To Mentor, Perchance to Learn

A friend of mine who worked with me at a past job was looking to upgrade his skills. He was thinking a rather expensive, intensive, immersion experience. Given where he was in life I suggested that I work with him, to challenge him, keep him honest and on track as he learned some new and remunerative skills.

Lest anyone think the word altruism, please don’t. I’m planning on getting some of my needs met at the same time. I need someone to challenge me, to keep me honest. I spent too much time on my own, with only myself to rely on deadlines. Yes, that mean’s I’m undisciplined with my time. Sue me: this will be a mechanism to instill discipline.

So he’ll learn a new, great skill, and I’ll have someone who knows English and deadlines, and will keep me honest to them.

Writing, Self-Distractions, and Real Work

I’ve got about 30 things on my publishing and writing to-do lists, and here I am creating a plugin for WordPress. I know I’m distractable when there are tons of things on my list, but thrashing isn’t a way to get them done. One by one, according to priority. While I’ve got a whole other to-do list on coming up with a great solution for that, I decided I need to “treat” myself to new creativity between bouts of writing, editing, or chores. So this afternoon is dedicated to the plugin, which I’ll showcase here first before putting into the WordPress plugin library.

Goals for today:

  • Most of my home honey-do list;
  • Edit Coming of Age chapter one and submit to two online sites;
  • Come up with covers for the remaining short stories and get Consent and Sabbath Queen up on my shop; and
  • Get my existing published works up on SmashWords.

And no gaming or drifting until that’s all done.