Sunday, December 31, 2006
Happy New Literary Year!
Happy New Year!
Let's see ... is this the year you'll finish your novel? It could well be!
Short of entering into NaNoWriMo in November (see a previous blog entry by Rick Bylina for a description of this event/experience), what you can do is carve out time and set yourself some rasonable deadlines to get them accomplished.
For many people, procrastination is New Year's resolutions' worst enemy. It’s such a popular one that it’s made the news: an MIT professor found that when he allowed his students to give themselves their own homework deadlines, they would artificially restrict themselves to counter procrastination – though they did not set deadlines for optimal effectiveness. The professor’s comments and the study itself can be found here.
So set yourself deadlines that you actually can meet, and you'll find, perhaps, that 2007 is your year! And then you'll be ... beyond the elements of style!
Jeannette Cézanne
Customline Wordware, Inc.
Let's see ... is this the year you'll finish your novel? It could well be!
Short of entering into NaNoWriMo in November (see a previous blog entry by Rick Bylina for a description of this event/experience), what you can do is carve out time and set yourself some rasonable deadlines to get them accomplished.
For many people, procrastination is New Year's resolutions' worst enemy. It’s such a popular one that it’s made the news: an MIT professor found that when he allowed his students to give themselves their own homework deadlines, they would artificially restrict themselves to counter procrastination – though they did not set deadlines for optimal effectiveness. The professor’s comments and the study itself can be found here.
So set yourself deadlines that you actually can meet, and you'll find, perhaps, that 2007 is your year! And then you'll be ... beyond the elements of style!
Jeannette Cézanne
Customline Wordware, Inc.
