From the monthly archives:

December 2004

Progress and Totals

12 December 2004

Goal – 100 pages
Monday-3 pages Tuesday-1 page* Wednesday-1 page Thursday-6 pages* Friday-1 page* Saturday-0 Sunday-0
Finale-12 pathetic pages
Yeah, yeah, I know – I have twelve more than I did the week before.  But it’s not much of a consolation when I know I’m capable of so much more.
I think I’m still tired from last month.  I [...]

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Because I’m procrastinating writing. . .

11 December 2004

I’m redesigning my laurieashton.com site. And learning html. And learning how to use Dreamweaver. And learning about templates and css and rss and all sorts of other acronyms.
That’s what I’m doing. Instead of writing.
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Progress

9 December 2004

Goal – 100 pages
Monday- 3 pages Tuesday- 1 page Wednesday-1 page Thursday- 6 pages
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Have questions you can’t find the answers for?

9 December 2004

Check out the research groups for writers.  Those lists are specifically for when you need info and have no idea where to find it. 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rains_writers_research/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/carmelsloop/
There are probably more out there, but these are two I use.
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Must write.

9 December 2004

I really need to do some major writing.
So far, all I’ve managed this week – as far as actual writing goes – is 3 pages. Morning pages. It doesn’t even count towards novel writing. Sheesh.
Last week, I worked on developing a better plotting strategy. It’s worked well, I think. But then – now, really – [...]

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I’m just going to have to take myself a little more seriously as a writer

8 December 2004

Which I haven’t been.
So I’m going to report here each day about what progress I’ve made as a writer, whether it be plot development, character development, a funky idea I had that was inspired by an odd dream, writing page counts, or editing.
In theory, the publicness of this will provide me some incentive to write [...]

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PDAs for word processing

7 December 2004

I have been using a Palm M105 (bought in about 2000 for $125) with the folding keyboard, also by Palm (about $50 in 2001, I think) and it works fine.  The folding keyboard is almost as small as the palm in its case, so toss both in the purse and you hardly notice it.  Um, [...]

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Progress

6 December 2004

Goal – 100 pages
Monday- 3 pages (plus some necessary plotting and editing, but we won’t talk about those. Shhh!)
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BIW starts today

6 December 2004

And I’ve signed up for 100 pages written.
On the one hand, it’s a lofty goal, but on the other hand, it’s not such a big deal. I’ve done more than that before, so I can do it again.
However. I’ve been neglecting my writing much lately. Ramadan is one excuse. Computer giving me a major hardware [...]

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