{"id":2590,"date":"2011-02-21T11:43:27","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T17:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/?p=2590"},"modified":"2011-02-21T11:51:59","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T17:51:59","slug":"random-monday-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/2011\/02\/21\/random-monday-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Monday Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Podcasts<\/strong><\/h2>\n

I’ve mentioned before that I want to do a Juggling Writer Podcast<\/a>. It’s still something I think about, but first — I wanted to finish the other podcast<\/a> I was working on.<\/p>\n

I finished that podcast last weekend.<\/p>\n

If you’re not familiar with that podcast, I decided to podcast my first\u00a0 novel, a humorous coming-of-age story about a family traveling cross country in a possessed station wagon called Hell Comes With Wood Paneled Doors<\/em>. (It will remain online, if you want to listen from the beginning<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

I had a blast reading a chapter a week and getting the story out there. It was great hearing from people who loved the story and listened every week. Each week, I see that new people are finding it and making their way through the story. But the whole thing was a bigger project than I expected.<\/p>\n

I don’t read out loud very well<\/a>, so it took 5-10 hours to read, edit, and get a chapter online. It took away from time I could have been writing.<\/p>\n

I know a Juggling Writer podcast wouldn’t be as frequent or involve as much editing time, but right now I want to get back to writing — not recording.<\/p>\n

SuperNotecard<\/strong><\/h2>\n

On <\/a>Lisa Eckstein’s blog<\/a>, she mentioned a great little program called SuperNotecard<\/a>.<\/p>\n

SuperNotecard is the notecard plotting software I’d write if I could program.<\/p>\n

It’s not bogged down with so many features that it detracts from what it does very well: lets you create electronic notecards and shuffle them around.<\/p>\n

I’ve tried the corkboard feature in Scrivener and some other programs, but something about SuperNotecard clicked with the way my mind works.<\/p>\n

Check it out.<\/p>\n

What Next?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Now that the podcast is done, it’s back to submitting some articles and working on the next big thing. (And getting more of my writing on Amazon<\/a> and some other places.)<\/p>\n

The freelance work I’ve been doing has dried up, so it looks like it will be back to a normal day job soon. Before that happens, I hope to have time to pitch some articles and really<\/em> get started on the next novel, instead of just tinkering with ideas here and there.<\/p>\n

Outside of some short stories and blog entries, I haven’t done any substantial new writing since July, when I finished my last novel.<\/p>\n

It will be nice moving on to another bigger project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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