Blog UPDATES!!!

HI ALL!!!

    Well guess what?! I realized that my writing tools might be a lot more useful if they were editable forms instead of just printable forms. So there's a bit of a delay there. HOWEVER! I finally got around to creating the images and uploading the changes I've been wanting to make to this site for forever! These changes are reflective of exciting new changes coming along. Stay tuned for news about "the Writer's Red Pen."

NaNoWrimo - BUST ... Prioritizing and Support

    Well, I started out with the best of intentions, but November was just that; NO-vember. This was actually the first year that I have participated in NaNoWriMo where I did not reach my goal. A lot got done this month, yet nothing at all and very, very little actual writing. Most of the month was taken up by the one-turned-three week project that was the forced re-carpeting of our condo. Followed promptly by several separate invasions of 6 legged critters of the black ant persuasion - which in the 18 years of being in this house has only happened 6 times before and on much smaller scale, which has eaten up most of the days in-between. (We still haven't figured out why they decided, now that the place is the best it's looked in the last 6 years, that NOW was the time. No rain, not terribly cold or hot. No logical reason.) Still what writing (and writing related tasks) that did get done had significant impact and I feel that if priority had been given to NaNoWriMo (as in the past) and had I had the support to make that happen there was the potential for this to be the most productive NaNoWriMo EVER for me. But that did not happen and thus the subject of this post. So why?

NaNoWriMo - National Novel Writing Month

Hi all!

    Again I apologize for my absence but that little thing called life keeps getting in my way. Like the fact that our incredibly full house is being re-carpeted, painted outside, getting a new garage door, and a few other things. Timing couldn't be WORSE, the hubby's job is giving him grief for some personal illness issues, my work comp issue is flaring and I'm playing a game of hurry up and wait with the company and lawyers. But the timing though isn't ours to call - ah the joys of renting. But I can tell you that I am working on 20 new articles as I attempt to accomplish some of my personal goals. And speaking of personal goals, this month is National Novel Writing Month - 30 days, 50,000 words; sponsored by NaNoWriMo Organization. Which I have participated in (officially or non-officially for the last 6 years) and I will be participating again this year.

Base Repository Complete; the Crossroads - and Projects Update

Accomplished - Since 07/04/12

• Base Repository Completed

Well it's not as clean as I wanted it to be but it is done. I was down to my last two story series files, the corner stones if you will of the master series - yes I'm one of those sick David-Eddings-type people who not only writes within a "universe" but series within series, sometimes within series - and I realized that to whittle down those files any further it would mean me starting the writing process. So here I am standing on the threshold of where I've wanted to be for the last 4 years. I have so many directions I can go now. Where do I go now?

Projects - Accomplishments and Goals 06.13.12

Accomplished - Since 06/08/12

• Setup Starter Base Repository

Goals - 06/13/12


This next phase is where the true editor will kick in and will take some fair piece of time. When my laptop had that mishap in the hands of the Best Buy Geek Squad I was in the process of setting up files in for a base repository, so essentially I'm finally back to where I was 2 years ago when this started. Well, truth be told I'm a little farther ahead since I've actually achieved Base Repository. "What is the purpose of having a base repository?" you may ask. I wanted to set up a base repository because some of my stories I have been working on for over a decade, and with so many changes to the underlying plot I want to make sure not to back track story concepts that have already landed me at dead ends. Also if there are concepts that I've cut that might now work I'd like to resurrect them if they're good. Lord knows that there have been plenty of things I've cut that I didn't want to but did because it didn't gel with the current plot line, so we'll see if there's anything to salvage.

• Working on Base Repository
• Looking into types of Visual Version Control for file naming

Projects - Progress and Goals 06.08.12

Accomplished - Since 05/12/12

• Setting up files for Base Repository
• Posts:
• Back It Up! Part Two - a tale of almost woe.
• The Birth of a Book - Blog post share
• The wand which weaves; My Favorite Pen
• Started learning Git

Goals - 06/08/12

• Setting up Base Repository
• Looking into Visual Version Control

Projects - Progress and Goals 05.12.12

Accomplished - 05/11/12

• Completed file comparison of the Merger folder. 
• 82,571 files (30GB) down to 8,006 files (1.07GB)

Goals - 05/12/12

• Organization of the Merger folder.
• Starting Version Control and GIT post and setup.

Projects - Progress and Goals 05.10.12 *BIG ANNOUNCEMENT*

    IT'S DONE!!   I finished the Main folder! I have 3,113 files in the Secondary folder that need sorting but that actually can't be done until I get the Main folder reorganized. But I'm actually at the point where I can organize the main folder. When done with that I can create a new files set and actually start on the creative process again.


Accomplished - 05/10/12

• Main folder file comparison COMPLETE!
• Main and Secondary folders merged.
• Folder organization started.

Today's Goals - 05/11/12

• Organization and file comparison of the Merger folder. 7,043 files total. Whoo!!

Projects - Progress and Goals 05.09.12

    Omg it's been almost TWO MONTHS since I have actually sat down in front of my computer for more than a few seconds. Today should see some progress as I am working from the hubby's office today. I had, posted optimistically in April thinking that we were much closer to being done than we were with the housing situation. Was I wrong. We're still not done. But bodies, children and moms can only take so much for so long. So today I take a break from the physical and work on the digital.


Today's Goals - 05/13/12

• Resuming whittling away at the 1,435 files left in the most important folders to sort. There's light at the end of this tunnel, can I reach it today?

"Return of the Pixie" - or "Life Happens"

    It has been weeks since my last post. Unfortunately I have been unable to post because I've been spending my waking hours cleaning out the garage of 17years of accumulated crap of my own and my family's as well as prepping for a pending move closer to the coast; so my few free moments have gone to my daughter.

    One big bonus has come out of this though, in the process of all this cleaning I have found the majority of my had written notes and manuscripts for my projects; including art and diagrams, several dozen notebooks, and possibly thousands of loose papers. This has greatly inspired my creative juices and I'm very much looking forward to getting back to work. There is still some work left to do around here so things will still be limited until that is done but I'm hoping to get back to work on this before May.

    My short term goals are to finish the file sorting, take down my notes for the story ideas I've had over the last few weeks, catalog and subsequently archive the on paper works I've found.

    Future post plans include Office Supplies, Getting in the Groove techniques, My Writing Tools, to list a few. I'm very excited to share this next part of this journey with you.

Projects - Progress and Goals 3.14.12

Accomplished - 03/02/12

• Got Welcome/Under Construction pages up for my websites.

Today's Goals - 03/14/12

• Continuing to whittle away at the 1,435 files left in the most important folders to sort, OMG ALMOST done with the main folder ... light at the end of the tunnel!!!

Projects - Progress and Goals 3.1.12

Accomplished Yesterday - 02/29/12

• Completed my "File Comparison tools" post.
• Sorted 1217 files

Today's Goals - 03/01/12

• Continuing to whittle away at the 1,435 files left in the most important folders to sort, OMG ALMOST done with the main folder ... light at the end of the tunnel!!!

Projects - Progress and Goals 2.29.12

Today is leap-day. Tradition states do something you wouldn't normally do. Take a leap of faith. I think this year I'm just going to try to make it productive.


Accomplished Yesterday - 02/28/12

• Sorted through 809 files.
• Worked on File Comparison tools post.
• Worked on my Creative Writer's tools post.
• Updated some mistakes in the dates of posts.

Today's Goals - 02/29/12

• Continuing to whittle away at the 2,652 files left in the most important folders to sort.

Projects - Goals 2.28.12

I have been so busy I have accomplished little the last few days but hopefully I will make up for it today.

Today's Goals - 02/28/12

• Continuing to whittle away at the 3,461 files left in the most important folders to sort.
• Work on File Comparison tools post
• Work on my Creative Writer's tools post

Projects - Progress and Goals 2.24.12

Accomplished Yesterday - 02/23/12

• Completed my updated "About the Author" page.
• Worked on the File Comparison post - still not quite ready to publish it.
• Passed the halfway mark! Went through 315 files.

Today's Goals - 02/24/12

• Continuing to whittle away at the 3,461 files left in the most important folders to sort.

Projects - Progress and Goals 2.23.12

Accomplished Yesterday - 02/22/12

• Worked on Pages for blogs.

Today's Goals - 02/23/12

• Continuing to whittle away at the 3,776 files left in the most important folders to sort.
• Work on Pages for blogs. 

Projects - Progress and Goals 2.22.12

Accomplished Yesterday - 02/21/12

• Sorted 3,457 files! (160 files to reach halfway done!)
• Started on the Facebook page and setup email for Siren Society (Entertainment) which will be published once our act is together ... quite literally.
• Researched domain names for several projects.
• Finished Blog Page "Every Writer's Greatest Resource"
• Sorted 4,715 files into smaller folders for easier sorting.

Today's Goals - 02/22/12

• Continuing to whittle away at the 3,776 files left in the most important folders to sort.
• Finish Post for "Spirit of the Moment"
• Work on Pages for blogs.

Projects - Progress and Goals 2.21.12

Accomplished Last week - 02/17-19/12

• Setup and began 6 future posts for "A Novelist Idea!" 
• Setup several pages for "A Novelist Idea!" will be publishing then at a later date as they are also articles.
• Set up templates for certain posts.

Today's Goals - 02/21/12

• Continuing to whittle away at the 7,233 files in the most important folders to sort.
• Working on "[North] Pacific Siren Society" character back stories.
• Finish Post for "Spirit of the Moment"

Projects - Progress and Goals 2.17.12

Accomplished Yesterday - 02/16/12

• 3 blog post for "A Novelist Idea!"
• "Getting into the Groove"
• "Projects - Goals 2/16/12"
• And the first Process post; "Back It Up!"
• Finished the set up for my "Just So You Know" blog; though I got nothing published for it yet.
• Set up the mobile versions of this blog, "Just So You Know," "Spirit of the Moment," and my retired poetry blog - though that one was mostly for my own benefit.
• Updating Facebook Page - Personally I'm loving the new Timeline features.

Today's Goals - 02/17/12

• Continuing to whittle away at the 7,233 files in the most important folders to sort.
• Possible brainstorming for Time and Tides series.

Projects - Goals 2.16.12

Today's Goals

• Finishing setting up my other new blog: "Just So You Know"
• Updating Facebook stuff as a way to help focus - Loving the new Timeline features. People really need to give it a try.
• Whittling away at the 7,233 files in the most important folders to sort.

 ~ Claire