Category Archives: Life
Weekly Summaries March 18
Links: • I’m a fan of saving the environment, but doing without toilet paper is further than I want to go by a long shot. • What’s the next puzzle craze after sudoku? Article with sample puzzles. The nurikabe was … Continue reading
Goals for 2007
First, How I Did on 2006's Goals: On the one hand, not so great, but on the other hand, decently, considering I constantly reevaluate goals throughout the year and that I quit my job and moved to a new city. … Continue reading
The Lucky Way to Success
Here’s an appropriate post for a day when I didn’t get much writing done because I had to stay late at the dayjob: Fred Gratzon, in Your Calling and The Real World, writes: I see squandering the better part of … Continue reading
Making Time to Write
A making time to write two-fer: JA Konrath on relaxing activities to give up and Shadawyn on getting mental work done throughout the day. I don’t think Mr. Konrath is actually suggesting to never do any of those activities, considering … Continue reading
Headspace & Being a Writer
Shadawyn has a post on headspace (focus) and linked to a related article by Jennifer Crusie. Keeping my mind on my work is one of my biggest problems; my current solution is to go to a coffee shop on the … Continue reading
How to do What You Love
From Paul Graham’s essay How to Do What You Love: Another test you can use is: always produce. For example, if you have a day job you don’t take seriously because you plan to be a novelist, are you producing? … Continue reading
Time Management
Lately I’ve been reading yet another time management/productivity book, and I thought I’d take the time to review some of the useful ideas I’ve got from various sources. The three systems I’ve tried over the past few years each have … Continue reading
New Year’s Goals – 2006
It’s about that time of year again. Results for 2005: * Stick with the daily writing schedule (7 hours/week) – Did well enough at this, and surpassed it, for much of the year. Lately things have been backsliding. * Finish … Continue reading
