Whether you’re participating in National Novel Writing Month or not, chances are, if you’re a writer, you suffer from procrastination and having the attention span of a squirrel on crack. [iframe src=”http://giphy.com/embed/39CqBhycuM5kQ” width=”500″ height=”202″ frameBorder=”0″ webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen][/iframe] When your writing time is limited, it’s important that you make the most of it! Here’s a […]
Image by Sean MacEntee I don’t think I know a single person who doesn’t wish for more hours in the day. I regularly lust after a functional time turner. We all struggle with finding time and making time where there often seems to be none. Well, sadly, time turners don’t exist, and the teleportation technology […]
It began innocently enough with a comment by my pal Suzan Butler last night about Todoist. “What’s Todoist?” I asked. “Oh it’s a list making program. It helps me keep track of stuff.” Well OF COURSE I had to go check it out. And yeah, it is a list making program–on STEROIDS. OMG. I can […]
I am taking some time today to indulge in some foodiness, going through my big backlog of cooking mags and watching DVRed episodes of Food Network. I haven’t done this in several weeks, and it’s a nice means of mentally relaxing while laundry’s running and hubs is over at his parents’ with the dogs. The […]
I am 9 scenes from the end of DOTH! My initial NaNo frenzy has slowed down somewhat. I clocked 658 Sunday, 1009 Monday, and 1339 Tuesday. I broke 97k yesterday. I am getting SO FREAKING CLOSE, y’all. This makes it VERY VERY hard to focus on…well, ANYTHING not fiction related. I’ve turned ADD about everything […]
I had to go look up what the heck my actual goals were this round. I intended to finish Couch to 5k. Well I sort of did this. I stopped the formal program after week 6 and just moved to doing my own walk/run intervals. I still have some walking in there, but as of […]
One of the things about me and moving is that I will work obsessively for the first few weeks, unpacking every box, getting pictures hung, furniture in place, etc. Part of this is that I am an incurable klutz and having things not in a proper home means injury to me. Part of it is that I […]
I love Chuck Wendig. I’m just sayin’. He’s raw and refreshing (and yes, his use of excessive and totally creative profanity makes me laugh a great deal, a fact which I’m sure would horrify my mother–but seriously, I’d like to pit him against some of the Bard’s most creative Elizabethan insults). And so often he’s […]
I’ve been thinking a lot about ways to simplify my life during 2011. Part of that will involve getting rid of stuff in my house that I don’t want, need, or use (of which there is a shocking amount). Part of that is cutting out any unnecessary obligations. I don’t have too many of those […]