So I've finished my preliminary research for my memoir project, which involved reading old blog entries, printing out a year's worth of NPR Marketplace highlights and digging up my 2007 planner. Yay me. Now it's time to write the darn thing.
To help me stay focused, I'm going to keep a treadmill journal, which I read about in an old issue of Writer Magazine. The article's writer compares it to running on a treadmill to train for a marathon. Each day you make five entries:
1) The date and time.
2) How long you will work.
3) What you plan to work on.
4) How it went.
5) When you will work tomorrow and for how long.
(Yeah, it's another goal list, and I'm the one who made fun of lists three months ago. Sue me.)
Anyway, here is my journal entry for today. Ron is taking Benny to a birthday party this afternoon at Golden Gate Park.
1) May 15, 2010 — 9:31 a.m.
2) Write from 2 to 5 p.m.
3) Spread out all my research and work on rough outline for memoir.
4) Started an hour late; walked all over the Inner Sunset lugging my computer and ended up working at home. Worked on themes, thought about the plot and outlined opening chapters.
5) Tomorrow: noon to 3. Finish VERY rough outline of book.
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