Sometimes you just need to take it easy and give yourself a break. I gave myself an easier list this week, and it shows: I got everything done!
After completing that brutal revision, I needed that easy week. This coming week may be easy or not-so-much. The list looks long, but most of the items aren’t difficult or time-consuming – it’s a lot of little stuff. I’m participating in my first book signing at a local Barnes & Noble, and want to have a few things to give away or encourage readers to go download my Nook book. As always, I’d like to collect some more blogs so I’m not always spending my Sundays writing them, but that never seems to happen. Maybe this week!
Last week’s results:
- Launch plan and list marketing tasks for Time’s Fugitive
- Read one Golden Heart entry (#4 out of 5)
- Three interval workouts plus two short workouts
- Finish reading and review the ARC I got last week
- Finish web design side job I took on to pay off my publishing company start up costs
- Rework Time’s Fugitive cover – I’m not 100% satisfied with it – YES! It’s in my sidebar now.
- Bonus: Stockpile some blogs, so that I’m not writing them at the last minute
- Design and print bookplates, stand-up placard, and excerpt brochures to hand out at book signing, plus signup sheet for reader newsletter
- Collect and write front/back matter for Time’s Fugitive – Author’s Note, Acknowledgements, etc.
- Investigate starting reader newsletter
- Write product description and determine tags for Time’s Fugitive; put together Book Info cheat sheet
- Review one marketing book (I have four to either read or re-read)
- Read last Golden Heart entry (#5 out of 5)
- Three interval workouts plus two short workouts
- Write one book review
- Bonus: any additional blogs
How did you do this week? If you’re consistently not meeting all your goals, maybe you need to cut yourself some slack. Take an easy week, and jump back in next week. Or it may be that the goals you’re choosing just aren’t reasonable, given the other demands on your time. What do you think?
