I’ve not done much book writing in the last month. To many thesis to read, proposals to edit, self-evaluations to write, and emails to get send of. That, and I have been hard at working getting Fichero working with some reliability. I had to rewrite the multiprocessing back end in pure Python, with the help of Cursor. I’m not totally convinced it’s as efficient as the other option which is Celery and RIDIS. But, the goal is a Mac, Windows, and Linux app, without dependencies, and which case having RIDIS as an external dependency isn’t ideal. But, in any case. We have a Mac App, using Beeware’s totally brilliant Briefcase package management system and Toga to make a Mac/Windows/Linux app. I’m quite proud of it. Not perfect, lots of bugs, but its runs, and does its magic of taking old documents and cataloguing them.
Today, I want to think about getting back to writing. I have lots of projects, lots of text, and no finished book. I’m going to try to be more regular again, and one way to do that is to have achievable goals. The goals are flexible though. What am I working on? I am coding, organizing, revising old text, writing new text, and polishing. I propose therefore:
A win is:
Daydream: 50 minutes
Code: 25,000 words
Organize: 5,000 words
Revise: 1,000 words
Write: 300 words
Polish: 3,000 words
Totally arbitrary, I know. But, sometimes achievable goals are important.
Today, a win is coding 25,000 words. (By coding, I mean tagging text with themes and topics using Structur
Update: 11:43 am. Today I coded 25,000 words!