Sound Writing Practices }{ AcWriMo 2013 }{ Week 4
This is my log for #AcWriMo 2013. You can read my guiding philosophy for the exercise here, and my lofty goals here. Now let’s get on with my accountability.
Nov. 25th
Week started with my 7 am Skype interview for a job overseas. I had stayed up late but was adequately prepared. I thought I’d take a nap afterwards but instead got some stuff done.
* 3 Pomodoros to get the next job application in – my 20th submission since Sept. 30th. Five more due by Friday…
* 2 Pomodoros reading a colleague’s dissertation intro draft and providing some comments.
* 30 minutes working on this blog post.
Nov. 26th
* 4 Pomodoros on the next job applicaiton – 2 more than I would have liked.
* 4 Pomodoros revising a chapter proposal for an anthology. Also 2 more than I would have liked.
Feeling frustrated that both of these tasks took twice as long as expected, meaning that it’s now 5 pm and I didn’t get in any work on my sample chapters. So although I hit my goal of 8 Pomodoros, I feel like I only got half of my day’s work done. I really need to get these chapters done by the end of next week, and it isn’t going to happen with this level of underestimation all the time.
Nov. 27th
* 5 hours non-Pomodoro work – pretty much straight through – on this evening’s guest lecture. That was my whole work day. While I was hoping to get a couple other things done, I’m happy at least that I didn’t let this occupy my mind until today, so in the end it’s only one day out of the week spent.
* 3 hours guest lecture and discussion group. It was fun!
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* Got home wired on one extra coffee so I’m up after putting the kids down to do a couple other tasks. 2 hours helping a colleague revise her book chapter abstract and working through her comments on mine.
Nov. 28th
* 4 Pomodoros on my book intro. Managed to write a 1,000 word set-up for the chapter, the part I’ve been struggling with most this month. So although I only hit half my desired time allotment for the day, I feel like the work was better than usual.
Nov. 29th
Today was a write-off (pun intended). Errands downtown consumed most of the day. I managed to get a few emails out of the way, so at least there’s that. But this means I’ll have to put some work time in on the weekend again…
Nov. 30th
* Two hours on the first of three remaining job applications due tomorrow.
* Two hours on my Week 3 post. Still spending way too much time on these…
* Two hours to finish the second of the job applications.
* Two hours late night on the Week 3 post and my chapter proposal for the anthology.
Dec. 1st
* Four hours more on that danged chapter proposal. Worked much longer on this than I had expected, back and forth with a couple of colleagues offering excellent advice. And I returned the favour by reading their submissions for the same anthology. Hopefully all the work pays off.
In: #AcWriMo, Academia, Writing about Sound