Friday, November 30, 2007
Help answer a question?
So I was thinking the other day... (Yes, you can cringe now.) And my thinking led to some wondering... So I figured I'd put this to my 4 or so regular blog readers (bless your hearts for coming back after so many months of boredom and silence), and see what you thought. Just a random, unscientific survey done here for nothing more than satisfying my curiosity and see if I'm actually as ignorant as I think I am.
So, the first question: Are you a writer?
And the second question: Where did you first hear about e-books? (Or have you not heard of them?)
That's all. :)Labels: reading, writing
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Accountability, Day 5
Today is the last day of my week-long experiment to see if I actually get more work done when I stick to a schedule. I think my results so far have made the answer pretty obvious, but I'll still post today's schedule and results, just in case you're not tired of it yet. I'll do a final wrap-up over at the Deadline Divas tomorrow.
7:30 - Get up, get going. Overslept! Mental note: consider setting alarm.
9:00 - Start writing
12:00 - Break for lunch (for the record, had a short break earlier to grab my morning snack, but I did research the whole time I was eating)
1:00 - Back to writing
2:15 - Leg stretch break
2:30 - Writing some more
3:10 - Phone call (Would've let voicemail get it, but it was someone who doesn't usually call, and curiosity won out)
3:25 - Back to writing
4:00 - Stop for the day. Halloween's tonight in my neighborhood, so I need to get ready early.
Total words for the day: 5700, just shy of 23 pages
Total hours spent writing: 5.5
Still keeping my 1,000 words/hour page count. Not bad. I'll have to keep this up.Labels: sorry to bore you to tears, writing
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Monday, October 29, 2007
Accountability, Day 4
Today is the day that I shall call, The Day That Started With A Hangover.
Don't freak out - I wasn't drinking. I just came down with one of these killer headaches yesterday. They've been hitting me off and on the last couple months, and yesterday was my day to deal with them. Sometimes they last a few days, so I was a bit afraid to get out of bed this morning. Once I got up and going, though, things were fine. Must've been too much Mexican food and sunshine yesterday, or something.
So, I started late, but I still feel that I was productive.
8:00 - Roll out of bed, get breakfast, check email & internet, start laundry, call bug guy, do dishes
10:00 - Start work on writing-related tasks. (I swapped a couple chapters with a friend, so I spent an hour looking over her comments and answering questions she had about my comments.)
11:00 - Start writing
12:15 - Break for lunch and chores
1:15 - More writing
4:00 - Stop for the day. Time to prep dinner and finish chores, so I can get to Bunco tonight.
Total writing time today: 4 hours, plus 1 hour for writing-related issues
Total word count: 4,013 words, equal to 16 pages.
At this rate, if I can write 1,000 words an hour, I could finish my manuscript in about 70 hours. Probably couldn't do it in 70 hours straight, though. Even I need to sleep sometimes.
We're in the home stretch, folks! One more day to report daily progress before checking back in with the Deadline Divas. Woo-hoo!Labels: sorry to bore you to tears, writing
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Friday, October 26, 2007
Accountability, Day 3
In today's episode of As the Schedule Turns, Honey deters from the last two days' primary purpose in order to do some edits. Below is the riveting commentary from her day. Below that is the tag she answered from Lucy yesterday, which is infinitely more exciting.
7:15 - Roll out of bed, do morning stuff, plus dishes, and throw in a load of laundry
9:00 - Start editing
10:00 - Break for food
10:15 - Go back to editing
12:15 - Break for more food, also known as the neverending bowl of potato soup. Bring up dry laundry from the laundry room
1:00 - More editing!
3:30 - Finish all editing for the day, write about 25 words, and call it a day.
On the surface, it looks like I spent less time at my desk today, but by my calculations I still spent 5.5 hours on writing today. I edited about 18,000 words of my own WIP, plus critted 3 chapters for somebody else today, so all in all, I think it's still a productive day. Hooray!Labels: sorry to bore you to tears, writing
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Thursday, October 25, 2007
Accountability, Day 2
Another day on a schedule, another good bit of writing done. Hmmmm... I'm seeing a theme here.
7:00 - got up, got breakfast, checked email & internet, made dessert for a dinner out with friends tonight, showered
9:10 - Writing (964 words)
10:10 - STARVING, had cinnamon toast and orange juice. Yummy.
10:30 - Writing (1879 words)
12:00 - Lunch.
1:00 - Writing (2024 words)
2:30 - Short break to check mail and wash an apple
2:45 - Writing (2598 words)
4:15 - Done for the day.
Total words today: 7,465, for a rough total of 30 pages. Woohoo!
Coming later, I'll answer Lucy's tag... But thinking of 8 unique things about me after straining my muse all day might be kinda interesting. :)Labels: sorry to bore you to tears, writing
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Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Accountability, Day One
Over at the Deadline Divas today, I'm talking about time management and my serious lack of discipline with it. So, for the next week, I'm going to try to follow my schedule (weekends excluded, especially since the fam is coming over to visit this weekend), and then see if my dedication to my writing improves this week.
With that in mind, here's what I did today:
7:15 - Got up, got breakfast, checked email
8:10 - Showered, dishes, bit more email
9:00 - Writing (774 words done)
10:00 - Starving, break for food and check email
10:30 - Writing (2,007 words done)
12:20 - Starving again, break for lunch, check email and internet, pet kitties
1:10 - Writing (1,421 words done)
2:30 - Short break, check email
2:45 - Writing with cats in lap (872 words)
3:30 - Short break, snack and email, fail miserably at opening an apple juice bottle
3:45 - Writing (872 words)
4:30 - Brain fried for the day. Reward self by blogging and playing Pirates! until Mr. Honey gets home
All said and done, between the hours of 7:15 AM and 4:30 PM (for a total of 9 hours and 15 minutes between waking and quitting), I spent 5 hours, 40 minutes writing, for a total of 5,946 words, which is the equivalent of almost 24 pages. That's more than I've written the last two weeks combined. I think this schedule thing may be good for me. (I'm not yet ready to add up how many hours I spent checking my email.)Labels: sorry to bore you to tears, writing
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Thursday, June 14, 2007
Done!
   | 109,748 / 109,748
(100.0%) | |
Still lots of edits to do, since it's a bit long, but I'm rewarding myself with dinner and the privilege of starting on my next story before I tackle the clean-up. I need to get my objectivity.
I also need to figure out why blogger won't let me update my sidebar without throwing everything out of whack. Argh.
Happy Weekend! (Er, almost weekend.)Labels: writing
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That sound...
That sound you hear in the otherwise deafening silence of this blog is the sound of my fingers madly typing away. The smell is that of an overheated keyboard, with a little side odor of overactive imagination burning a hole in my head.
And the lack of an update on that word count over there is due to sheer laziness. I'll update it when I finish the book. Later today.
Gotta run! There's more words to be put on paper... But while I'm off writing, check out this blog post from Therese Walsh over at Writer Unboxed. Timely advice, let me tell you!Labels: writing
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Wednesday, June 06, 2007
The Perils of Unemployment
aka, Why I've been a blog slacker despite having more time on my hands.
I've been officially unemployed since Friday. As you can see, it's been over a week since I've been here, despite all this new time on my hands, so it's probably pretty obvious that either I've been really busy keeping house with these extra 9 hours on my hands every day, or I've been lazy about switching from my real gmail account to my blogger gmail account, for fear of forgetting one of my passwords and forever being locked out of my everyday account. Bad blogger. I'm working on a solution to this problem now, I swear. If only I could think of a reasonable pen name that doesn't sound like a hooker's call sign...
So this morning, I'm sitting here on my couch, kittens snuggled up napping on either side of me, wondering how early I can call my neighbor to go take a 4-mile walk through the neighborhood. And I have nothing witty to say. It's like I left my funny brain behind when I walked out of those doors of my former place of employment Thursday evening. Or maybe it's the extreme amount of writing I've managed to get done in the last 2 days. (That word count over on the sidebar, by the way, is for the first draft. I've just surpassed it in the second draft, so if I can get my lazy fingers to do anything other than type in the wip today, you might see it updated tonight.)
No funny dreams lately, no obnoxious run-ins with any coworkers who have no idea how hilarious they are (No, I won't stamp your personal bills for you!), just some housecleaning and writing and visiting with Mr. Honey, who's about 3 hours away for a month of training. Oh, and reading. Lots and lots of reading - 3 books plus 3/4 of an audio book since last Monday. Woo-hoo! That's one part of summer vacation that'll never get old.
Anyway, in honor of all this new time on my hands, I'm blogging today about time management over at the Deadline Divas. Hope you'll stop on by!
Happy Hump Day.Labels: Holidays, work, writing
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Thursday, April 12, 2007
Thought for the day
Does a man's manhood have to be straining his jeans in order for him to be sexy?
I've got my own thoughts on the subject, but I'm curious what everyone else thinks.
Oh, and a quick clarification - I was exaggerating in yesterday's post. I don't really know anyone who sprouted trees in their lungs.Labels: reading, writing
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Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Asses
I mentioned to Mr. Honey at lunch today that I have dealings at work occasionally with this guy who's just an ass. But when I assured Mr. Honey that he's in no way ever been as much of an ass as this guy, Mr. Honey got offended. So that made me wonder, what's with men and being asses?
So then I realized it's a recurring theme in my life. Sort of. See, in my current wip, I've thought about having my hero mention to my heroine that all guys who are asses know that they're asses, and they're generally proud of it. But why is this?
Is it a guy thing to be an ass? Is it a sign of their machoness that they can be the biggest ass on the block? I think there should be a law that if your personality has too much ass, your body shouldn't be allowed any. Er, any good-looking ass, that is. I wouldn't mind if more asses had asses as big as their ass-egos. Then you could see them coming.
For the record, yes, Mr. Honey can be an ass. But overall he's a great guy, and I accept the ass-ness because his good qualities outweight the assy qualities. But I suppose I should ask for Mr. Honey's sake that you not tell any of his friends that I told you so. Might ruin his ass-putation.Labels: asses, writing
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