I Speak With the Tongue of a Thousand White-Hot Lies!

( Standard Disclaimer )

So, I totes forgot to do this yesterday. (Yeah, I said "totes forgot." I have no idea who the hell to blame that one on.) So we'll do it for the past two days.

Laura’s Writing Log

So, Laura, what did you do today? Writing? Revisions?

Well, actual writing of story, no. Yesterday, I posted a blog post that I'd written a few weeks back--I actually have a bunch of posts in various stages of draft saved over at WordPress, and Scott chose which one I put up. Then I worked on another one, which is all about my revision process (again at Scott's request) and is a mess.

Research?

No. And I am not best pleased with myself.

What did you do that you’re telling yourself is work?

Today, I spent some time trying to get my life organized, and put together a notebook on Springpad with submission guidelines and a bunch of writing-related to-do lists.

My Soon-to-be Standard Disclaimer:

So here’s the deal: I have a tendency to think I’m not writing. There are a couple of stretches in my life where I honestly thought I hadn’t written a damn word, until we moved and I went through all my files and found all the things I’d been working on.

That said, I don’t do well with daily word goals. I do better with page goals (when working on a book, I try to do 3-5 pages a day), but even then they need to be guidelines more than rules. Recently it’s been a lot of short stuff, so my goals are usually write the scene with the monkey and the hole punch or dear god, untangle that paragraph before it kills us all.

But in order to not beat myself up, I do need to keep a log. And I thought I’d go ahead and attempt to do that here on LJ, because why not. I’ll probably link to it on WP, but not mirror it.

We’ll see how it goes. If you scroll past, I will not blame you.

Laura’s Writing Log

So, Laura, what did you do today?  Writing?  Revisions?

Hmmm ... well, I reworked the last scene of a story that will probably never see the outside of my hard drive, because it is very self-indulgent.  But I'm okay with that, because I've mostly been working on it to just keep myself writing while the part of my brain that tells me about Corwyn and Gwen grows back.  In theory, I was also supposed to be doing research ...

Research?

Yeah, not much going there--I HATE THE BOOK I'M GOING THROUGH.  The last one was so easy to read, and this one is not.

But.  It has to be done.  Even a staff person such as I only gets so many renewals at the library.

Submissions?

Stuff is out, and I'm waiting.

What did you do that you’re telling yourself is work?

Downloaded and started making notebooks on Springpad--I think it's going to be really nice for research, actually.  It's like Pinterest, but I can clip articles and make notes and to-do lists.  And apparently, once I let it eat my soul, it'll do all sorts of crazy things like alert me when stuff I want to buy goes on sale, or when a book I like comes out, or or or or ...

But first, I slowly start compiling my Teachout net-based research.

Anything interesting to report?

Nope.  But I need a nap pretty desperately right now.