I often feel like I get nothing done. Usually once I think back on what I did in a day, that’s demonstrably not true. To prove it to myself, last weekend, a four-day weekend, I counted up how many tasks I checked off my to do list.

Items on the to do list and completed: 40
Items not on the to do list and completed: 16 (including installing new ( Read more... )

The blog is on holiday today, finishing up the last of the preparations for tomorrow.

Happy Thanksgiving to the Americans among you, and if you’re traveling, best wishes for a smooth trip. Also, make sure the turkey’s fully cooked. For you non-Americans, have a great Thursday tomorrow.

Random things I’m thankful for this year:

1) My garden - It’s ( Read more... )

Congrats to Anne and John! It was a lovely wedding, and a great time with family.

Random notes

* Dylan’s Candy Bar is big, but most of the candy is stuff you could find elsewhere. Still, fun to look at it all and imagine being seven and let loose in there.

* The Brooklyn Bridge is long.


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I’m definitely going back to Gen Con next year. I met a bunch of great people who I’m not going to list because I know I’d forget someone, bought books and a toy dalek for myself and some games for the kids in my family, attended interesting panels on writing and books which I’d be mining for blog posts for the next month if I’d taken better notes ( Read more... )

Since someone asked how I created my awesome magnetic whiteboard, here is how to make your own. (Step 7 is the key step.)

1. Read a blog post about how someone else uses their giant whiteboard to plot novels with big swoopy arrows or for some other cool purpose. Wish you weren’t a grad student and could afford one/had a wall to put it on. Repeat at ( Read more... )

Except not really, it’s still Friday unless I had time to edit this.

I’ve posted some takeaways from the conference at my tumblr. I heard some interesting talks, met some great people, and learned a lot. More details later…sometime.

Mirrored from Elizabeth Shack.

Good morning! I’m in Chicago through tomorrow for Web Content 2011. I had a great weekend, going to a talk and booksigning by Tamora Pierce, spending time with family, investigating the Field Museum, and now getting ready for a three-hour content strategy workshop…

Ok, actually it’s Friday evening and I’m scheduling this post even farther in the ( Read more... )

Just a quick note to say that I’m back from Beijing and have posted some photos of places and random things. (And of people, on Facebook.)

It was a great trip-wonderful family, interesting city, good food, and lots of fun sightseeing. I walked my feet off. (Shoes that are perfectly comfortable for wearing to work aren’t necessarily all right for ( Read more... )