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By: Bookmarks about Writing

Bookmarks about Writing — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 21:00:44 +0000

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By: Berry

Berry — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:40:27 +0000

Since I’m gearing up to begin a new short story foray this weekend, I’m staying offline next week as much as possible. I might post a few excerpts from my last rough draft of the shoggoth story next week, but that’s it. My goal word count-wise is 4k–quite doable so long as I stay unplugged from this Matrixy-intarweebs thing.

By: Jonathan Wood

Jonathan Wood — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:59:58 +0000

For hardcore productivity… John Klima linked to this yesterday: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4476

But, yeah, it’s amazing how much shit I’m getting done this week.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:46:28 +0000

This is even including skimming, and using Google Reader, so I only have to go to one webpage. I don’t think it would be that bad if I didn’t keep checking them three or four times a day….heh.

By: Gloria Weber

Gloria Weber — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:22:20 +0000

I got in the habit of skimming blogs. Unless it is a short post or one I know I “should” read, I skip it. At start of summer I was up to 2 hours, but now I’m down to 30 minutes, 1 hour on bad days. You know what my time suck is- on the plus side, that’s almost done on my behalf.

By: J. T. Glover

J. T. Glover — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:39:08 +0000

Agreed with Michelle. This has been the Week from Hell for me, work-wise, but at the start I said I’d (more or less) take a LiveJournal break. What do you know? More productive already, even working long hours at the day job.

About a year ago I bought an egg timer as an aid to writing. I got it for those absolutely stuck moments when I couldn’t imagine writing — I would set the timer for fifteen minutes and promise myself one sentence at the end of it. Usually that got me going, and I haven’t had to use it for a while. But now? I think I’m going to put a timer on my internet usage in the morning. It’s nice to blog and all that, but it’s so easy to wrapped up in reading and thinking about writing instead of writing itself.

By: Michelle Muenzler

Michelle Muenzler — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:43:16 +0000

3-4 hours per day? Holy crapamoly! Do what you have to do to get some time back. Unlike some resources, time is not renewable.