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Give me an assignment.
So here's the thing: I don't really write anymore. Other than a short combiflat, I haven't written a puzzle in ages. Nor do I get to write much at my job just at the moment; we're in a planning stage, so I do lots of charts and lists and things, but not much writing. And I haven't written anything creative in forever.
I seem to be incapable of motivating myself to do this. Apparently I can only produce things on deadline.
So I'm asking you, my LJ readers, for an assignment and a deadline. Here are the rules:
1. Assign me a writing project. [ETA: Or puzzle construction project.] Give me a deadline. (State the deadline in a number of days or weeks or whatever, rather than a specific day, since it'll be a day or two before I start, as you'll see.)
2. I'll pick one assignment and start on it, and report when I finish. I'll share the product unless the assignor doesn't want me to. (And if you want to assign me something you'd actually pay me for and use, that's fine too. :) )
3. When I finish, I'll pick another assignment and start that. And so on.
Some guidelines:
I seem to be incapable of motivating myself to do this. Apparently I can only produce things on deadline.
So I'm asking you, my LJ readers, for an assignment and a deadline. Here are the rules:
1. Assign me a writing project. [ETA: Or puzzle construction project.] Give me a deadline. (State the deadline in a number of days or weeks or whatever, rather than a specific day, since it'll be a day or two before I start, as you'll see.)
2. I'll pick one assignment and start on it, and report when I finish. I'll share the product unless the assignor doesn't want me to. (And if you want to assign me something you'd actually pay me for and use, that's fine too. :) )
3. When I finish, I'll pick another assignment and start that. And so on.
Some guidelines:
- Make the deadline not too generous, but reasonable. Remember that I have a full-time job and three rehearsals a week. I'm not looking for NaNoWriMo-level here. :)
- I suck at fiction. I am therefore more likely to accept an assignment that involves nonfiction, puzzles, or possibly poetry.
- I don't mind doing research.
Have at it!
A two page summary of current cutting edge treatment for Multiple Sclerosis
I'm sure that I can get a non-sciency blurb from various MS support societies, but I would like my blurb to contain a fair amount of science. One week deadline.
- A brief overview of what MS is. (Less brief than "immune system attacks nervous system".)
- What the current standard treatment is as a result of what studies and what the outcomes are.
- What stuff is just coming out of experimental stage.
- What is down the pipeline so I recognize it when I hear about it in the future.
(My new roommate has MS, and she knows lots of stuff, but I figure that getting me & Rob up to speed would not be bad in any way. I'm mostly looking for something I can hang new information on to as I start paying attention to MS developments in the news. )
Again, I would want to share and you would retain rights.
Re: A two page summary of current cutting edge treatment for Multiple Sclerosis
MS runs rampant on both sides of my family, but I don't know nearly as much about it as I would like to.