{"id":157,"date":"2006-08-13T06:22:55","date_gmt":"2006-08-13T13:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scriniary.smallinfinity.net\/blog\/2006\/08\/13\/weekly-summaries-august-6\/"},"modified":"2006-08-13T06:22:55","modified_gmt":"2006-08-13T13:22:55","slug":"weekly-summaries-august-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/13\/weekly-summaries-august-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recent readings:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mjroseblog.typepad.com\/buzz_balls_hype\/2006\/08\/this_just_in_fl.html\">M.J. Rose questions whether blogs are an effective promotional technique<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Rachel Vater has been discussing the perils of writing in more than one genre, <a href=\"http:\/\/raleva31.livejournal.com\/8314.html?nc=9\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/raleva31.livejournal.com\/8022.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent readings:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mjroseblog.typepad.com\/buzz_balls_hype\/2006\/08\/this_just_in_fl.html\">M.J. Rose questions whether blogs are an effective promotional technique<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Rachel Vater has been discussing the perils of writing in more than one genre, <a href=\"http:\/\/raleva31.livejournal.com\/8314.html?nc=9\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/raleva31.livejournal.com\/8022.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/echosphere.net\/star_trek_insp\/star_trek_insp.html\">Star Trek motivational posters<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/flagrantdisregard.com\/flickr\/motivator.php\">Make your own motivational poster.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/08\/13\/arts\/music\/13gure.html\">On Tuesday, Sony Classical will release compositions by 14-year-old Jay Greenberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Goals for the week:<\/b> <\/p>\n<p><strike>Finish typing chapter 4<\/strike><br \/><strike>Play with the earlier chapters<\/strike><br \/><strike>3 days of exercise<\/strike> <\/p>\n<p><b>Novel Stats:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Made-up Deadline: 12\/31\/06 (needs to be changed.)<br \/>Current Wordcount: 18392 <font size=\"-2\">(two months ago: 18626. 24 hours ago: 19480.)<\/font> <br \/>Percentage (of 100k): 18<br \/>Words per Day Needed to Meet Deadline: 579 <font size=\"-2\">(two months ago: 403)<\/font><br \/>Current Average: 52 <font size=\"-2\">(two months ago: 64)<\/font><br \/>Projected Completion Date: 11\/29\/2010 <font size=\"-2\">(two months ago: 12\/13\/2009)<\/font> <\/p>\n<p>And people wonder why I complain about my slow progress.<\/p>\n<p><b>Writing Summary:<\/b> <\/p>\n<p>Saturday, since I was fighting with <i>Shadow Play<\/i>, I decided it&#8217;d be a good time to finally update my outline (it was stuck four or five chapters ago). Doing that reminded me that back in February, inspired by John Braine&#8217;s <i>How to Write a Novel<\/i>, <a href=\"http:\/\/pollyc.livejournal.com\/292412.html\">I tried and failed to write a synopsis of the book<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve decided to try the synopsis thing again. Maybe that will straighten out the book. If I can manage to write the synopsis this time. <\/p>\n<p><a name=\"cutid1\"><\/a><br \/>Got a lot done, considering I was visiting my family most of the week.<br \/><b>Sunday:<\/b> finished typing ch 4<br \/><b>Monday:<\/b> critting<br \/><b>Tuesday:<\/b> revised query letter<br \/><b>Wednesday:<\/b> typed all the revisions to ch 5-6<br \/><b>Thursday:<\/b> a bit of work on ch 9<br \/><b>Friday:<\/b> fun with queries<br \/><b>Saturday:<\/b> slash&#038;burn on chapter 1. updated outline. worked on synopsis.<\/p>\n<p><b>Exercise Summary:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"cutid2\"><\/a><br \/><b>Sunday:<\/b> none, busy<br \/><b>Monday:<\/b> none, lazy<br \/><b>Tuesday:<\/b> jog\/walk, 30 min<br \/><b>Wednesday:<\/b> none, lazy<br \/><b>Thursday:<\/b> none, busy (flying)\/lazy<br \/><b>Friday:<\/b> ~30 min. tried the Christi Taylor I didn&#8217;t like again; got bored after 20 min and started the strength workout on the same dvd; got tired and quit.<br \/><b>Saturday:<\/b> ~60 min: Christi Taylor&#8217;s Strength, Balance, and Flexibility<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>This week:  will be busy. <\/p>\n<p>Attempt synopsis of <i>Shadow Play<\/i><br \/>3 days of exercise<br \/>Pack a few boxes of books <a href=\"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/13\/weekly-summaries-august-6\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}