Productive!

I felt productive at work today! I spent the entire day working on SQL stored procedures for importing data.  Pretty routine work, but I did some innovative validation stuff, that should make it easier for a person to validate the data that gets imported into the database.  I was in good flow and both the morning [...]

Writing and reading

Jim Gunn, instructor for the writing workshop, gave us his critiques of our first scenes last night, and he had some good insights into mine, as did everyone else in the group.  I started the scene too early in the story.  After reading through everyone else’s comments, I sat down for a little over an [...]

Hump-day

Busy day at the office today. At one point during the day, I think I was doing 5 things at once. I was in a phone meeting, eating a sandwich, replying to an urgent email, participating in a IM meeting, and jotting notes on my whiteboard, all more or less at the same time. A [...]

Workshopping and working

Up at 6:30 after a good night’s sleep and into the office a little while later. It wasn’t a terribly busy day at the office, but there was still stuff to do. I did 5 of 6 workshop critiques that came in today. The sixth one came in late this evening and I won’t get [...]

Softball party

Late start today, which I hope to remedy tomorrow. I think part of the problem is that there is no clock in view when I am sleeping, so I just keep sleeping as long as I possibly can. I am much more disciplined when I can see a clock. Busy day at work. I spent [...]

Monday wrap-up

I think Kelly and I are both recovering from our weekend. We both felt tired throughout the day. I took a lunchtime name that lasted nearly an hour! Headed home at 4 PM and did a bunch of critiques for the writing workshop. Kelly called around 5:20 and I headed to pick her up. We [...]

Writer’s workshop!

Through the auspices of will_couvillier, who helped to arrange it, I will be participating in an on-line writer’s workshop this summer run by Grand Master of Science Fiction, James Gunn! The goal of the workshop is to produce one publishable story. I’m so excited about doing this. I’ve never participated in a writer’s workshop before [...]

Finished my critiques

After an incredibly busy and fragmented day at work, I finished the last of my critiques for the writing group this evening. Now I can get back to working on my own stuff. I’m plugging away at the outline for NextLife but I am also tempted to do some work on “If By Reason of [...]

More workshop critiques

I ended up doing a second workshop story critique last night instead of working on my own writing because I felt I needed to get it out of the way. I still have one more to do before Sunday when the group meets. As it turns out, I wrote a total of about 3,600 words [...]

Workshop critiques

I spent the early part of the evening at my “second job”, namely writing. I wasn’t actually working on anything of mine. I’ll get to that a little later this evening. Instead, I wrote the first of a couple of story critiques for the writer’s workshop that I joined after Ravencon. The next meeting is [...]

First critters critique

I submitted my first critique for a story in the Critter’s writing workshop this evening. Critiques are due by Wednesday so I got mine in just under the wire. I think I did a pretty good job overall. For a critique to count for credit, it has to be at least 200 words. Documentaion says [...]

Critters!

I received my membership information for the Critters writer’s workshop this morning. Along with it were 3 stories to read and critique. Before I got out of bed this morning I read the shortest one (and the only one that was fantasy, instead of science fiction). I need to write and submit a critique for [...]

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