2013

Posted on February 13, 2013 by mrsbongle

Hooray! The brilliant news is that I have self-published another book on Amazon, bringing my grand total of works available to three! My lovely shining new book on numerology is for sale at the extremely reasonable price of 99 cents or 77 pence. It’s only a short book which is why I’m selling it at such a good price. This is a fabulous wonderful momentous book and I should know because I wrote it! (LOL).

Have taken a short break from writing so since finishing “Numerology for Daily Life” I haven’t written anything for a few days. Am finally getting back into the reading again which is good. Have renewed my library books and been for a dentist appointment. Not a lot else going on in my life.

Oh the scaffolding has been put up and the builders are coming back next week to start repairing our roof.

Am I am still spending too much time on Facebook but that seems to be the way it is right now.

ROW80 Check-In 10/02/2013

Posted on February 10, 2013 by mrsbongle

Well back to the grindstone! Have started typing up the Christopher Lee interview for the book that lovely hubby and I are doing together. Have started (yesterday) on my Basics of Astrology book. So the writing part of my goals is going pretty well. I’m aiming for consistency of effort rather than huge word counts and hours at the keyboard. As long as I’m working towards my goals every day then it doesn’t matter too much how many (or how few) hours/words I do.

Have put my new numerology book on Amazon’s KDP. So the putting my work out there goal is doing well. Had a few problems with the cover which involved a great deal of swearing and intervention from lovely hubby but I think (!) its all fixed now. The book isn’t live yet and I won’t really be able to tell how it’s worked until it is.

The reading is progressing very slowly because I keep buying more books or borrowing more from the library which means although I’m reaing all the time my ‘to be read’ pile isn’t getting any smaller.

Still spending too much time on Facebook so no change there.

ROW80 Check-In 06/02/2013

Posted on February 6, 2013 by mrsbongle

The good news is that I have finished my numerology book! Well I still have the proof reading and final spell check/edit to do but apart from that it’s finished. I am very pleased that I’ve done a book in just over a month. Have to decide what to do next but I’ll do that either tomorrow or the day after.

I have been reading one of the books in my ‘to be read’ pile so that’s a start.

Will be putting my numerology book out into the world when it’s all polished and shiny!

Spent less time on Facebook today; mainly because we were out most of the day.

ROW80 Check-In 03/02/2013

Posted on February 3, 2013 by mrsbongle

Had a good week! All my original goals are to be found here. http://mrsbongle.com/2013/01/06/row80-check-in-06012013/

Firstly I have almost finsihed my numerology book. I wrote twelve thousand words of it in January which I’m pretty pleased with. Then I finished (successfully) the Ultimate Blogger Challenge. I posted a new blog post every single day in January so I’m pleased I managed to do that. I will be blogging less because a) blogging every day is a bit of a bind b) I was running out of things to say and c) I have other writing projects that are more important to me.

The reading is still a bit slower than I’d like but its coming along so I should probably stop fussing over it.

As far as putting my work out into the world goes, well I haven’t specifically put any more work out but I’m always moaning about how crap I am at marketing and how much I hate it. Well lovely hubby googled my name and between us we found four and a half pages of stuff about me! I was gobsmacked! There’s my blog, my Facebook page, some reviews I’ve done on Good Reads, blog posts I’ve done for other people; there’s just loads of it! I’m always saying that I can’t build an author platform and I can’t manage to make myself a brand and I seem to have done it without even knowing I’d done it!

But I’m still spending too much time on Facebook.

ROW80 Check-In 30/01/2013

Posted on January 30, 2013 by mrsbongle

Been a slow week this week. Have made a bit of progress on my goals but not much. For the link to my original goals, see here http://mrsbongle.com/2013/01/06/row80-check-in-06012013/

Done a few more pages on my numerology book. Haven’t been reading most of my library books and have realised that I don’t like at least two of them so will probably be taking them back unread. I use the library as a testing ground for books and authors I don’t normally read and sometimes I find great new things and sometimes I don’t.

Haven’t put any new work out and am still spending too much time on Facebook.

Got some very sad news from my mother today. She e-mailed me to say that her cat Littley had to be put down. The poor thing had cancer, she had two huge tumours, one in her throat and one in her tummy. She will be much missed.

Rose by Martin Cruz Smith

Posted on January 21, 2013 by mrsbongle

This is a great book. I finished it a few days ago and I really enjoyed reading it. The characters are very well-developed and the plot is really well done. There is mystery and romance and a fair bit of sex but the sex scenes are well written and not silly.

But the best thing about this book (in my opinion) is the way the author writes about the setting. I never thought that I would think of Wigan as evocative and exciting but here it is all of that and more. The place becomes almost the dominant character of the book.

This book was recommended to me in a instruction book about creative writing (I forget which one now) as one of the best examples of really good use of setting and it does not disappoint. I thoroughly recommend this book!

ROW80 Check-In 20/01/2013

Posted on January 20, 2013 by mrsbongle

Making moderate progress which is good. Here is the link to my post about my goals – http://mrsbongle.com/2013/01/06/row80-check-in-06012013/

The writing is coming along nice and steady – not too fast but not too slow either. I have finished over half of chapter four of my numerology book; this chapter is quite long because I have to do all the correspondences. But I have written words for this book every day this year so far; obviously I have done more on some days than others but that’s always going to be the case. And I have blogged every day of this year so far as well.

I have finished one of the books I’ve been meaning to read; it was called Rose by Martin Cruz Smith and it was really excellent! I will do a review of it some time.

No more progress on putting my work out there although I did discover a new competition that I might enter if I can write a poem I consider good enough. You have to write a poem on the theme of ‘Homeland’ or ‘Motherland’, the poems must be between twenty and sixty lines. Link is here. http://www.fantasticbookspublishing.com/2013/01/17/international-poetry-competition-2013-open-for-entries/

Still spending too much time on Facebook but I do enjoy it!

ROW80 Check-In 16/01/2013

Posted on January 16, 2013 by mrsbongle

Well it’s been quite a good week but not the best ever. Have still been making progress on my goals. (For a list of my original goals see this post – http://mrsbongle.com/2013/01/06/row80-check-in-06012013/ )

I have written another chapter of my numerology book and am still on course for finishing at the end of January. I will be very thrilled if I do that because I don’t actually have to finish until the end of March but I have no problem with being ahead of my goals!

Another epic fail on the reading because I bought two more new books today! In my defence I did still have some book tokens I got for Christmas to use up and it would have been a crime to waste them! I have read one library book, am about halfway through three more and haven’t even started on the fourth.

Haven’t really taken any more steps to getting my work out into the light of day. But on that note, I had an e-mail this morning from the Authonomy team about a new challenge they’re running. It’s about trying to write a novel, or more accurately, a novella, in just thirty hours! Sounds a bit extreme! Here is the link if you fancy trying it. http://blog.authonomy.com/2013/01/could-you-write-novel-in-just-30-hours.html

And finally I’ve been spending just as much time of Facebook as I normally do, if not maybe a little bit more so that’s a fail as well! Oh dear. Never mind, there’s always next week. How’s everyone else getting on?

ROW80 Check-In 13/01/2013

Posted on January 13, 2013 by mrsbongle

Well so far so good, sort of! For a list of my original goals read here. http://mrsbongle.com/2013/01/06/row80-check-in-06012013/

Progress Report.

1. I have been getting on very well with my numerology book. It’s turning out to be longer than I thought but I’m on course for finishing at the end of January.

2. Epic fail. Have not only been buying more books but went to the library and got a load out so now I have to read them before they become overdue. The ‘To Be Read Pile’ just keeps growing!

3. My sister is reading Emily Swann and she says she’s about two-thirds of the way through and she seems to be enjoying it. She’s a historian and so far she’s only spotted one anachronism.

4. Have cut down my Facebook time a bit but probably not as much as I should have. Still waste lots of time every day sharing photos of cats!

ROW80 Check-In 09/01/2013

Posted on January 9, 2013 by mrsbongle

Right, first things first, Happy Birthday Jimmy Page!

Now on with the ROW check-in.

Have been still writing by numerology book and have almost finished the chapter of destiny numbers; that should be done in two days.

The reading is still moving forward, as usual I’m reading four books at the moment but I’m getting through all four so that’s good.

The getting my writing out there goal has had limited progress but I’m trying to organise more guest posts on other people’s blogs; have another possible one in the pipeline so that’s good.

Spending too much time on Facebook; err, well maybe a little bit less but not a huge amount. Oh dear! Still there’s always hope I’ll do better for the next check-in.

Well, that’s my check-in. How did it go for you gujys?

mrsbongle

An odd mixture of writing, book loving, history and the occult.

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