I now have a limerick for every day of the year. Sadly, a few may be redundant. But I had ~300 at year's start and 370 now. I'm generally satisfied at the weird rhymes, and I have a small pile of ones that I can't put into a small story yet. Maybe I'll share a few if I haven't blogged a bit. Many are funny months after being written. Sometimes I even (sheepishly) fix the meter. Some are more profane than you'd expect from if you've read my reviews.

It's great to hit my first real organizational writing goal--it'd been for the end of the year, but I figured I could get done early if I sat down and wrote where I got. I've had goals where I said, write X amounts of notes.

Of course, the next goal is getting my novel-o-meter to 100%. It hasn't moved in a while, but I think it will. It's the anonymous one, but true's encouragement has helped move the non-anonymous one ahead. I'm not sure of the percent complete, but there's a lot I've had bumping around that I never sorted out.

More tweaks to my daily writing routine and programs means I can just create arbitrary sections and push a button, and my daily text file is merged into the Big Magilla. It's a relief to be able to get home, push a button, and have everything merged. There's a lot of stuff I was worried I might not use enough vs the effort expended, but I feel very good because I've earned the convenience and tailored it to what I need.

The best part of it is that I can now create sections a lot more easily. Before, I just had 10 or 20 hard coded ones. Now, everything can fall where it should, right away, with a bit of planning. I wonder why I didn't do this before. It's as if I got trapped by "be grateful for what you have" with NoteTab Standard's outlining ability.

Also, there's the speech recognition software, Dragon, that I got after reading bloomer's blog entries. It's useful to be able to gesture or walk around when I need to, to transcribe stuff. It's energy saved that can't really be calculated.

Part of me is upset I haven't made even more use of this. I need to have confidence I will. I'm pleased with the time I've taken to make things convenient--not just to have convenience, but because I've identified some bottlenecks that can sap my energy and time before I get around to the tough stuff I really want to tackle, even if I have to build myself up for it.