Current plan for writing: Write 30 minutes per weekday and gradually work up to longer amounts of time
Current reward structure for writing:
- any week I write on five days: Baskin Robbins ice cream cone
- 5 hours: sundae at Cold Stone Creamery
- 10 hours: new hardcover book or two trade paperbacks or four regular paperbacks
- 15 hours: something from Paper Source (I’m a little bit of a stationery freak)
- 20 hours: something from Bath and Body works
- 30 hours: manicure and pedicure
- 40 hours: dinner at a nice restaurant
- 50 hours: something from Ann Taylor or other clothing store
- 75 hours: hair highlights
- 100 hours: massage
- complete draft of lit. review: afternoon tea
- complete drafts of each of the other chapters: dinner at a nice restaurant
- paper submitted: afternoon tea
- thesis ready to hand to committee: Kindle (I want one of these BAD)
Status:
- Chapter 1, Lit. Review: not started
- Chapter 2, Results (aka my paper): 80% complete
- Chapter 3, Impact, Future Directions, Relevance, etc: not started
- Appendix 1, yeast two hybrid experiment that doesn’t fit anywhere else: not started
- Appendix 2, experiments done for third author paper: not started
- Appendix 3, my genius protocol: not started
- Appendix 4, References: not started
