Procrastination methods, as well as complaints about how I’ve been procrastinating. Read at your own risk.
I’m beating my head against another story. It just. does not. want to. GO. Part of the problem is that I didn’t have quite enough in the story to make me eager to write it. I mean, I started out wanting to, but then there was EFFORT, and there was RESEARCH (and not the fun […]
Lost in Translation: Momentum Read More »
So I’ve been awfully tired lately. Since moving, we’ve been settling in, working late, having an awful lot of appointments…and so on and so forth. To illustrate how tired I’ve been–last week the kid went to respite. Dropped her off Friday afternoon, didn’t have to pick her up till Sunday afternoon. I had a million
So way back in 2011, I posted my manifesto. I put it in a document, picked out fonts I liked, and posted it around my house on purple paper. As with many things we see every day, eventually I barely noticed it. However, Erin Zarro is doing a Year of No Fear, and I want
The idea, as well as the name for it, started here. It hardly needs saying that Neil Gaiman is a genius. “Shelfie” is a marvelous and meaningful word. Here is a shelfie of the built-in bookcase in my living room, along with my share of the not built-in bookcase in the living room, followed by the
Introducing the Shelfie Challenge Read More »
Do you have that extra piece of furniture in your room? You know the one. In most of my bedrooms it’s been a chair. Once it was a desk, and another time just the top of my dresser, but it’s always there. In this bedroom, it’s my bed. Under that picture is the end of
A Growing Pile of Do-It-Later Read More »
So life goes on. A bit of the sparkle is gone, but so is a lot of stress. I have a ton of things to do still, but I no longer need to stress about putting NaNo aside to do them–or about putting off more legitimate needs in order to self-indulgently NaNo. I actually read
That’s what happens when you don’t write enough due to various THINGS but you’re determined to win NaNo. You have a ten-thousand-word day. And then, if you really want to win and you’re really behind, you write more. And then you do it for two more days. I still need 16k, and it’s nearly ten