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Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Earphones are MAAAAAAgic!
I just hooked up my Alphasmart and uploaded everything I've written on it in the last week. It came out to five pages, which is better than I expected. My total word count now stands at 52,550.
I'm sure the two of you who read this blog appreciate the updates. ;)
At-home writing has gotten easier since late last week when my husband and I finally hauled our sorry selves into the twenty-first century and acquired our very first mp3 players. I've had this thing for less than a week and I already don't know how I ever lived without it. Apart from being able to carry my entire CD collection in my pocket, which in itself is awesome, and apart from being able to load podcasts onto it to listen to while I do the more tedious aspects of my day job that take me away from my computer, I'm finding that the best thing about it is how it functions as a virtual office door. When my husband sees me typing with my earbuds plugged in, he doesn't interrupt me. Somehow, the typing alone was never enough to merit observance of my workspace, but typing PLUS earphones apparently means I'm really most seriously working and am not to be interrupted. Which is fine by me. I never would have achieved those five pages otherwise.
I'm sure the two of you who read this blog appreciate the updates. ;)
At-home writing has gotten easier since late last week when my husband and I finally hauled our sorry selves into the twenty-first century and acquired our very first mp3 players. I've had this thing for less than a week and I already don't know how I ever lived without it. Apart from being able to carry my entire CD collection in my pocket, which in itself is awesome, and apart from being able to load podcasts onto it to listen to while I do the more tedious aspects of my day job that take me away from my computer, I'm finding that the best thing about it is how it functions as a virtual office door. When my husband sees me typing with my earbuds plugged in, he doesn't interrupt me. Somehow, the typing alone was never enough to merit observance of my workspace, but typing PLUS earphones apparently means I'm really most seriously working and am not to be interrupted. Which is fine by me. I never would have achieved those five pages otherwise.
Labels: Hero+Factor, progress+reports, writing life
Monday, February 18, 2008
Excuse-making and lamery
Hi there. Remember me?
I wrote a leetle bit over the weekend. And I've written other little bits here and there over the last few weeks. So I can claim that I'm still writing, but it's pretty sporadic, I must confess.
Part of it is that I started up the paid blogging again. I really can't say that I entirely enjoy paid blogging, but it's easy money, and I've already paid off about a thousand dollars worth of debt this way, so I'm considering it my penance for getting into so much debt in the first place. So now my excuse for not writing (and for neglecting my "just for fun" blogs) is that I'm having a hard time balancing it with the blogging. And work and marriage and my sick dog and knitting and blah blah whine real life is hard.
I've also been ultra-ADD lately, but I'm starting to get that back under control.
So, no more excuses. I've got to kick my own hinder back into gear. I don't remember which of the Nano pep talk cheerleaders last year said that their goal is to just write 10 words a day (the theory being that once you get ten down, a few hundred or so more won't be that hard), and I'm adopting that goal. I didn't have time to squeeze in even ten words today, but I've given myself an assignment to tackle them tonight before I go to bed. I'll let you know tomorrow how I did.
I wrote a leetle bit over the weekend. And I've written other little bits here and there over the last few weeks. So I can claim that I'm still writing, but it's pretty sporadic, I must confess.
Part of it is that I started up the paid blogging again. I really can't say that I entirely enjoy paid blogging, but it's easy money, and I've already paid off about a thousand dollars worth of debt this way, so I'm considering it my penance for getting into so much debt in the first place. So now my excuse for not writing (and for neglecting my "just for fun" blogs) is that I'm having a hard time balancing it with the blogging. And work and marriage and my sick dog and knitting and blah blah whine real life is hard.
I've also been ultra-ADD lately, but I'm starting to get that back under control.
So, no more excuses. I've got to kick my own hinder back into gear. I don't remember which of the Nano pep talk cheerleaders last year said that their goal is to just write 10 words a day (the theory being that once you get ten down, a few hundred or so more won't be that hard), and I'm adopting that goal. I didn't have time to squeeze in even ten words today, but I've given myself an assignment to tackle them tonight before I go to bed. I'll let you know tomorrow how I did.
Labels: excuses, writing life
