A glimpse of the wall of doom

I have begun to post an ever-increasing amount of pages on the wall where I generally write, in order to easily access information without tying up my hands. One of the downsides to putting your computer on a stand barely bigger than your laptop is that there's nowhere else to put papers.

I imagine that I'll be adding yet more pages in times to come.

This is the list that I printed off to keep track of what I needed to do in my off/prep-month. "Vocab?" is in reference to the idea of printing off a sheet or two of words that I want to add to my vocabulary or that I think might be useful in a particular situation. 

As you can see I'm continually making notes, rearranging when something's getting done, etc. If something is circled then that means that it's not a high priority and doesn't necessarily have to get done this month. 

This is the sheet that I made use of while I was working on some of the articles for the Culture Column. Now that I took the pictures, in accordance with the note at the bottom of the page, I guess it's time to retire the page to free up space for more important things. 

The on/crazy-month's counterpart to the first page, I suppose. Going top to bottom, left to right: The first list (1-9, Finding Ginny, etc) listed the stories that I had already completed by the time that I first made this list. The second list (1-9, all scribbled out) is the list of stories that I was working on in order to hit fifteen stories. The third list (1-9, Irem, etc) is a list of culture column articles that I was planning. The to-do list made that obsolete. The mini-calendar to the left kept me aware of how many days were left until the end of the month. As you can see I didn't always check the days off. The last list, titled "Stories Outlined," is keeping track of the stories that I have outlined in preparation for the coming on/crazy-month. I aim to have twenty outlines, as you can see. 

Productivity Report

Did pretty well this past week, all things considered. Only 47 poems submitted, but that's alright. Also didn't expand the card catalog, but this weeks submissions showed that I actually have a large enough selection for now. I don't really need another twenty non-paying markets in the list just yet and I've got most, if not all, of the professional rate markets.

The blog is filled out for stories up through the first full week of April. I may or may not write another one. By the end of today [writing on Saturday] I should have gotten an idea of which stories I'm going to be outlining over the next two weeks.

Besides the tasks written out at the beginning of the week I also got two shiny published stories to review. I should have the first book finished and reviewed by the end of the month. I've also begun planning a little bit for a Lovecraftian toolkit PDF for gaming and writing, getting the basic structure figured out and asking people at RPG.net what they'd like to see.

This coming week it's looking like:

• Monday: Create three Useful Notes PDFs and the So You Want To PDF. Shoot an email to see if they'd mind me putting a link up on TV Tropes to the PDFs. Write So You Want To Write the Next HPMOR and shoot it to Eliezer Yudkowsky for props or anti-props, as the case may be. 
• Tuesday: Do a little more uploading of fanfiction (ficwad, etc). Restructure White Marble Block. Clean out the bookmarks. Clean out my files a little more. 
• Wednesday: Clean out email account. A story outline. Flesh out some fanfic seeds (a paragraph where there is none, doubled length where there is). After all that's done and I've read some stories for review purposes, see how much I can do on the Unlikely outline. It'd be great if I could get the outline down pat enough that, come next off/prep-month, I can take a five-day to sit down (or stand, as the case may be) and churn out 20-25,000 words and get it all done then. Assuming I update it every week and every other week includes an additional story, that's eleven weeks (22 chapters total) that have their stories taken care of. 
• Thursday: One or two Culture Column articles. A story outline, possibly but not probably. 
• Friday: Arrange for guest posts for White Marble Block. One or two story outlines. 
• Saturday: Take a day off to heal. 

Scattered throughout, I'll also be reading and reviewing all sorts of stories, some on Absolute Write and at least one of the published stories that was sent to me.