more than halfway done I thought it would be a good time to press pause on all the stuff on my to-do &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/goals-checking-in\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[149,138,92,117,123],"tags":[110,84,140,118,134,125,150,152,156,151],"class_list":["post-632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goals","category-luminous-dreams","category-red-moon-romance","category-rough-edges","category-skye-falling","tag-demons-imps-and-incubi","tag-goals","tag-luminous-dreams","tag-rough-edges","tag-sale","tag-skye-falling","tag-steffie-sherwood","tag-the-naughty-list","tag-twin-magic","tag-writing-under-glass"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}