Butt in the Chair
Mar. 15th, 2010 11:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shannon_aOne of the first rules for writing is to get your butt in the chair, and that's what I started doing tonight. My current goal is to put a solid hour of writing and revision into the RPG History book at the least every Monday, Tuesday, Saturday, and Sunday. Maybe on Friday too, game prep allowing, and Saturday, energy level allowing, but those are less set. At least for the weekdays, that hour will be 10pm-11pm, which is after K. and I usually go our separate ways for the evening.
So today I started off with work on the TSR article. The previous draft turned out to be somewhere in the neighborhood of 16,500 words. I edited through the first seven pages of thirty-six today.
My main goal is polishing text and making it sound better. I'm also trying to be aware of where pull quotes can go, since one of my goals for the new draft is to have a pull-quote every thousand words. As luck would have it, I inserted three pull quotes for the first three thousand words, which is right on schedule.
I started off with TSR not because it's first chapter (though it is), but because I have more TSR material to add than anything else, based on the computer book I recently read. I'm hoping to get through the whole draft before I add new computer material, but we'll see how far I can get. Sunday is probably the day when I need to sit down and make sure all my notes make sense while I still have Dungeons & Desktops on hand.
So there's a first butt-in-chair day. Four hours a week won't cut it to finish the book, not even with almost a year to go, but it's a good start to get me back into the habit of writing (and revising) in the evenings.
So today I started off with work on the TSR article. The previous draft turned out to be somewhere in the neighborhood of 16,500 words. I edited through the first seven pages of thirty-six today.
My main goal is polishing text and making it sound better. I'm also trying to be aware of where pull quotes can go, since one of my goals for the new draft is to have a pull-quote every thousand words. As luck would have it, I inserted three pull quotes for the first three thousand words, which is right on schedule.
I started off with TSR not because it's first chapter (though it is), but because I have more TSR material to add than anything else, based on the computer book I recently read. I'm hoping to get through the whole draft before I add new computer material, but we'll see how far I can get. Sunday is probably the day when I need to sit down and make sure all my notes make sense while I still have Dungeons & Desktops on hand.
So there's a first butt-in-chair day. Four hours a week won't cut it to finish the book, not even with almost a year to go, but it's a good start to get me back into the habit of writing (and revising) in the evenings.