Research again, five and a half hours worth.  Not what I had planned for the day, and it was a shortened day because of a social engagement.  But five and a half hours of research is better than nothing!

Tomorrow I'll use the plan proposed for today: an hour on each of my four priority projects.

I put seven hours in today.  Most of it was research time for a project that will mix fiction and non-fiction.  More later, when some of the fiction arrives in the mailboxes of subscribers!

I have four priority projects to work on.  My plan for tomorrow is to put an hour in on each of them, and then spend the rest of the day working on the novel.

I wrote a chapter yesterday, e-mailed it to my novel subscribers today, and spent most of today on research for a London writing project, which I'll describe in more detail later ( Read more... )

I'm back in London after a few days in Vienna, where I read at Vienna Lit 2008 and gave a lecture to a literature class at the University of Vienna.

In the lecture, I talked about the various methods I have for getting ideas.  I took out the index card that I had been writing on the evening before and read out the notes I had made regarding things I ( Read more... )

Last Sunday, I spent an hour walking a Labyrinth. http://www.labyrinthuk.org/page3.htmRead more... )

I had an experience yesterday that told me I was spiritually ailing. For the last couple of weeks, I have been physically ill. I see the doctor day after tomorrow, and I'm almost hoping for a diagnosis of walking pneumonia so I at least can say, "Well, no wonder I've had such a difficult time ( Read more... )

Sorting through tax records that I got rather sloppy with in 2007 has been absorbing a lot of time, but I have been writing a little every day, too.

Today's a day of more taxes and a short local trip to meet my Polish translator in London. I will get some writing done, too!

Well, I did get back to work on the novel today. I revised and emailed two chapters of Steam to my novel subscribers. I don't know how long I was at work though, because once I started, I forgot about setting the timer ( Read more... )

Back in the saddle at noon today. I'll report later on hours of writing.

A burglar was lucky enough to pick exactly the right half hour in which to case our flat yesterday, the one time when we were out and our downstairs neighbors were out, too. Holly and I returned home to find our back door in pieces and our computers gone ( Read more... )