{"id":370,"date":"2012-05-14T21:49:33","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T01:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/?p=370"},"modified":"2012-05-14T23:02:46","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T03:02:46","slug":"day-8-progress-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/2012\/05\/day-8-progress-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 8: Progress Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Warning: bit of a boring show today &#8212; just plans and record keeping.<\/p>\n<h2>Learned, Keep, Start, Stop<\/h2>\n<p>I&#8217;ve completed one week of blogging each day. What have I learned, what should I keep doing, what should I start doing, and what should I stop doing?<\/p>\n<h3>I&#8217;ve Learned<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Things may fall into place easily, or take a lot of effort. No pattern yet.<\/li>\n<li>Starting after 10:00 PM means I won&#8217;t finish until after midnight.<\/li>\n<li>My best posts have specific messages to deliver.<\/li>\n<li>Cut things that don&#8217;t need to be said.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Keep<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Blogging.<\/li>\n<li>Trying to get exposure to topics which give me reasons to blog.<\/li>\n<li>Thinking about the post earlier and earlier in the day.<\/li>\n<li>Meticulously editing things. Thanks to Robyn for some inspiration here.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Start<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Writing as soon as I start thinking.<\/li>\n<li>Thinking earlier &#8212; days in advance, not hours in advance.<\/li>\n<li>Trying not to let this mess up my bed time.<\/li>\n<li>Learning so that I can explain, instead of learning for its own sake.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Stop<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Worrying about correctness. I tend to be wrong anyway, so why work so hard at it?<\/li>\n<li>Quitting on topics that I don&#8217;t feel like writing about at the moment.<\/li>\n<li>Trying to trick myself into starting new focus items (things to do for 21 days) early.<\/li>\n<li>Trying to accomplish too much, and thinking about what I haven&#8217;t accomplished.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Summary, or Commentary, or something<\/h2>\n<p>That&#8217;s all just sticks in the sand. I don&#8217;t (yet) have any metrics to base these on, so it&#8217;s just gut feelings for now. I&#8217;m pleased with the progress so far, and will definitely continue. I just need to find ways to integrate this into my day other than appending it to the end.<\/p>\n<p>Next week I might try to write a plan of each post first, and I&#8217;d like to start researching a topic the day before writing about it. I&#8217;ve made some headway today &#8212; first draft written at 6:30 PM in a barber shop, third draft now at 11:01, and I&#8217;m mostly wound-down for sleep.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the friends and family who have been reading and giving feedback. I appreciate it a ridiculous amount. Now it&#8217;s time for sleep, where I&#8217;m a viking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warning: bit of a boring show today &#8212; just plans and record keeping. Learned, Keep, Start, Stop I&#8217;ve completed one week of blogging each day. What have I learned, what should I keep doing, what should I start doing, and what should I stop doing? I&#8217;ve Learned Things may fall into place easily, or take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":373,"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions\/373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}