Getting Things Done Project List

Best thing about the accountability meetings, for me, is having to confront my own procrastination.

Determined not to laugh off my lack of progress next time, I read a little refresher article on the Getting Things Done method to break down large projects into manageable "next action" tasks: http://www.thesimpledollar.com/getting-things-done-the-five-phases-of-project-planning/

Going to take a stab at it, so here we go:

Project: How to Draw in Linear Perspective eBook
Purpose: To help amateur artists draw backgrounds

Outcome: A well-organized, organic, visual approach to drawing backgrounds that support a particular story in eBook form. People love it because it teaches more than just boring grids. It's available for free, but download link is sent via e-mail to help build my email list.

Brainstorming:

• Update website links in book
• Draw step-by-step illustration demos
• Author page
• Double check that page numbers correlate throughout book
• Cover
• Where to upload it so that people can download it? Google drive?
• What happens after finishing the book? Where can readers gather and share their progress?

Organizing:

Unfinished parts of the book:

• Revise thumbnail sketching process to include topics introduced in "Story Angles" section. (Not worth the time to do over.)
• Linear perspective angle demos
• 0 point perspective drawing demonstration
• 1 point perspective drawing demonstration
• Vertical 2 point perspective drawing demonstration
• Horizontal 2 point perspective drawing demonstration
• 3 point perspective drawing demonstration
• Wrap-Up section
• The cover
• The "About the Author" blurb

Next Actions:

1. Introduction to linear perspective angles
1. Draw xyz intro (June 28)
2. Draw equal division intro (June 28)
3. Draw perspective grid comparisons (2 pages done June 29, finished June 30)
2. Wrap-Up section
1. Write the "About the Author" blurb (June 30)
2. Plan a photoshoot with Sally for my author's photo (during our routine morning dog walk?)
3. Update "Next Actions" List with new tasks no later than July 4th, 2016.

Reminder to self: * Prioritize actions even if they are independent of each other. * Do not move to the next action until you have done all you can do on the first. * Start at the top of the list and work downward. (1a, 1b, 2a, 2b, 2c, etc)

* Cross out completed topics and add the date and time it was completed.

* Sean McCabe's "90 minutes of focused work time" done 5 days a week should be plenty to get all actions completed.

*Reward myself immediately after working with something fun (playing guitar, watching a movie, etc).