Work on Thursday 3-2

Work in Progress: NO RELATION
Status: Research/Planning
New Words: 3/2 #0
Planned Interruptions: child at home
Comments: Used kids at home as break, instead did mental planning of next chapter, some research on character traits, and catch up on house projects

March 1

Work in Progress: piano book translation

Status: writing

Goal: finish part 2 by end of weekend

Columns completed today: 2+

Creative Assistance: blueberry tea, Elton John

Planned Interruptions: child at home (school vacation), 2 loads of laundry

Unplanned Interruptions: John's Simpsons puzzle (damn him and my puzzle-love!)

Feeling: self-flagellating, depressed, ashamed

Comments: this is a big honkin' book, so one column is basically one page of a normal book, so I'll track my progress in terms of book-columns (input) or handwritten pages (output)

Kee and I came up with the idea of using this blog as a way of adding a layer of accountability, so to speak, to a job that is essentially us, sitting alone and working away at our projects. So I think I will kick off my contributions to this blog with a list of dirty laundry. Here are all the writing projects I have piling up around here:

Projects I Work On Even When I Should Be Doing Other Things:
my other blog

Projects I Am Being Paid To Do:
translating a book on piano technique (in-progess)

editing a book on the brain (waiting for the last few chapters)

Projects For School (In German):
a 2-page assignment on how we describe the space around us (due April 1)

a 30-page paper on suppletion for a qualifying exam in linguistics (due in July)

Creative Writing Projects Currently Floating Around In My Head and In Notebooks I Drag Around With Me Everywhere:
a children's book (possibly series) on moving abroad

a short story titled "Dirty Work" about a dwarf with bad luck

a short story titled "Late Night Radio" about a call-in advice show in a world with a fantasy twist

Creative Writing Projects Currently Stuffed Under My Bed Until Further Inspiration Strikes:
a Cinderella story

bits and pieces of a fantasy novel

notes for a story about a dragon with a secret princess-magazine addiction

Work in Progress: NO RELATION
Status: Writing-From the gut
Start Date: 2-24-06
Goal: at this point-writing what's in my head until I run out
Format: novel
Words to Date: 4345
New Words: 2/24 #477
2/27 #830
2/28 #1636
3/1 #1402 Chapter one-complete
Creative Assistance: coffee, Bolero on repeat
Planned Interruptions: child at home
Unplanned Interruptions: last-minute field trip, mild heart problems induced by writing related stress over another project
Feeling: can't get it out fast enough
Comments: Recent idea for topic, pursued as means of escape from other project (see heart problems above), planning to work on both simulatneously, maybe will help with both projects. Accountability and scheduling seem to be having positive impact.

February 28

Work in Progress: piano book


Status: writing
Start Date: sometime in the fall
Goal: end of April
Format: non-fiction book translation
Creative Assistance: coffee, Depeche Mode, George Michaels
Feeling: mildly optimistic
Comments: wrestled with some vocabulary. Reviewed 69 hand-written pages.

Test 1

Work in Progress: Title


Status: Writing, Editing, Revising, First Draft, Second Draft
Start Date: date
Goal: end date, shop to agent/publisher
Format: short story, novel, non-fiction book translation
Words to Date: number
New Words: number
Creative Assistance: coffee, music
Feeling: happy dancing, self-flagellation
Comments: more details on work