Several months ago, Bloglily wrote about planning and tagged several other bloggers to share their planning strategies. At the time, my dad had just been diagnosed with lung cancer, and she kindly exempted me from having to share my plan, which is good because I didn’t have one, other than just to get through from day to day.
Now that things have settled down somewhat on the family front, but are heating up on the work front, I am realizing that I do need to ramp up the planning, or I am absolutely doomed. Doomed, I tell you!!! Doomed to forget to practice yoga, doomed to let my novel take a backseat to planning lessons on Diego Rivera and pre-Columbian art, doomed to order takeout pizza instead of cooking well-balanced meals for my family, doomed to losing myself in reading blogs rather than writing. So over the weekend I decided to start to get my act together. I have completed step one: purchasing cute office supplies. Now for step two: using said supplies to make my life more organized. In the coming days, I plan (heh!) to figure out and discuss here exactly how my plan is going to go.
In the meantime, have a look at the fabulous Bloglily’s planning strategies at Yes, Virginia, There Is Such a Thing as Being Too Organized. I am so inspired by the fact that she is a lawyer, a writer, the mother of three sons AND she just snagged an agent for her new novel. If she can do all that, maybe I can too! I’ll keep you posted over the following week or so.
Entries for the toddler yoga book and kid’s yoga mat will be accepted over here until midnight tonight (April 14) MST!
April 14, 2008 at 3:52 pm
I haven’t met a writer yet who didn’t love office supplies! What’s your favorite? I loved paper clips with colored vinyl coatings.
April 14, 2008 at 6:56 pm
I’ve spent lots of time making special trips for the office supplies and doodads I absolutely need for my writing activities. Most of it sits unused because, frankly, all I really need is a good pen and ONE notebook. I find that owning more than notebook with blank pages totally screws me up too.
It’s better to be only as organized as is personally natural, I think. Too much messing around will bump you out of your optimum state.
April 15, 2008 at 8:51 am
I spend a lot of time planning. Now I need to learn how to follow the plan.
April 16, 2008 at 10:18 am
I’m with Carl — owning too many blank books can really freak you out. It’s as though they’re all staring at you, asking why you picked someone else to write in. Or else they’re suggesting that if you weren’t so lazy, you might have filled THEM up too.
But you can really never have too many fancy paperclips.