It was an extremely lazy week last week. Okay, maybe not 'extremely'... but lazy nonetheless.
I only wrote 840 words. Then I hit a 'I have no idea where to go from here' spot and fell apart.
I did do some marketing. DE was free and I did my marketing version of swimming with both hands tied behind my back. Oddly, the second day, downloads took off and I moved 189 copies that day. Not sure what happened there, but I'm okay with it. I also got a couple of really nice reviews for DE recently and one of the reviewers bought FG, too. So yay. Not sure what I'll be doing this week. Maybe nothing. Tune in tomorrow.
Reading... I finished another story in the big book of Hercule Poirot mysteries. I also DNF'd some books. I'll try to remember to post about all that next Saturday.
In baking news, I made a yellow layer cake from scratch. It turned out pretty tasty, if a little dense. I frosted it in vanilla buttercream and slathered strawberry jam in the middle. I'd do it again, but cake mixes really are easier, cheaper, etc. I also did what I'm calling 'open-face pizza subs' and those are yummy. Yesterday, I made pulled pork. I had mine on toast with cheese. Hubs did his over mashed potatoes. Livin' good in the rural 'hood, and all that.
On the activity front, I only walked once this week. I also did some cleaning and gardening. Weight: 171.8 :shrug:
Ah, the gardening... My first tiny tomato made an appearance, followed by a second. #1 is about kumquat size now and #2 is a little bigger than a pea. A couple of the plants have several flowers and the other plants look like they're trying to make flowers, and flowers lead to fruits, so yay. I also repotted all my little pepper plants. I planted 18. An hour later, it rained torrentially, and one got smooshed, so 17 plants. I know it's late to get plants like that going, but I'm still hopeful I'll get at least a few peppers before it gets too cold.
Other than that, it's been too hot to be really motivated to do anything physical. Mentally? Well... Okay, fine... I've been letting myself get sucked into the Roku vortex. So many good things to watch... :drools: I'm catching old movies I haven't seen or haven't seen in decades, awesome new-to-me mystery/crime shows, fun home and cooking shows... Yesterday, I found Dragonslayer (1981) and saved it to watch later. I saw that movie in the theater when I was a kid and haven't seen it since. I hope it's still awesome.
What's been on your agenda lately?
Isn't it amazing how the heat and humidity just sucks the life out of everything?
ReplyDeleteIf you need some brainstorming/what if? time, you know where to find me.
I only got about 1000 words written. I really gotta do better. I've only sold 3 books this month on the 'Zon. I'm hoping I'll have some sales at Smashwords.
In about 10 minutes, I'm going to get off the internet and do a 1K1HR sprint. If I could do 3 of those today, maybe I'd get off high center on the dang WIP. I keep doing awesome (if I say so myself) snippets but their all for later in the book. I gotta get through the dull, set-up parts. I may call upon your good graces to do a quick read of the first several chapter to make sure they make sense. I'm not sure they do and that's part of my stalemate.
It's hot. I don't go outside unless I have to.
I finished off the UF series of 4 books. It was pretty good. I'd read more about those characters if she wrote them.
Not much else to report. Later, tater.