Things I can do to make progress on my book

Posted on July 26th, 2008 by Sacha Chua

Switch my development environment to Emacs
Put together the existing book chapters I have so far
Process the tech reviews I've gotten back
Work on one outline item
Work on a different chapter
View and explain a random person's .emacs file
Have regular release schedules
Work on the outline
Just write
Hang out in #emacs
Read Emacs-related blogs
Read random wiki pages on emacswiki.org
Post tidbits
Dig through my old Emacs configuration
Answer Emacs-related mail
Monitor help.gnu.emacs and other Emacs-related newsgroups/mailing lists
Learn about a random Emacs symbol
Write for 10 minutes
Brainstorm ideas
Upgrade my packages

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