It’s 12:30 am. I can’t sleep. I have to get up at 5 am. After my last post, I realized I left the paperwork for my Pre-Op appointment back on my desk at work. That required a 20 minute drive to pick it up and the twenty minute drive home. … Continue reading →
Within hours this morning, my computer techs had delivered a rebuilt machine to my cubicle. Meanwhile, I’d found more files I needed to save off to the USB hard drive, AND I was trying to continue to work. This weekend was the time for the annual, “Eek! We have no … Continue reading →
Things are progressing nicely with Twilight. I couldn’t bring myself to put it down today, so I’ve worked on it for nearly 12 hours now–using my usual schizophrenic style of mixing housework with writing work. I accomplished more writing work than housework, but the dishes, laundry, and physical therapy exercises … Continue reading →
I finished the read-through. I like more of it than I hate of it–a lot more of it. I’m doing the easy revision parts while I mull over what to do with the parts I believe I need to change (hence the count above). I changed the beginning a bit. … Continue reading →
In October 2002, I was issued a brand, spanking new Dell laptop. Nice machine. Been working great, but I’ve noticed problems with this model–overheating, keyboards and screens dying, and hard drives toasting. Mine? Had the keyboard replaced last summer (learned to be proactive when a colleague couldn’t type his NATO … Continue reading →
(Are you noticing a trend in these titles?) I don’t know what to do with this. It’s not that I don’t like it so much as I don’t think it’s appropriate for other people to read (and some of you are asking what makes me think that’s my call to … Continue reading →
I’m up to page 137 (of 335). There’s some workable stuff here, but this book has ‘issues’. Lots to be cut/revised. Of course, the challenge for me will be: What to cut; what to revise; what to keep. But isn’t it that way for all of us? I need to … Continue reading →
I’m crawling through it. I haven’t become violently ill yet, so that’s a plus. I do tend to like what I write when I’m “in the zone” and not thinking about it. I also blush to think that someone else will read some of this stuff. Oh, my! And this … Continue reading →
I wrote the two scenes, deleted another, crossed the 100k barrier and came back to finish at 99,709. I did the formatting changes last night. I was still finding continuity errors this morning. I’m updating the timeline and wordcount breakout now–looking for a more equitable way to break the book … Continue reading →
I wasn’t too far off on my original attempt. All I have to do now is figure out how to reduce the padding around them, and I’ll be more pleased with the result. As I figured, it was easy. I’m not sure how I manage to make easy things hard … Continue reading →