I’m back at work today and there to greet me is a shiny new operating system on my work computer. In some ways it’s a lost day, since I have to install and configure a bunch of widgets, get all my devices talking to one another again, et cetera, et cetera. On the plus side, [...]
Archive for the 'productivity' Category
wisdom of the controlled burn
novel report
So. The bad news is that the second act is a mess, and my first reader alerted me to the fact that my story actually starts with a scene well into the first act. Last night at writers’ group was the first time I’d touched the manuscript in more than a week because I’d been [...]
if you want a jump on the whole new year’s resolution thing…
Here’s a great place to start: 50 Strategies For Making Yourself Work, courtesy of Jerry Oltion and the folks at SFWA. I appreciated this list because, like the author, I find that any productivity strategy that works for me does not work forever — the work-avoidance part of my brain is far too clever for [...]
writer’s bookshelf: on writing by stephen king
I’ve been thinking about On Writing, Stephen King’s memoir/writing treatise a lot in the last two days, because Monday morning I awoke to some medium-to-severe back pain. A trip to a massage therapist didn’t help, and it felt even worse today. Grrr. In general, I lead a largely pain-free existence, and on days like these [...]
worldcat, an essential and free tool for readers and writers
Skipping the writer’s bookshelf for the moment to plug an online tool I use all the time: WorldCat (www.worldcat.org). No, it doesn’t have anything to do with cats, unfortunately — the “cat” is short for catalog, and it’s (among other things) an aggregator of information from libraries all over the world about their holdings. If [...]