Mondays suck, I regularly have that awful Garfield moment where I realize it is Monday, and that I just don’t want it to be. It’s not that I hate my work week or anything, or that the weekend is such a killer that I want it to never be over, it’s more of a feeling of having to pick myself up. All the way up.

I really hate Mondays.

The good part about these blasted days is that it is when I do my weekly planning, giving myself weekly goals, and a todo list. I have done this for years, trying various ways to manage this system, and have found a model that works for me. It might not work for you, but if it doesn’t, you can always port it to some other way of managing it, to fit your workflow. More

Index cards are great, you can use them for all kinds of things. Me, I never really bothered about them until a couple of years ago, when I was involved in the creation of a board game. They were perfect for jotting down stats on, so I bought a bunch.

The board game never reached production, and was actually just barely playable to be honest. It wasn’t such a good idea, it would seem.

The index cards, however, turned up when I was moving out to the country (I’ve moved since, back in a city again, by the way), and I was immediately hooked. More

I decided to start a little project this week. As you might know I’m also writing fiction, both for online projects (like OrnTales.com) and, well, offline things.

To further push myself to the fiction breathing monster of ten years ago, I’m willing to try any technique. My most recent one is very analog indeed. I decided to buy a Moleskine notebook, and a high quality ball pen that felt good in my hand. More