Comments on: Writing Power’s Writers’ Circle: April http://blog.writingpower.net/2008/04/04/writing-powers-writers-circle-april/ write better, live better Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:24:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Writing Power Writers' Circle April Update: Reality Check Edition | Writing Power http://blog.writingpower.net/2008/04/04/writing-powers-writers-circle-april/#comment-373 Writing Power Writers' Circle April Update: Reality Check Edition | Writing Power Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:33:57 +0000 http://blog.writingpower.net/2008/04/04/writing-powers-writers-circle-april/#comment-373 [...] my last Writers’ Circle post, I asked our writers to report on whether they achieved their March writing goals and what they had [...] […] my last Writers’ Circle post, I asked our writers to report on whether they achieved their March writing goals and what they had […]

]]> By: loren http://blog.writingpower.net/2008/04/04/writing-powers-writers-circle-april/#comment-360 loren Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:28:21 +0000 http://blog.writingpower.net/2008/04/04/writing-powers-writers-circle-april/#comment-360 Great plan, Adam. And thanks for the nudge...it occured to me after I posted this that I ought to include an update of my progress. I'll get on it! :) What about everyone else? Great plan, Adam. And thanks for the nudge…it occured to me after I posted this that I ought to include an update of my progress. I’ll get on it! :)

What about everyone else?

]]> By: Adam http://blog.writingpower.net/2008/04/04/writing-powers-writers-circle-april/#comment-351 Adam Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:25:22 +0000 http://blog.writingpower.net/2008/04/04/writing-powers-writers-circle-april/#comment-351 I'm honestly surprised that there aren't any comments yet... I put off posting this out of a little bit of guilt. I didn't meet all of my goals for March. I have a good excuse, though... I changed my goals mid-way through. Then again, that is just an excuse. I missed my goals. I wanted to have my website up and running with a good start of a tutorial available by now (being the end of the first week of April), but all I have available now are three updates saying that more is coming, and one of the updates is a lesson in planning for your goals. It isn't a total failure, but it isn't a success either. (There are no total failures as long as we keep moving forward, I'm often told.) My goal for April is to get my web site ready for launch in May. Since my topic is on developing software, I have a bit more work to do besides writing prose; I must also write code. Also, since my first long-term goal for the site is to educate people on how to make a website like mine, I have to create my site from scratch... If I'm teaching people how to make wheels, I'd better have made my own wheel first, right? So, as for my goals in April, I am scaling back on the prose and concentrating on the code. Here are my benchmarks: 1st week: Database design complete (and is already complete... I already succeeded with that goal). 2nd week: Move existing articles into database. Write three additional pages of prose. (So far, so good.) 3rd week: Write the interface between the database and the site visitors... Heavy coding... writing prose will be on complete hold. (I'm sure the scribes of ancient Egypt had to put their writing on hold while making their inks and papyrus scrolls.) 4th week: Debug the code. Adding features to the code will be on complete hold, only concentrating on fixing bugs. Will also write <em>at least</em> 5 pages of prose. May, 1st week: Plan the back-end interface, so that I can easily add new pages and new articles without having to muck about with the database directly. Edit existing pages, and plan the final pages. I'm curious about everybody else's progress... And Loren, you haven't shared your goals and achievements yet... --hint-- ;) I’m honestly surprised that there aren’t any comments yet…

I put off posting this out of a little bit of guilt. I didn’t meet all of my goals for March.

I have a good excuse, though… I changed my goals mid-way through.

Then again, that is just an excuse. I missed my goals.

I wanted to have my website up and running with a good start of a tutorial available by now (being the end of the first week of April), but all I have available now are three updates saying that more is coming, and one of the updates is a lesson in planning for your goals.

It isn’t a total failure, but it isn’t a success either. (There are no total failures as long as we keep moving forward, I’m often told.)

My goal for April is to get my web site ready for launch in May. Since my topic is on developing software, I have a bit more work to do besides writing prose; I must also write code. Also, since my first long-term goal for the site is to educate people on how to make a website like mine, I have to create my site from scratch… If I’m teaching people how to make wheels, I’d better have made my own wheel first, right?

So, as for my goals in April, I am scaling back on the prose and concentrating on the code. Here are my benchmarks:

1st week: Database design complete (and is already complete… I already succeeded with that goal).

2nd week: Move existing articles into database. Write three additional pages of prose. (So far, so good.)

3rd week: Write the interface between the database and the site visitors… Heavy coding… writing prose will be on complete hold. (I’m sure the scribes of ancient Egypt had to put their writing on hold while making their inks and papyrus scrolls.)

4th week: Debug the code. Adding features to the code will be on complete hold, only concentrating on fixing bugs. Will also write at least 5 pages of prose.

May, 1st week: Plan the back-end interface, so that I can easily add new pages and new articles without having to muck about with the database directly. Edit existing pages, and plan the final pages.

I’m curious about everybody else’s progress… And Loren, you haven’t shared your goals and achievements yet… –hint– ;)

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