In a blatant attempt to reach 100 FOLLOWERS, I'm hosting a competition to win books on writing and editing! See my last post for the entry form and details:
E is for Enter the Book Giveaway! (oooh, 99 so far!).
I've got a lot of projects on the go at the moment and I find that the days I stress about which to do first, I end up accomplishing nothing. I need to FOCUS on my tasks (I often say I prefer focus-tasking to multi-tasking) and FINISH what I'm on before being distracted by the other.
My current writing tasks include:
- Editing Dog Show Detective
- Writing Warracknabeal Kids
- Researching for Warracknabeal Kids
- Blogging
- Reading, book on writing and editing and all your blogs!
My project tonight is to do up a better timetable so I can schedule these projects to complete a little on a daily basis. It does help me to keep my information for each task separate. Each writing/editing project has it's own notebook. This is how I discovered I have a FETISH. I will shop for days to find just the right notebook for each project. Dog Show Detective has pets on the cover, while Warracknabeal Kids has a plain brown cardboard cover. If I spot a notebook I love, then I have to have it. I give notebooks as presents. In short, I LOVE notebooks.
F is also for Funny pranks. My protagonist in Warracknabeal Kids is a 12/13yr. old boy who is a bit of a scallywag. Not having a boy's mind for mischief, I asked my husband for some inspiration. I won't go into too much detail but his idea involved a corpse, a coffin and a chicken.
I love notebooks, too! I commend you for writing in a teenage boy's perspective! I don't think I could ever get that right!
ReplyDelete*off to enter your competition*
Love to hear about your notebook fetish. I have something along the same lines - although, it's paper. I'm constantly buying packages of paper - I can't have enough. This, in turn, fills large binders that relate to various works.
ReplyDeleteOh, and I'll be thinking of how a chicken, corpse and coffin relate together all day.
Goodness, you have a lot on your plate! I'm struggling a bit with time too, AND I procrastinate and then end up getting NOTHING done. Ridiculous really ...
ReplyDeleteThe notebook thing is great! A corpse, a coffin and a chicken, huh? My dad once told me a story from his teenage years that involved Halloween, a tractor and an occupied outhouse. Something tells me there was at least one person involved in both shenanigans that wasn't laughing.
ReplyDeleteYou really do have a lot on your plate. Good luck with balancing it all and yay!focus!
ReplyDeleteI am your 100th follower awesome! Have a wonderful day and love the post so glad you are in this challenge too!
ReplyDeleteWhat is it about notebooks that draws up to them. I have collected journals and notebooks thinking I'll use this one for this and that one for that, but never do. I just collect them. Good luck with all your tasks.
ReplyDeleteI like pretty notebooks too.
ReplyDeleteSince F is for follow, I cannot resist being follower 102! Well done on reaching your goal (and over!)
ReplyDeleteI also love notebooks. But then I feel horribly guilty if I get a gorgeous notebook and put something boring in there, like scribbling take-away telephone numbers, or details for my broadband etc. So then I feel a bit sad, buy another notebook, start off glorious and end up with shopping lists. Can't win!
I like notebooks, but even more, I like boxes and things that you put things into (containers). I enjoy reading your postings about books, because I am an avid lifetime reader.
ReplyDeleteBest regards to you.
Ruby
Good to see I'm not alone in my bizarre fetish!
ReplyDeleteI bought my dad nice notebook yesterday (because he's visiting) and now I've got him writing a novel :-)
Writing from a teen boy's perspective is feeling refreshing because it's not what I know. It's fun trying to get inside people's heads.
AND big WELCOME to my new followers. I'm dashing about a bit with dad today but plan to sit down tonight and visit all the blogs I follow and see which ones I'm missing :-)