'Tis that time o' year gang!
I take a monthly writing webinar online. It's out of Los Angeles. It's a great way to stay informed about the biz, keep on your competitive toes, get inundated with way too many "tiny url" twitter tweet articles daily and e-newsletter updates weekly. In truth, it makes me a little nuts b/c I'm already too freakin' busy to keep up with my own work let alone "tiny URL" article tweets daily, but I absolutely always learn something I didn't know before. So on I toil.
This weekend's newsletter update was re: getting those 2010 calendars mapped out for the coming year.
I have to say, I began taking this course last January and it was astounding how incredibly productive those calendars are. I had usually just drawn up a writing To-Do List, stuck it on the fridge and moved on from there. But writing the jobs down on a calendar, mapping them out, putting a deadline down in black & white (or whatever other fancy color you might choose) -- wow, it really makes you productive. Between January of 2009 and late March 2009, I wrote on the calendar that I needed to finish writing the Rudolph Valentino novel and then get to L.A. to meet with my agent about it. That was nearly 400 new pages in 90 days. But by mid-April, as loyal readers of this lofty blog no doubt recall, I was at the Chateau Marmant in L.A., having dinner with my agent and discussing my masterpiece of a novel!
Mapped-out timelines and deadlines are incredible, gang! They also wreak havoc on all of your personal relationships! Yay! Two potential relationships bit the dust rather quickly for me between Jan. 09 and March 09, b/c I was writing like a fucking fiend and had absolutely no time for any of it, intensely horny as I was, but oh well. What are you gonna do about it? If you're driven, you're driven. Me thinks it best to hook-up with a partner as equally driven! Which is what I've finally done this time. It has all the earmarks, anyway, of a winning formula. We shall soon see!
So I got all excited yesterday about the prospects of getting that calendar mapped out for 2010. Nothing makes me happier than doing a ton of isolating work! On the way home last evening, I stopped in at the store and bought a calendar remarkably similar to the one pictured below! And now guess what? I gotta get crackin' and plan out those projects for 2010 (of which, of course, I have too many!). Hope your Sunday is equally exciting wherever you are, folks. Have a great day & thanks for visiting.
This weekend's newsletter update was re: getting those 2010 calendars mapped out for the coming year.
I have to say, I began taking this course last January and it was astounding how incredibly productive those calendars are. I had usually just drawn up a writing To-Do List, stuck it on the fridge and moved on from there. But writing the jobs down on a calendar, mapping them out, putting a deadline down in black & white (or whatever other fancy color you might choose) -- wow, it really makes you productive. Between January of 2009 and late March 2009, I wrote on the calendar that I needed to finish writing the Rudolph Valentino novel and then get to L.A. to meet with my agent about it. That was nearly 400 new pages in 90 days. But by mid-April, as loyal readers of this lofty blog no doubt recall, I was at the Chateau Marmant in L.A., having dinner with my agent and discussing my masterpiece of a novel!
Mapped-out timelines and deadlines are incredible, gang! They also wreak havoc on all of your personal relationships! Yay! Two potential relationships bit the dust rather quickly for me between Jan. 09 and March 09, b/c I was writing like a fucking fiend and had absolutely no time for any of it, intensely horny as I was, but oh well. What are you gonna do about it? If you're driven, you're driven. Me thinks it best to hook-up with a partner as equally driven! Which is what I've finally done this time. It has all the earmarks, anyway, of a winning formula. We shall soon see!
So I got all excited yesterday about the prospects of getting that calendar mapped out for 2010. Nothing makes me happier than doing a ton of isolating work! On the way home last evening, I stopped in at the store and bought a calendar remarkably similar to the one pictured below! And now guess what? I gotta get crackin' and plan out those projects for 2010 (of which, of course, I have too many!). Hope your Sunday is equally exciting wherever you are, folks. Have a great day & thanks for visiting.
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