So it's Monday and tag, I'm it!
I thought for today, I'd remind us all of our goals. That'll make determining whether we hit our milestone a little easier.
So here goes:
Trisha: 2 chapters/week
Tim: 7 hours/week
Jan: Make contact and get on top of any bookkeeping details
Brenda: Make a decision about project
Moi: Research and outline
To be fair, it hasn't been a full week yet. You can still cram tonight!!
Keep in mind our next meeting is 4 weeks from Saturday and happy writing, planning, calling, etc.
Happy Inking, Scribbling, Jotting, and Blotting!
Monday, March 23, 2009
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Tim's Milestone #1
It’s Monday. Well, almost. And if that weren’t bad enough, I haven’t yet my goal of 7 hours this past week.
I had wanted to put down a specific number of pages to get written each week, but my fellow scribes and scribblers don’t want me to get discouraged if I don’t meet that goal in a given week. So we brainstormed and decided that an hourly goal would be better, given my current state of busyness.
No problem, I thought with glee, now I can go back and revise without having to have a production quota hanging over my head! Woo hoo!
Unfortunately, my glee was short-lived, as one particularly informed scribe told of my bad revising habits to the others and now I can’t even go back to revise what’s already been done.
[Sigh.]
Of course, this is why I’m a part of a group like this. They’re helping me avoid the pitfalls I find myself so often trying to climb out of! Just one of the many reasons I’m so grateful we’re uniting our efforts for the greater good!
Here’s a quote I’m striving to make my mantra, my motto, my mojo:
“He who every morning plans the transactions of the day and follows out that plan carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.”~ Victor Hugo
I had wanted to put down a specific number of pages to get written each week, but my fellow scribes and scribblers don’t want me to get discouraged if I don’t meet that goal in a given week. So we brainstormed and decided that an hourly goal would be better, given my current state of busyness.
No problem, I thought with glee, now I can go back and revise without having to have a production quota hanging over my head! Woo hoo!
Unfortunately, my glee was short-lived, as one particularly informed scribe told of my bad revising habits to the others and now I can’t even go back to revise what’s already been done.
[Sigh.]
Of course, this is why I’m a part of a group like this. They’re helping me avoid the pitfalls I find myself so often trying to climb out of! Just one of the many reasons I’m so grateful we’re uniting our efforts for the greater good!
Here’s a quote I’m striving to make my mantra, my motto, my mojo:
“He who every morning plans the transactions of the day and follows out that plan carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.”~ Victor Hugo
Friday, March 20, 2009
Writing: An Adventure
Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him out to the public.
----------Winston Churchill----------
----------Winston Churchill----------
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Testing...1...2...3
Am I on? [hear the shake in my voice--see me gingerly tap the microphone]
This past Tuesday I participated in a group I've always dreamed about.Back in the 1930s and 40s, a group of writers met to discuss what they loved. "The Inklings" were literary enthusiasts who believed what they wrote had merit. Members of the group included J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, as well as a host of others--some of whom wrote for pleasure and some of whom wrote for pay.
The best part?--they, too, got their start on a Tuesday.
Here we are--5 of us--who met this week for the first time. I anticipate a lot of things: brainstorming, critiquing, laughing, improving--but most of all, I look forward to the same thing our counterparts looked forward to almost 80 years ago:
The quietness of writing that follows the encouragement of friends.
This past Tuesday I participated in a group I've always dreamed about.Back in the 1930s and 40s, a group of writers met to discuss what they loved. "The Inklings" were literary enthusiasts who believed what they wrote had merit. Members of the group included J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, as well as a host of others--some of whom wrote for pleasure and some of whom wrote for pay.
The best part?--they, too, got their start on a Tuesday.
Here we are--5 of us--who met this week for the first time. I anticipate a lot of things: brainstorming, critiquing, laughing, improving--but most of all, I look forward to the same thing our counterparts looked forward to almost 80 years ago:
The quietness of writing that follows the encouragement of friends.
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