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Project Typist

Day 1 – Scheduling – Today I'm am working on scheduled writing. I began writing at 1pm, like I planned to do over the next couple of days. Just prior to getting to work I fall asleep for an hour long nap. I almost didn't wake up. Despite feeling exhausted I got to work. Since I watch TV during the control I decided to watch TV during this session. I wrote for nearly an hour, a lot of dialog, then I hit a plot point I hadn't thought through. Trying to figure out what happens next stressed me out so I stopped.

606 words typed.

Doing it Hemingway

Project Typist
Day 3 – Control – Drinking and writing just like the masters. I’ve read several theories that drinking doesn’t help the artistic mind and may actually hinder it.  I may not have written as much as day 2 but I felt like I was on a roll.  I was still watching Robotech while working. I Wrote for an hour but was distracted for nearly 30 minutes.
484 words typed.

A Page

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Day 2 – Control – Still working on Rhodes still watching Robotech. Listened to music while working.  Worked for an hour and a half then got bored and worried that the plot line was getting confused. Spent a good while re-reading the end of Rendered Fat to remember what was going on. Also it felt like there was too much dialog. I’m also hungry, the cat wants attention and I want to cut my hair. 730 words typed.
For anyone who doesn’t know the average words per page is about 500.

Control

Day 1 – Control
I’ working on the sequel to Rendered Fat which is currently called Rhodes.  Before I set to work there were 7,113 words.  I sat on the couch watch TV as I typed.  It had been a while since I last wrote so I didn’t expect it to go well.
I lasted 30 minutes.  Brought down by distractions and sleep. After browsing the internet briefly I decided to nap.
It’s debatable whether or not my distraction and sleepiness could be a psychological or scheduling reaction. Either way I typed 397.  Who knows if they were good or bad.

Project Typist

“Writers block” is defined as a writers inability to form words into sentences and sentences into information, either fictional or non-fictional. This experiment does not intend to discover the cause of this issue, whether biological or physiologic. The purpose of the experiment is to find realistic and efficient solutions to writers block. There will be 3 section in this experiment. Section 1^st will be the control, writing unaided by any systems. The 2^nd will contain theories proposed by online sources. The 3^rd will be theories developed by myself (some based of section 2 results) and adjusted over time to increase performance. Each theory will be measured based on the number of words typed over 3 hours.

Section 1 - Control

Creating a true control is a challenge. The control should be written at a non-specific time and a non-specific location. It should attempt to not incidentally engage any of the theories above. Thus the control should be the same writing project every time. There should be no breaks and it should be up to standard. I however cannot deduce a solution to the idea that if writing in the middle, or working on other sections of the project is a solution, then continual writing will change the area of the project that is being worked on. I think that the best solution is to write as close to my normal habits.

Section 2 – Outside Theories

1. Implement a writing schedule – Choose a time a write every day at the same time. An addition suggestion is to write only a limited amount of words at the same time, ie 500 words.
2. Exercise – Based on the theory that increasing blood flow will help the brain function at a better efficiency.
3. Start in the middle – Move to a section of the work that interests you more.
4. Multiple projects – Work on multiple projects at the same time. Theorizing that the problem may be the project.
5. Write bad – A theory that the problem is a result of too high a standard.
6. Listen to music -
7. Take a break – Theorizing that a brief rest will help the mind focus. Shower, walk, drive, nap or read.

Section 3 – My Extrapolations

Still have to come up with them.

Operation Blog

Stage 1 of operation blog is to create blog accounts on multiple sites.  The objective is to discover which sites are easier to use and connect with more people.

Ease of use will be determined by myself and based solely on person preferences.  These preferences include but are not limited to: Blog layout, ease of posting, back dating and queuing.

Blogs will be judge for connectivity based on number of comments and members/followers. For example on my tumblr account I had 8 followers within a month and have had a number of people like and repost my posts.

I now have 7 blogs including my tumblr account but not including my twitter account.

cassiangrey.tumblr.com

cassiangrey.blogspot.com

cassiangrey.livejournal.com

cassiangrey.xanga.com

cassiangrey.sosblog.com

cassiangrey.wordpress.com

cassiangrey.joeuser.com
and my Twitter user name is cassiangrey