Archive: Productivity category
This pretty much goes without saying, but distractions are anathema to productivity.
My sense of time apparently has some kind of terminal illness; I was sure it had only been a day or two since I last posted here.
Reading Cory Doctorow's "Extreme Geek" article on Locus got me thinking about my own writing tools.
It's not about the numbers, I know, but I often feel like I want to do everything and be everything, swallowing the universe down whole so I can really truly live it.
A couple weeks ago I was reading Shannon Hale's blog, and she mentioned that she would be keynoting at the upcoming UVU Forum on Children's Literature.
I love index cards. For years I've been carrying them around in my front pocket to manage my to-do list, and recently I discovered a new use for them: writing novels.
It's been over a month now that I've been at Inbox Zero or very close to it, with a few days here and there where I haven't quite made it. And I've realized something.
I figured that it'd be a good time to do a quick review of my New Year's resolutions and see how I'm coming.
Television didn't used to bother me, but over the past few weeks it's become a set of long, chipped fingernails scraping across a chalkboard for me. There's something about it -- the mindlessness of most of it, perhaps? -- that grates on my nerves. It's becoming almost physical; ...
So, the left hem on my new dress pants decided to come down a few days ago. I guess it just couldn't hold on any longer, poor thing. Since the trailing hem was getting in the way of things, and since I'm not exactly adept with sewing needles, ...
