So far so good for me. I’m planning on writing over the weekend, so this isn’t the end of week one for me yet.
Going in, I knew this week was going to be the toughest for me. I flew into Santa Clara Sunday for the 2010 Zendcon—as Susannah can attest, conferences and me actually getting any writing done are almost polar opposites. I managed to write all but one day this past week though, so I feel that’s a success.
As for tools, I’m using Sphinx and ReSTructured text. I use the tool a lot the documentation for my various open source projects, so it seems to fit. ReST is pretty lightweight so it gets out of my way well. I’ve only had one or two instances where I’ve even had to double check the syntax for something I wanted to do. Of course, I’m already thinking about how I might go about converting this to PML if I actually end the month with something that’s worth printing up.
As for stats, wc is telling me that I have 4540 words total. That includes at least the preliminary headers for outlines and some of basic markup required to actually build things like a table of contents and so on. The PDF version that Sphinx generates is currently at 21 pages. Of actual content pages, I have 11 full pages of content to show for the week.
Consider that I’m basically only 4 days in (just over half of a full week’s worth of writing), I’ll take that. I know this is going to be fleshed out a bit more, but I’ve refrained from any heavy editing thus far focusing instead on new content to flesh out the whole idea before I make passes back through the material.
-T