Welcome to the October 2009 Writing Challenge!
To participate, simply state your writing goals, write for at least 30 minutes per day, and hold yourself accountable by posting your progress at the end of
your daily writing time.
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Commit to small chunks of daily writing (30-60 minutes per day, Monday through Friday).
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This month, I have three writing goals: send out a recently revised
manuscript to another journal; complete a draft of another manuscript; and
complete an outline of my career development grant.
October Goals
Send 4 Monday Motivators
Prep and give Tenure & Time Management tele-workshop
Cook 1 new recipe each week
Maintain workout schedule [run three times per week]
Maintain Date Night each week
write every day
attend write on site every Friday [except when traveling]
Prep and give MI workshop
Prep and attend CCF board meeting
...
My writing goals for the mnth of October are:
1) Complete analysis and draft of at least one paper from my Kenya research
2) Finish revision and submit my diversity supplement application
3) Revise UTI lecture for the medical students
4) Come up with topic, complete literature search, and outline slides for grand rounds lecture in November
and if I am doing great on those goals by ...
DISSERTATION goals
*** My aim is to have 3 (modest) or 4 (realistic) polished chapters by December 2009 - so far one my intro is completed and approved; I am almost done with my
lit review chapter; and then I will move to revise chapter two
What?
⢠complete revisions to chapter one - lit review by 10/15- Send to co-chairs -
⢠START revisions to chapter TWO - SUBMIT solid draft to ...
October 1 to 31
FELLOWSHIPS
- SHC 10/15
- NHC 10/15
- AAAS 10/16
- IAS 11/1
- SAR 11/1
* Five fellowship applications
Guate Deportation Project
19 interviews with deportees
Check transcriptions as they come in
Get stats on Guate deportees - FLACSO, migraciones
JA Deportation Project
24 JA deportee profiles
"Transition" article - Caleb, O'Ryan, Samuel
DR ...
Hi everyone!
It is October 1st - holy crap. I got in 35 minutes of writing today which is awesome. Am near complete on the fellowship application. Tonight's treat: a TV
show and chocolate...
October Goals:
Submit Sabbatical Fellowship Application 10/15
Plan SIUC talk 10/12
Continue looking for fellowship opportunities - all month
Review 2 journal articles - 10/15
Read diss ...
Good people, checking in so let the great energy from the site fuel my nightly writing. I spent the day in the archives so a little beat but will be back to
report at least 60 mins of writing.
Hello Weekend Warriors.. loved your post ContinualK! Thank you DIVA for this space. I'll close out October on Monday. I just realized that I started to close out the month, but I left that reflection/check out on my work computer. I may bump my meeting day and reflection to Tuesday. This was I can focus my energies to finalizing this post doc application due on Monday. Last night, I watched TV & drank sleepy time tea and I did...
October 1 to 31 FELLOWSHIPS - SHC 10/15 - DONE!! - NHC 10/15 DONE!! - AAAS 10/16 DONE!! - IAS 11/1 DONE!! - SAR 11/1 DONE!! * Five fellowship applications DONE!! DONE!! Guate Deportation Project 19 interviews with deportees DONE!! Check transcriptions as they come in DONE, more or less... Get stats on Guate deportees - FLACSO, migraciones DONE!! JA Deportation Project 24 JA deportee profiles Partially done - need to do 16 more!...
Brothers and sisters: I just finished editing the education section of Ch. 3. I will begin working on the final section of the chapter on Black healthcare in the city. Then, I will edit the notes. Wow, I cannot believe it. I should finish the final section by next week and the endnotes by the following weekend. Now I am off to my conference. I spent three hours working on today's section. Peace. B
Hello All, 95 minutes writing. I finished the circadian modeling section. I will pick another section to start over the weekend. I did get the hard part of my program working yesterday. Now I have to display the results. I'm planning to run into some problems. However, I expect they will be easy ones in comparison to debugging the new analysis module. Eddie: Congratulations on the house. Getting a house of our own is next on the list. I...
October Goals Send 4 Monday Motivators -- DONE Prep, deliver, and follow up on Tenure & Time Management tele-workshop -- DONE Cook 1 new recipe each week -- DONE Maintain workout schedule [run three times per week] -- DONE Maintain Date Night each week -- DONE write every day -- DONE attend write on site every Friday [except when traveling] -- DONE Prep, deliver and follow up on MI workshop -- DONE Complete JN article 1 revisions --...
November Write Everyday (Done , wrote everyday and some weekends as well) Write-in (Done) Finish 1 dissertation chapter (In progress Not done, but so close I can wrap my hands around the conclusion) Visit Archives (4x month) (Done) Transcribe Interview (1x week) (3 completed and started the 4th one) Draft AESA Paper (Done, completed the paper and prepped the presentation) Analyze interviews (In progress, decided to do these right now on an as...
edie - love the costume idea; so cute! today's writing: 3hrs today's treat: It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (missed it last night, will watch Tivo tonite) tomorrow's writing: 3hrs zd
Today 54 minutes on coding 28 minutes writing diss (yay! everything was good but then had spectacularly unhelpful mtng with diss committee member. i felt like i had to go in b/c we had a conflict recently and i thought the longer i wait to see him the harder it will get... but it was just so unhelpful. sometimes i just have to tell myself that i do know what is best to do and just need to do it. he was saying that he thinks that what i am...
Got in another 30 min..just in the nick of time..I hear some footsteps coming my way..... But, I had just enough time to finish and send off my annual review...whew. Diva -- cannot wait to hear about (and learn from) all your new knowledge - exciting! Later everyone......
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