The Blog
Links of Interest – 3
1. Check out this post on the 12 Most Overlooked Blog Set Up Basics to see if you’re doing any of them.
2. GeektheLibrary.org is a community project that celebrates and rallies support for public libraries.
3. The Incomplete Manifesto For Growth from BruceMauDesigns.com offers some great advice to live a full life.
Goal Boards
Looking for a way to keep track of your goals? Check out these goal/to do boards.
1. DIY Rotating Goal List by Cornflower Blue.
2. Daily Goals for the Week Board from Smile Like You Mean It.
3. Kids Summer List (with Pizazz) by Homestories A 2 Z
I’m Stuck And I Can’t Write
Picture by visuallight
When I get stuck while I’m writing, it’s usually a sign that I went the wrong way with my story somewhere. Recently, I had to admit I’d jacked up my story. In my haste to reach the end, I made a bad plot decision. This decision deflated my heroine’s spunk and had my hero acting out of character.
Winter Craftiness
Here are some neat projects to make and use during the cold months.
1. DIY HANDWARMERS from armommy.com
Edits My Way
Picture courtesy of Nalini Prasanna
Today, my accountability group is sharing our editing process. I’m still tweaking mine to see what works and what doesn’t. So here are the parts of my process:
1. Edit a hard copy. I print out a chapter at time, two pages on one sheet a paper with 1.15 line spacing. Working on a chapter at a time makes the whole thought daunting. I also like the portability of printed pages. I can stick them in my purse or pocket and be able to work just about anywhere. Also, seeing my words in a different format helps me catch errors/funky parts I might miss my first round of edits. Once I done with the pages, they go into my scratch paper box and get used for to do lists, doodles and to record bursts of my creative genius when I can’t get to a notebook.
2. Write in a notebook. Sometimes I jot down the changes in a notebook as I read the hard copy. Or if I’m doing edits on the computer and get stuck, I’ll bust out a notebook and rework the section longhand.
Alive and Awake
When I need to get in the zone while I’m writing, I listen to Awake and Alive by Skillet.
Soda Santa and Elf
Here are the Christmas gifts my younger kids and I made for their teachers. They did most of the work. I was the glue supervisor and instruction giver. We drew on last year’s Soda Elf idea.
Sorry for the picture quality. My phone was rebelling that night.
Links of Interest – 1
So my word for 2013 is reduce the clutter in my life so I can life more purposely and freely. Aside from getting rid of stuff in my home, I’ll be clearing out my computer. I have tons of files that haven’t been touched in ages or are of no use as well as sites I bookmarked for later review. Later never came. These links have been piling up for over a year.
I’m going to go through my saved links and share the ones I think are cool or useful.
New Year, New Attitude
Happy 2013!
At the start of of each new year, I’m full of excitement, hope and lessons learned during the previous year.
Here are somethings I learned in 2012 that I will use to my 2013 an awesome and productive year.
1. You can only be you (and why would you want to be someone else?). As much as I would love to blow through 5k words a day or have a ton of followers on Tweet, it’s not realistic for me. I can only do what I do. And if I do what I do to the best of my abilities and enjoy it, then I’m doing right.
2. Not every task has to be handled right now. I didn’t get this until the year was almost over. I’d receive an email or phone call while I was working on something and stop what I was doing to attend to the email or call. It took me longer to get things done and I made some not the best decisions because I acted too quickly.
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