Progress!

[jenett]

I have managed to write a rough draft of an introduction for the Better Pagan Research book. It was less painful than it might have been (it took me about 90 minutes for 1300 words or so, which is pretty average for me once stuff's gelled properly in the back of my head.)

The introduction promised to be me more tricky than a lot of it (because a lot of it is more practical explanations of how to do things, that are pretty straightforward once you get going.)

I am, however, delighted to have the proof that I can kick my brain into gear while dealing with other things, and that I managed to turn out reasonable prose. (It now needs editing. Conciseness is not my virtue, so I expect to lose at least a third of the length in the process, though I did a lot of condensing on the fly this time, which is also a promising sign.)

Anyway, I am pleased. My computer (via a new iTunes alarm program) is now telling me I should go to bed via playing a carefully designed "go to bed now" playlist, so I'm going to do that. Tomorrow, I hope for more writing. (And ideally, this weekend, the article that has a deadline.)

In other news, I should have my contributor's copies of the 2010 Witch's Companion almanac early next week. Yay! w

Comments

[magentamn.livejournal.com]

I got my Llewellyn contributor's copies last week. Did you write for anything besides the Witch's Companion?

An i-Tunes alarm program - that sounds like a great idea. Do you think it would work on Martin's linux box, or is it an Apple only app?

[jenett]

We had a slight address glitch that delayed things, but no, just the Witch's Companion.

And the iTunes companion - the one I'm trying out currently is Alarm Clock Pro, which looks like it's Mac and Windows only, but I'm pretty sure there are variants out there that'll run on Linux.

Alarm Clock Pro is $20 - I've also tried iTunes Alarm, which was okay, but had less flexibility, which is why I'm trying Alarm Clock Pro for its trial period.

[suzimoses.livejournal.com]

The "go to bed" playlist is a fabulous idea. I shall have to ponder at that.

suzanne

[jenett]

We'll see how it works, but it seemed like it was worth trying - I'm trying to better build in cues for "Really. Bed now."

[meranthi.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, I like the idea of a go to bed playlist... T could *really* use one and it wouldn't be a bad idea for me either.