(which reminds me, I’ve been meaning to blog about NASA’s Kepler mission since forever.\u00a0 It’s an incredible mission which, I believe, will lead to some revolutionary astronomical discoveries–and may even rejuvenate interest in science fiction.\u00a0 But more on that later…)<\/p>\n So yeah.\u00a0 My goal is to finish WAFH before the end of February, which is going to require a lot of work.\u00a0 Two and a half weeks, with LTUE 2011 sucking up one of the weekends…it’s going to be tough.<\/p>\n Numbers-wise, though, it’s still quite doable.\u00a0 I want to keep this draft pretty close to 90k (no more than 100k), and I’m already at 53k words.\u00a0 With sixteen days left in the month, I need to write between 2.3k and 2.9k words per day to make it.<\/p>\n In the meantime, it’s 2 am, and I’d better get some sleep. Waking up late is definitely bad for productivity, and I hate it. If I could train myself to wake up every morning at 5 am like Aneeka, that would be awesome. Actually, I’d probably just complain about how much it sucked to get up early every day, but hey–the grass is always greener…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Man, where did the day go?\u00a0 I don’t feel like I was lazy, yet I only wrote about 1.2k words for the whole day.\u00a0 And things were going so well the day before… Well, I guess I was busy, just with a whole lot of other things.\u00a0 Donated plasma (which took all morning), got some… Continue reading Deceptively unproductive day<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[44],"tags":[516,122,42,46,441,454,369,20,210],"class_list":["post-4171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ds","tag-contracts","tag-friends","tag-frustrations","tag-goals-and-plans","tag-ltue-2011","tag-productivity","tag-publication","tag-quark-writing-group","tag-the-leading-edge","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-15h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4171"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4181,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171\/revisions\/4181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/photos\/images\/20090626005625_26jun09.jpg\")
<\/a>Oh yeah, check it out!\u00a0 I signed my second publishing contract today–again, with Leading Edge<\/em>.\u00a0 They’re going t0 publish a short poem I wrote about Gliese 581g, otherwise known as Zarmina’s World.<\/p>\n