I was really tired but couldn't put myself in bed till ten-thirty last night so I planned to sleep in till 6:30 and only write a thousand words. Instead I slept till almost 6, had a slow start of fooling around, and wrote about 1700 words for chapter total of 4500 and I guess a book total of 20 700. Took me an hour and a half to get those words on the screen, so I'm still running an overall average of about 1200 words an hour. Why do I care? because I'm finally interested in organizing my writing time so that it is efficient. I know that more words isn't always better. But I figure I write better when I'm revising anyway, usually, so the key is to have a good bit to revise. And of course, it's properly backed up to the latest word.
A feature of Googledocs is that you can upload a file repeatedly and it doesn't overwrite, you get different copies distinguished by the timestamp. This is good for tracking changes in different versions. I don't care to do that, so when I upload a file and it's the same chapter as the one before it, I manually delete the old version right away so I don't have to go reading timestamps later.
I found a stationary bike on craigslist and made an offer. I used to be sort of set against stationary bikes -- I figured if I was pedaling, why not go somewhere? But I need to be able to set the thing to way way easy at first to gently stretch the tight ligaments before I am interested in strengthening the muscles even. So I'm following the doctor's orders to the letter as much as I can. Yesterday my knee was aching when I left work, and that is just really really dumb. I spend the most of my day moving round from one sitting position to another, it's not that hard. I don't sit still and I don't run and I know how to lift (and anyway the heaviest child in the infant-toddler group is probably forty pounds, and she can climb the diaper ladder on her own: she doesn't really need to be lifted at all).
On another front, I complained that the articles in the "Young Child" magazine which are labelled as being about infants and toddles sound like they're being written about advanced three-year-olds, and my boss said they probably are because there are hardly any programs like ours which deal with infants per se, and the label "toddlers" includes three-year-olds.
That means . . . nobody's writing professional articles about what we do. Hmm . . .
A feature of Googledocs is that you can upload a file repeatedly and it doesn't overwrite, you get different copies distinguished by the timestamp. This is good for tracking changes in different versions. I don't care to do that, so when I upload a file and it's the same chapter as the one before it, I manually delete the old version right away so I don't have to go reading timestamps later.
I found a stationary bike on craigslist and made an offer. I used to be sort of set against stationary bikes -- I figured if I was pedaling, why not go somewhere? But I need to be able to set the thing to way way easy at first to gently stretch the tight ligaments before I am interested in strengthening the muscles even. So I'm following the doctor's orders to the letter as much as I can. Yesterday my knee was aching when I left work, and that is just really really dumb. I spend the most of my day moving round from one sitting position to another, it's not that hard. I don't sit still and I don't run and I know how to lift (and anyway the heaviest child in the infant-toddler group is probably forty pounds, and she can climb the diaper ladder on her own: she doesn't really need to be lifted at all).
On another front, I complained that the articles in the "Young Child" magazine which are labelled as being about infants and toddles sound like they're being written about advanced three-year-olds, and my boss said they probably are because there are hardly any programs like ours which deal with infants per se, and the label "toddlers" includes three-year-olds.
That means . . . nobody's writing professional articles about what we do. Hmm . . .
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