Day jobs and sneaking writing in

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webpixi

66 pages

Posted
März 31, 2008 - 6:57am

Day jobs and sneaking writing in

I'm just curious, what do y'all do, and how will you sneak Frenzying into your job?

I teach at 2.5 schools (the online one starts 4/13 this month), and while 2 of them will have me doing a lot of grading, for one of them, I have the students do "write-o-rama" which is like a self-determined-goal'd Nano -- they can aim for 10K, and it'll still be more than they've written before, probably (though I urge 20K). So one of my sections has a "lab" -- during this lab in April/November, we just do write-ins and word-war challenges.

Also, for my other in-person school, I'm having the students research simple items that they chose -- I'm using these items as springboards for my short plays.

So what are y'all doing? Do you have excel spreadsheets with your characters you flip to when you're supposed to be running budget numbers? Write on the cups before you serve the customers?

lonedog80

24 pages

Posted
März 31, 2008 - 1:23pm

RE: Day jobs and sneaking writing in

I'm a Graphic Designer and I have the nice ability to open up a blank text file and write if I get an idea or something. I've caught myself, however, writing for hours at a time and not getting any "real" work done, but I have a lot of writing done LOL

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webpixi

66 pages

Posted
April 1, 2008 - 6:13am

RE: Day jobs and sneaking writing in

When I'm home, instead of writing or grading, I like to tell myself that reading comic books (up to X-men mid 2001) or watching MST3K (season 1) is giving me a deeper understanding of story structure.

This is why I need write-ins - where I can't just hide as a pirate, but peer pressure will be ON!

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Maryland Script Frenzy ML
95% of my word count (of Nanowrimo) was thanks to write-ins. Thank you!!