Sunday, November 21, 2004
Done for the day, or would that be night?
It's just a little before 10:30, and I've got eleven pages for the day. Two hours for eleven pages. Four, or more hours earlier today, and I got a page. One page. This kind of thing is one of the reasons it's so hard to figure out how many days it will take to do a book. It just isn't always logical. No tab a' into slot b', then turn to page three of the instruction manual. It just doesn't work like that. But I get to go to bed now. Yea!
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Posted by LKH on 11/21 at 08:21 PM
Second blog of the day
The first blog ended up being way too personal, so I?ve saved it, doubt you?ll ever see it. I know the trend in this country right now is to tell everyone everything about yourself. If that?s what you want to do, fine, but as for me, somethings are private. Somethings are just yours, you don?t have to share them, and some things just shouldn?t be shared, because no matter how understanding the listener is, they will never understand how precious, or how painful, the topic is. Ah, well. Why so glum? Well, I?m working at nearly 8:30 on a… Read More
Posted by LKH on 11/21 at 06:43 PM
Friday, November 19, 2004
A new tradition is born
You know how some compainies have causual Friday. Since we are pretty causual everyday, I suggested that we have dress up Fridays. Darla and Jon whined, and gave me that look, so I dropped the idea, for now. But you know me, once an idea enters my head, it sits there until I find something to do with it, so . . . TODAY IS THE FIRST EVER EVIL FRIDAY. How does it work? Wear a shirt with the word EVIL on it, or a scary phrase. The idea came to me while Darla was showing me some shirts… Read More
Posted by LKH on 11/19 at 06:56 AM
Thursday, November 18, 2004
Blog for the day
Doing this one in word again, so Jonathon can put it up later. Blogger has been eating too many of my posts of late. Is anyone else having this much trouble with it? Or is it just some special torment for me? Did six pages yesterday, but still the goal for the day is five, only five. I did the eight early in the day actually, then had to stop not because I was tired but because I wasn?t sure how to handle the next part. We?re finally going to get some serious clues to the mystery and I… Read More
Posted by LKH on 11/18 at 12:59 PM
Tuesday, November 16, 2004
This my second attempt at blogging this morning.
I am writing this in a windows document so Jonathon can transfer it, because my long blog was eaten, except for the title. God, I hate technology when it doesn't work. You'll get a shorter less breezy blog because I'm frustrated now, but here goes. I walked into the office and had a tremendous feeling of dejavu. Hadn't I just done this? Well, yes, as a matter of fact, I had. I owend myself a page of my five count after dinner last night. So up I went, though frankly I was tired and discouraged. All day and not… Read More
Posted by LKH on 11/16 at 06:48 AM
Monday, November 15, 2004
Another Monday, another show
Goal was to hit the to do list hard today. So I finished up an interview before breakfast. Had breakfast, though our trainer will yell at us for it not being enough food. If you don't eat enough food, and good food, while you're trying to do a heavy exercise routine, your body will hold onto the weight, because it feels like it's starving. My idea of morning food is brunch around ten o'clock. Sigh. I'm listening to A YEAR WITH FROG AND TOAD, which is my Christmas music for this book. The fact that A YEAR WITH FROG… Read More
Posted by LKH on 11/15 at 07:22 AM
Saturday, November 13, 2004
Page count vs. Hours spent
There are two main methods that writers choose for deciding how to measure their productivity on a book. One, is page count, how many pages you can do per day. Two, is at this time of day you sit down and you can't get up again for two hours, or four hours, or whatever. Or a variant of method two, is whatever time you sit down at your desk you work for two hours, and until two hours are up, you cannot leave your desk. Yesterday was a day that reminded me why I've always done page count and… Read More
Posted by LKH on 11/13 at 08:42 AM