2. Organize my greeting card messages and have 10 submittable messages by the end of the week and a list of five places to submit them. I organized my greeting card messages and picked ten that I think might be submittable. I only decided on one submission location, Papyrus. I need to find four more.
3. Continue to write my current story and draft an outline for my growing up essay for Real Simple Magazine. I stalled out a bit on this one, although I did write a basic outline for the essay which has nearly convinced me that the essay wouldn't be good enough. I need to think on this one a bit.
4. Go through my magazines at home and see which ones accept tips. Come up with two well-written tips. I have two well-written tips, but are not sure where I can send them yet.
5. If Mel's up to it, take out the sewing machine and get started on my baby sling project. Mel wasn't up to it last week and then, when we were both available to work on the project, the rings we need had not arrived yet. Instead, I made the strawberry shortcake cookies I'd been wanting to make forever and they were delicious, but best eaten same day. I also worked on my two children's stories, Monster Island and I Can Taste the Wind. The book Writing Mama has been great so far, although I'm spending too much time thinking and reading and not enough time actually writing anything much. I'm feeling a little down on myself the last two days ever since my book submission was returned to me. It felt like they'd rather pay than have to show my book and that feels terrible. Then I went to my childhood friend, Kristin's, wedding and was talking about bookbinding and book arts and the people at my table couldn't believe I did such a thing and thought it was amazing to even try. I need to remind myself that it means more to work and try and learn than it does to actually have some book sitting in a gallery. I'll try and remember.
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