Tuesday, November 11, 2008
!!! FOUR DAYS WITHOUT A NET !!!
No email. The horror! The horror... I've been out of town, and the only ISP within reach was an excruciatingly slow dial-up. So I was off the grid. The good news is that I wrote 7500 words and got some editing done, too, so all in all it was a most productive time. How are you?
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Off the grid can be valuable. Last year, I attended a week-long writers conference on productivity, and we only met briefly each day, spent the week without email or the web (no research!), just writing, writing, writing.
I produced 14,600 words in 5 days (well below the workshop's goal of 30,000, but then again mine looked pretty good compared to the more "productive" writers).
A friend and fellow writer only reads email twice a day (morning and evening) to help her own productivity.
The workshop also suggested that blogging is a time and creativity wasting endeavor. So, obviously they weren't right about everything!
I produced 14,600 words in 5 days (well below the workshop's goal of 30,000, but then again mine looked pretty good compared to the more "productive" writers).
A friend and fellow writer only reads email twice a day (morning and evening) to help her own productivity.
The workshop also suggested that blogging is a time and creativity wasting endeavor. So, obviously they weren't right about everything!
Mr. Covey! How's things, dude?
I'm going to play the devil's advocate and suggest that the workshop leaders were probably correct about blogs being a waste of time and creative effort.
I am *completely* unconvinced that this blog is worthwhile. As you can see from the sporadic postings, I don't really have time for it. And how about a show of hands -- who's bored with me already? But I told myself I'd run through the end of the year at least, giving the experiment a little time, so I soldier on.
Sweet work hitting 14K in 5 days, btw.
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I'm going to play the devil's advocate and suggest that the workshop leaders were probably correct about blogs being a waste of time and creative effort.
I am *completely* unconvinced that this blog is worthwhile. As you can see from the sporadic postings, I don't really have time for it. And how about a show of hands -- who's bored with me already? But I told myself I'd run through the end of the year at least, giving the experiment a little time, so I soldier on.
Sweet work hitting 14K in 5 days, btw.
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