Mr. Darcy and Making Time to Write

So Mr. Darcy and I made a pact that I would make every effort to write 

for at least an hour a day. 

This is not an easy pact to make as I can barely find an hour to do the thing that must get done.

I started by getting myself organized.

I purchased a new notebook and labeled each section.

I purchased sticky notes that I can use for writing plot points.

I sharpened a bunch of pencils....I do a lot of writing on paper first I have no idea why 

but I seem to work much faster when I write then when I type.

The words flow more easily with pencil to paper.
I also use my iPad a lot when taking notes there are several writing apps that you can download
when I find one that I love I will let you know.

Next I organized my computer a little more with folders.

I have switched from a PC to a Mac so I needed a new word processing software.

I tried Pages which is an Apple Application but I didn't like it.

I kept feeling like I had to stop what I was typing to make adjustments to the software.

I was wasting a heck of a lot of time resetting margins.

Last night I downloaded MS Office for Mac (thanks Sam) and I typed about a thousand words.

It came so much easier for me using Word instead of Pages.

Now that all my prep work is done I am ready to move ahead.

My main goal is to finish (finally) my the Novel that I have been writing 

FOR...EV... ER 

or at least it feels like forever.

The problem has never been not being able to tell the story it has been finding the time between my job, my family, house work and sleeping to get the words from my head to my paper. I did receive a suggestion that I should buy a tape recorder and tell myself the story while I am driving the 45 minutes (each way) to and from work. I might try this suggestion and I will let you know what I think.

So how about you? Have any goals you have set for yourself?