Follow-Up: Official Write Your @ss Off

My official “Write Your @ss Off” day was Friday…but my glee at having eight hours of uninterrupted writerly stuff was crushed under the weight of nearly 30 inches of snow.

Not that I didn’t get anything done. I simply spread the eight hours of “to do” over the weekend, in between shoveling snow, enjoying hot cups of coffee and viewing a bit of the Superbowl. (Weren’t the commercials terrible this year? I swear I’m going to stop watching them…)

Here’s how my to-do list looks:

• Write an initial blog post, outlining my plans – Done!
• Write my daily minimum on my current WIP – I did work on this, I just didn’t meet my self-prescribed quota
• Write a duplicate amount on “something new” – Done!
• Update my Facebook Page – Done!
• Clean off the top of my desk…Oh, well…one can hope!

These were the extra activities I’d planned if there were time:

• Reply to my writer friends whose emails I still haven’t gotten to – Done! (Hi, Friends!)
• Update my Web page (minor changes) – Done!
• Organize my 2009 (Writing) Tax items
• Set up my 2010 (Writing) Tax Spreadsheets – Done!
• Read from one of the writing books I bought this year – Done!
• Write a summarizing blog post – (This is it!)

It turned out to be quite a productive weekend. I managed to do some other writerly stuff, too:

• Finalize details for a reading at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC in March.
• Agree to speak on marketing short fiction at a local writer’s group
• Dug out an old copy of “Writer’s Dreamkit 4” (software) and gave it a go on the “new” WIP. I was inspired to do this by a blog post by The Intern. (Her review is spot on if you want to give it a go…)

  I hope everyone else participating fared just as well!