A standard piece of advice for writers is: write what you know. When you’ve only got a month to write a novel, that truism has a corollary: use everything that happens to you.
In order to meet the minimum 50,000 word length for National Novel Writing Month, I need to produce 1,700 words or so every day in November. On the first day, I wrote 2,821.
The arrival of November signals National Novel Writing Month (or NaNoWriMo), a project which challenges participants to write a complete novel of at least 50,000 words in a month. This year, Lifehacker will be taking part. Here’s why.
It’s been an interesting 17 days, but Election 2010 is more or less officially over with the news that a coalition of Labor, the Greens and three independents will, at least for now, be in control of the Federal Government. Whether you’re ecstatic or despondent, breathe out and then get on with the rest of your life. To help that process, here’s some projects to fill your time now that you’re not following every political move on Twitter.
Designer, creator of 9rules and blogger Paul Scrivens has started a lot of projects that didn’t quite pan out. Scrivens discusses how letting things die is important to moving toward your next success.
Online office suite Zoho enters the project management realm with a few attention-getting features. One is import support for Microsoft Project files, and another is a consolidate, real-time view of what’s going on with, and between, project members.
Taskbarn is a web-based project collaboration tool with a focus on ease of use, transparency, and feed-friendly updates.
If you’ve got a “someday” to-do list full of large, vague project ideas but the day you tackle even one of those projects just doesn’t seem to be coming, weblog LifeClever details how to start making incremental progress on your someday projects with a method the author calls triangulation. The idea is simple: block out just five minutes daily to your project, during which time you make three choices about the project. Each day you’ll be whittling your amorphous idea of a project into something with a definite form, which will hopefully make the project more immediately doable in turn. Got your own favorite methods for tackling those low priority someday projects? Let’s hear about ‘em in the comments. Decimate Those “Someday” Projects with Triangulation [LifeClever]
