Idea Warehouse

Cleaning the House Marathon

Whew, I'm finally finished with the first draft of the book, although the minute I sent it out, I felt it needed a whole lot of fixing. As I put it into my notebook to keep track of everything in the right order, I kept marking things here and there, but I guess that's the nature of a first draft. Yay!! Anyway, I need to tackle the house now. I've neglected so much it's pathetic. I look around and don't know where to start first. It all needs work. After that, I'll need to do a Writing the Syllabi Marathon probably. Oh well. Meanwhile, I would like to set up a site where Mom and Dad can just go to it and see all of our family's pictures. I told them about going to the public library and just typing in a URL and told them that a URL was one of those www.com things, so they understood, but still feel intimidated I'm sure. I wonder if, when I'm their age, I'll have the same feeling of intimidation about technology. Probably. The camera phones still freak me out with their Dick Tracy-like feel. Ok, well since I can't type in a cleaning job, I guess I better go do the analog work it entails.

Writing the Book Marathon

Today I have to really put the push on for the book I'm writing: AVOIDING PLAGIARISM. It's hard to work at home sometimes because it feels as if I need to get up and clean the living room or do the laundry, and also I get cooped-up feeling a lot. I also have to watch my Weight Watchers points and not munch all day as I write. Diet Coke already works as a fuel, but that isn't so good for me to consume in large quantities. Anyway, today I will be finishing the 10 types section and setting up a lot of the exercises. I pulled off a lot of sample pieces that I could use for plagiarized /non-plagiarized examples, so I have to mess with those. Examples and exercises and features---need lots of those, as well as to finish ch. 3. I believe I also need to complete the last section of ch. 4. Tomorrow I'll figure out which pieces have been given permission and which still need it, and request those. Kimberly Chase wrote me from Israel, and I have Richard Posner's article and a few others. Should be rolling along now. I need to cook less, write more, websurf less, write more, read less, write more.....etc. Brandon, if you're reading this, I'm working hard. One of these days I need to put my syllabi together but that will have to wait until the book is done. Plus, Nick, I need more illustrations.