David Thurston has... » Writing Day http://www.dlthurston.com/blog ...a blog Wed, 02 Jun 2010 18:54:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Copyright © David Thurston has... 2010 DLThurston@hotmail.com (David Thurston has...) DLThurston@hotmail.com (David Thurston has...) posts ...a blog David Thurston has... David Thurston has... DLThurston@hotmail.com No no http://www.dlthurston.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg David Thurston has... http://www.dlthurston.com/blog 144 144 …Writing Day #1 planned http://www.dlthurston.com/blog/2009/01/01/writing-day-1-planned/ http://www.dlthurston.com/blog/2009/01/01/writing-day-1-planned/#comments Fri, 02 Jan 2009 02:48:38 +0000 David Thurston http://www.dlthurston.com/blog/?p=25 Well, I ended up with tomorrow off, which I wasn’t initially expecting.  So I figured if I want to have Writing Days in 2009, why not start with the second day of the year.  I’m going to plan to clock in somewhere around 9, and start with a massive editing pass of Doorman (which probably actually means rewriting it, since I’m completely changing the structure).  That’s far from the whole day, so after that…I dunno.  Probably whatever feels right to work on.  Thinking about getting started on editing Conqueror Worm.

]]> http://www.dlthurston.com/blog/2009/01/01/writing-day-1-planned/feed/ 0 …a plan of action. http://www.dlthurston.com/blog/2008/12/30/a-plan-of-action/ http://www.dlthurston.com/blog/2008/12/30/a-plan-of-action/#comments Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:43:13 +0000 David Thurston http://www.dlthurston.com/blog/?p=24 I was originally going to call this another resolution, but I realized that’s not really what it is.  Resolutions are things that you want to get done in the coming year, and the reason a lot of them fail is that people have goals, but don’t really have a pathway planned out towards achieving those goals.  So, for 2009, I’m going to have Writing Days.  These are going to be days where writing is my job.  Clock in, do at least 6 hours work in some kind of writing, then (and this is the important part) clock out again.  These aren’t necessarily days I’ll specifically take off from work, January’s will probably be my employer-given day off on MLK Jr Day.

Now, I can already hear you.  But David, you’re saying, don’t you normally work an eight hour day?  Part of the goal will be to ramp up.  January: 6 hours.  Feb: 6.5 hours.  By May I’ll be taking an 8 hours writing day.  It’s something I’m going to have to get used to, but it’s something I want to get used to.

Follow up to yesterday: submission is safely being whisked off towards Los Angeles.

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