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Everybody reading knows about D&D alignments, yes? Law and Chaos on one axis, Good and Evil on the other. As a moral framework, this is absurdly simplistic, but does give us the advantage of a structure with which to disagree. My character Bob, for example, has a morality based on Don't Do Evil and Don't Get Caught, which doesn't fit on that graph. And which rule is more important varies from moment to moment.
I did write a chapter in the Convenience Store story yesterday; I'm not bothering you with it because I'm throwing it out. It stank, which is a difficult feat to master on an LCD display. This is where Bob showed up. I'm keeping *him*, but he needs a new chapter to appear in.
And I need a new set of habits to keep me productive. That I was unproductive this afternoon I don't really care about; when it's 100F and there's no air conditioning, sitting around and sweating is the activity of the moment. But I *can* do better and I *want* to do better, and the only reliable tool I have at the moment is the internet, which if you're reading this includes you by extension.
I *could* have taken a paper pad and a pen down to the library and written there where there's air conditioning, and then transcribed my product into a browser the next time one came available, for example. Too late now; I didn't. Or I could have started being productive when I woke up at 3am, such that when noon rolled around and it got too hot to concentrate I felt good about having already gotten a day's work done and fine about lying down for a nap. Didn't do that either.
I'm not waiting for morning; I'm starting *now*. I'll get done writing to y'all, hope somebody's moved enough to comment, grab a glass of ice water, assemble my active project list, pick one that motivates me, and get to work. My objective is to put in four solid hours before taking a break, which to me means either one chapter of story, or two letters completed and sent. Or more if I can manage it; my benchmarks aren't yet thoroughly defined. They'll get that way.
I'd *like* to have enough energy to take a dinner break at that point and then put in another four-hour watch. I'm not going to *plan* that, though; the *plan* is to reassess at the end of the first watch. Maybe I'll need to sleep. Or shower, or eat, or amuse myself for a while.
The core of the structure I'm devising is that work occurs in four-hour watches, and I can start one at any time, and my *objective* is to Get Work Done. I'll keep an Active Project List so I have a catalog available on which to work, but that's a tool, not fundamental structure. The fundamental structure is Get Stuff Done In Four-Hour Shifts.
More later about Get *what* Done, and *why*.
I did write a chapter in the Convenience Store story yesterday; I'm not bothering you with it because I'm throwing it out. It stank, which is a difficult feat to master on an LCD display. This is where Bob showed up. I'm keeping *him*, but he needs a new chapter to appear in.
And I need a new set of habits to keep me productive. That I was unproductive this afternoon I don't really care about; when it's 100F and there's no air conditioning, sitting around and sweating is the activity of the moment. But I *can* do better and I *want* to do better, and the only reliable tool I have at the moment is the internet, which if you're reading this includes you by extension.
I *could* have taken a paper pad and a pen down to the library and written there where there's air conditioning, and then transcribed my product into a browser the next time one came available, for example. Too late now; I didn't. Or I could have started being productive when I woke up at 3am, such that when noon rolled around and it got too hot to concentrate I felt good about having already gotten a day's work done and fine about lying down for a nap. Didn't do that either.
I'm not waiting for morning; I'm starting *now*. I'll get done writing to y'all, hope somebody's moved enough to comment, grab a glass of ice water, assemble my active project list, pick one that motivates me, and get to work. My objective is to put in four solid hours before taking a break, which to me means either one chapter of story, or two letters completed and sent. Or more if I can manage it; my benchmarks aren't yet thoroughly defined. They'll get that way.
I'd *like* to have enough energy to take a dinner break at that point and then put in another four-hour watch. I'm not going to *plan* that, though; the *plan* is to reassess at the end of the first watch. Maybe I'll need to sleep. Or shower, or eat, or amuse myself for a while.
The core of the structure I'm devising is that work occurs in four-hour watches, and I can start one at any time, and my *objective* is to Get Work Done. I'll keep an Active Project List so I have a catalog available on which to work, but that's a tool, not fundamental structure. The fundamental structure is Get Stuff Done In Four-Hour Shifts.
More later about Get *what* Done, and *why*.
