by Katherine Villyard | May 30, 2012 | procrastination
Lunchtime and right before I leave work are apparently not-so-much times for writing. I think it’s because, as Douglas Adams said, “Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.” I’ve been resisting writing in the mornings because I’m...
by Katherine Villyard | May 17, 2012 | procrastination, writing stats
Not only am I using Write or Die, I’ve also started posting daily stats to Twitter. In addition to boring numbers, you get completely out-of-context sentences. You can help! You can mock when I fail to tweet! Okay, maybe not. I need positive reinforcement. I...
by Katherine Villyard | Apr 29, 2012 | procrastination
Hi, my name is Katherine and I’m a metrics junkie. I have an outline spreadsheet based on the Snowflake method to which I’ve added wordcount secret sauce formulas. I downloaded it for NaNoWriMo many years ago. I then have a tab that’s nothing but...
by Katherine Villyard | Dec 6, 2008 | novels, procrastination
It’s not that I don’t want to write. It’s not that I don’t enjoy it. It’s that I’m tired. What I don’t get is that I’m writing less now than I was during the email migration. Argh! On the other hand, my spreadsheet of...
by Katherine Villyard | Nov 24, 2008 | procrastination
Email migration hell has been over for a couple of months, and yet I’m not writing every day. I did get a galley of a story and am wandering over from time to time to see if my story’s out yet, but other than that… I need to do something about that....
by Katherine Villyard | Dec 28, 2007 | cats, life, the universe, and everything, procrastination
This is one of them. I was last at work on December 21. I’m not expected back until after New Year’s. You may now hate me. 😉 Sadly, this is not ending up being insane amounts of writing and working out. But I had a very busy year, and probably need the...
by Katherine Villyard | Aug 1, 2006 | procrastination
I got it from Jen; can I blame her for my posting a quiz? 😉 http://www.scifi.com/sfw/column/sfw13339.html I got an 80. “A score of 66 or higher—You’re a E.E. ‘Doc’ Smith, Larry Niven, Greg Bear, Vernor Vinge, Charles Stross or Nancy...
by Katherine Villyard | Jun 5, 2006 | novels, procrastination, scripts
I’m kind of… …not writing. I suspect I’m less well prepared for my novel than I thought I was–I’ve been opening the document file and staring at it and closing it without adding anything new. Perhaps making the outline a bit clearer...
by Katherine Villyard | Apr 15, 2006 | geekiness, procrastination, scripts
No, really! You believe me, don’t you? Yeah, well. Maybe you shouldn’t. I’m tired, and stressed out, and have a headache, and, you know, insert a million more excuses to not write here. I’m doing better with exercise, but exercise is easier...
by Katherine Villyard | Apr 13, 2006 | geekiness, procrastination
I was stressed out after work last night, so I decided to unwind by converting my site from XHTML Traditional to XHTML Strict. *facepalm* The most obnoxious part was going back and finding invalid markup in old entries and changing it. I think I’ve found it all....