–general update

We’ll I didn’t get to my plotting work yesterday, but I did manage to complete the tattoo story draft. I think it’s working. I’ll sit on it a week and then come back to it with all of my pre-drafting notes to see if there’s anything I wanted, but left out.

I have two shorter works I need to work out this week. One of them I’m clear on where I will take it, the other is the shorter one and I still haven’t got a clue what I’m going to do with it. I think it might be basically a revelation story of some kind. Those are normally the easiest to write really short. I’ll probably do a little day dreaming tonight while looking through some artwork and see where it takes me.

–organizing

On a personal note, I’ve been looking at some methods for increasing my personal productivity. One of the things I’ve always tried to do was simplify things. I do that at work all the time. I always look at a project or a process and try to come up with some way to make it easier, cleaner, simple. Bring everything to level 0. There’s something about hitting Tabula Rasa every morning that makes the day easier. Cognitive offloading is the next thing I plan to work on. I’m not certain how easy it’s going to be. I have some plans in place, but I think I’m going to wait until I can read David Allen’s book. I’ve heard a lot of people talk about it.

Systems are strange. A lot of times if you try to follow one you end up micromanaging your life. It’s not fun, so after about a month or two you quit. Well, at least that’s been my experience. So a loose system, no better yet, a framework is what I’ve been looking for. I think the old GTD will help with this. At least in the writing and health department anyway.

–the new novel

Research for the new novel is going great. I’d go into more detail, but it’s too early to really talk to anyone about this project. I’m always concerned about talking out a story. Until it’s down in what I like to cal actionable form, I don’t want to even mention it.

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