Calendars

[alanajoli]

This is about the time of year when it occurs to me that I actually need to start marking time in 2009. In part, this is because our library has Sunday hours for the school year, so we volunteer to work shifts on Sundays, usually one a month or so, right around now. To do this well, it requires actually having some idea about how the next year is going to work--or at least making sure you mark down in advance what dates it is you've volunteered for.

When I was at MythCon, I just barely missed being able to purchase a Ted Nasmith calendar for 2009. (Nasmith is known for his Tolkien art, which is, in my opinion, fantastic.) They'd sold out on the first day, which is no real surprise, and it is not yet available in stores. Strike out on that one. Yesterday, however, I discovered that Lindsay Archer (whom I've raved about numerous times) has a calendar available at her DeviantArt site. Eureka! Now I can actually plan ahead for those deadlines I hope to have in 2009.

For those of you with writing deadlines: how do you keep track of them? I started with a planner and ended up finding that a wall calendar, where I can see a month at a shot, ended up working better for me. Any ingenious organizational strategies out there I haven't contemplated?

---

Reading Souls in Silicon, by Jeff Duntemann Lulu

Writing "Head above Water," and adventure for LFR, Cormyr (by portion)

Comments

[bccreations.livejournal.com]

Wait, am I reading this correctly? You wrote 1 word today?

[alanajoli.livejournal.com]

*laugh* No. I can't figure out how to get it to change "words" to, say, "sections" or "encounters" or (for the comic) "pages." So I'm trying, in the title space, to specify what segment I'm actually talking about.

[bccreations.livejournal.com]

That explains why your total word goal was only 6. I thought you were trying to write a 6-word story and couldn't get past the first word. This would have been bad on your part. :P