TEDIOUS TASKS FOR WRITERS
12th July, 2010 - Posted by Nancy Cohen - 3 Comments
Are there times when you feel brain dead or too tired to think straight? Never fear, you can still accomplish something by doing a mindless task. Here’s a list of boring jobs to do when you want to be productive without much mental effort.
Organize your Internet Bookmarks or Favorites
Verify that the links are still valid on your Favorites list
Verify that the links are still valid on your website
Update mailing lists and remove bounces and unsubscribes
Transfer files from floppies if you still have them to your hard drive or onto a DVD
Backup your files to other media
Email a file of your WIP to yourself at an online address you don’t use so often
Eliminate old files on computer that you no longer need
Clean out old materials from your office drawers
Erase old messages you don’t need to retain in Email folders
File papers in your To Be Filed stack
Do research for your next scene
Convert your old version word processing files into latest version on your computer
Search for and eliminate duplicate photos and files
Make sure your social network, website, and blog buttons are on each other’s sites
Update list of reviewers and bloggers who host guest interviews and blogs
Write blogs like this one
What else would you add?
Tags: creative writing, fiction, the writers life, writers
Posted on: July 12, 2010
Filed under: A Writer's Life
3 Comments
Mary Ricksen
July 12th, 2010 at 12:59 pm
I don’t know about anyone else, but Nancy what you do when your brain is not at it’s best, would require me to be at my best!
Ha!
You are such an organized and together and I really admire you. Just that you could do any of those things when your brain dead or tired, is simply amazing. I can’t do anything when my brain is tired.
When they say brain dead that would be me at times.
Carol Stephenson
July 12th, 2010 at 6:36 pm
Since I’m almost always brain dead when I get home from work, I usually do Facebook, respond to emails and anything else related to the business or social end of writing. If I’m taking an online workshop, it’s when I catch up on the lessons, posts & any exercises.
I’ll ponder about possible blog topics. My fav use of the time, though, is to research. I’m also trying to play with OneNote and learn more about all the uses of electronic notebooks.
Nancy Cohen
July 13th, 2010 at 7:59 am
Mary, I’ll bet you could do some of these things even when you’re tired. And Carol, hearing YOUR schedule makes me fatigued!
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