Thank you MB Toolbox for vindicating me! I would hate to be so "early Web 2.0"! I'm not too busy to post every day, I'm just conserving web resources and staving off an attack of Blog Rage.
I've decided to limit my blogging to Mondays. Seems logical right? We'll see how well I keep up with that... Here's Moira Allen's piece on Setting Effective Writing Goals.
Here's a couple more links:
First, Project Gutenberg is celebrating its 35th Anniversary by offering (in conjunction with World eBook Fair) over 300,000 free downloads until August 4th.
And I'd like to see a little more action on the Poets & Writers Forum, Speakeasy. Let's all go there and say vibrant, witty, insightful things.
Monday, July 31, 2006
Thursday, July 20, 2006
The Time Management Blues
Time Management. The bane of my life. As a young person, I was exceptional at time management. Not anymore. Now, I rely on a set schedule to help me organize my time. At present, ideally, I have 2-3 hours every Monday through Friday to write. A fair amount of time, and a fairly regular amount of time, but significantly less than I would like. (A conundrum I believe ALL writers find themselves in, no?) But, it's only enough time for me to get involved in one project a day or even a week.
A couple of weeks ago, I realized that I was spending an hour or two a day on this blog and then not doing and writing. Sigh. This is representative of another of my writerly struggles: a massive tendency for procrastination and conflict avoidance. Is writing a conflict? Well, it's a struggle. It's wrestling with ideas. It's WORK, dammit.
So, as you can see by the date of my last entry, I decided to cut back on the time I spend on the blog and put more energy into writing. Still, I am masterful at avoinding hard projects. I was ducking away from my "real" writing projects: the article writing. I fiddled around with a story, outlined a possible plot for a whole new novel, (I only have 2 unfinished ones haunting me!) wrote a poem. I still wasn't just writing. So that's my goal for this week. I'm going to draw the line after this sentence, and return my attention to my current project -- an article about Urban Explorers.
A couple of weeks ago, I realized that I was spending an hour or two a day on this blog and then not doing and writing. Sigh. This is representative of another of my writerly struggles: a massive tendency for procrastination and conflict avoidance. Is writing a conflict? Well, it's a struggle. It's wrestling with ideas. It's WORK, dammit.
So, as you can see by the date of my last entry, I decided to cut back on the time I spend on the blog and put more energy into writing. Still, I am masterful at avoinding hard projects. I was ducking away from my "real" writing projects: the article writing. I fiddled around with a story, outlined a possible plot for a whole new novel, (I only have 2 unfinished ones haunting me!) wrote a poem. I still wasn't just writing. So that's my goal for this week. I'm going to draw the line after this sentence, and return my attention to my current project -- an article about Urban Explorers.
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