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POST #3:  I AM WRITER, SEE ME STRUT

4/24/2013

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Yeah, I’m strutting: 
I met my goal for today!  It didn’t come about exactly the way I’d planned, but I’m still feeling good about it.

Here’s an update – let me know what you think of this as a template:


TODAY’S GOAL:  make progress on revising the 50 pages I’m submitting to Agent A

RESULTS:  revised all 50 pages!  I marked up my changes on paper, and put about half of them into the computer.  I’ve been making additional adjustments as I type in the edits, and I’m liking the results.

HICCUPS:  my stated writing time was “morning,” but I didn’t begin until after noon

DEMONS:  the evil twins - email and Facebook

LESSONS:
  it’s easy to get caught up in my “to do” list and let time get away from me

GOING FORWARD:  try Deb Courtney’s “triage” strategy of sorting email (along with other “to do” items) into categories:
    • urgent:  must be handled NOW
    • pressing:  handle by “close of business” today
    • timely:  deal with in the next couple days
    Everything else goes in the trash or a “tickle” file for later.

TOMORROW’S GOAL:  finish entering edits into computer; review all 50 pages for formatting, typos and final tweaks

EXTRAS:  name my writing demons and blog about it (with an update, of course)

What do you think?  Do you like these categories?  Am I missing any? 
What about you—are you setting goals?  Naming demons?  Strutting?


DISCLAIMER:  I reserve the right at all times to revise the above categories.  Because I love revisions.  And categories.  And naming categories.  And revising the names of categories.  Since I’m doing so well on my goals, I may have some extra time for playing with names.

WARNING:  If this were fiction I’d have some serious concerns that the above strutting and self-assured comments are foreshadowing a fall.  But since this isn’t fiction, I shall strut off-screen, completely unworried about it.

READER THOUGHT BUBBLE:  She really shouldn’t do that.  It’s tempting fate.  She’s definitely headed for a fall.  It’s inevitable.  I wonder if she’s doing this to illustrate what NOT to do.  Maybe this is staged….

MY REPLY:  No, this is not staged, and I’m not intending to fail tomorrow as a demo.  Au contraire, my reader.  I will hit my goal again tomorrow.  Mark my words.  (What, you didn’t think I could read your thought bubble?)
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    Chris Mandeville is the president of Delve Writing and a writer of "new adult" novels and a non-fiction project for writers. 

    This is the chronicle of her journey to define and achieve her writing goals.

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