Tuesday, May 18, 2010

This & That on a Tuesday

It's time for my weekly brain dump!

-Have you seen Writers' Blok by Jackson Pearce? It's hilarious, and oh so true. If I had a dollar for every  minute I spent blogging, tweeting or on Facebook instead of writing, I'd be a very, very rich woman by now.
-Speaking of time management, Maggie Stiefvater posted her tips on time management.  I'm a big believer in #1. Now that I'm a Domestic Engineer, I get all of my unpleasant household chores out of the way before I can get to the job I'm not paid for but enjoy a lot more: writing!
-Now that I'm pondering work on my 1920's time travel novel once again, I've been spending a lot of time at Shorpy. It is such a great resource for vintage photos-and there are a ton of Washington, DC which is helpful since that's where my story takes place.
-I've earned enough Swagbucks to put a whole lotta dollars into my Amazon account so I can buy a laser printer next month. This will make going through the revision process a lot easier for me! If you're not into Swagbucks, I'd give it a go. It's a pretty easy way to make free money. I've gotten a few friends into it, and at least one uses it to support her book habit!
-Speaking of revisions, I'm going through my WIP and making chapter notes that I can refer back to when I'm ready to start revising. I figure it will help me stay organized and not have to refer to the manuscript a million times. Some notes are simple, like "mention more info about the setting" and others are more complicated. There are a few chapters that are going to need total revision, probably nothing will stay. So, I worked through about eight chapters last night. My WIP has forty-one chapters so far, so it's going to take some time. What's your revision process like?

1 comments:

  1. Still on the rough draft!

    Also, I loved that video!

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