Editor Emeritus
Posts: 2514
Joined: December 31, 1969, 08:00:00 PM
Location: Mass, USA
Editorial & Writer's Block
- Some of it depends on which category you are best at. I am only moderately talented at fiction on my best days and pretty jammed up the rest of the time. But I do seem to be able to produce 500-1000 word opinion pieces pretty fast on a variety of topics - witness this post!

- I have a big move to NYC coming up, which for the short term is jamming me even more with all the prep work which runs counter to my lack of concentration to begin with. However I hope to symbolically use the transition as a focus aid when I get there to try to finally complete the quarter-baked projects floating between my notes and my head.
- Little tools. Over on DonationCoder.com, which is a site that helps give people little software freeware tools on demand, I just picked up a little widget-program which I will nickname "turbo-backspace". While big editing can wait for later parts of the writing process, I don't like typos if I see them. From my writing style, all my typos are of the "extra junk character" type, followed by another few keys before my fingers slow down for my eyes to catch up. So this little widget speed-deletes either the last 4 or last 7 keystrokes, and that micro savings of time is rather nice.