throw another bear in the canoe

*waves*

I am three days with no writing right now, but my brain is simply worn out after finishing the second big build up for the second try fail and I think I am in retrench mode myself. On the upside sitting at 341 pages means I can see that distant end somewhere beyond 400 closing in.

I have a question, where are you getting the widget to do word count tracking in your LJ?

Seamus

It turns out any idiot could have clicked on the dongle and figured out the word count tool. GO ME!

Thanks.

S

The nice thing about words on paper is that even if they are the wrong words on paper, you can always go back and change them for the right words eventually.

Oooh, can I quote that in my blog? Properly credited, of course.

but of course!

It doesn't have to be calendrical: down time is down time, whatever the shape.

It's true. Apparently we need that occasionally. Who knew?

How much of that 40 hours is sleep that are you counting? ;)

Um. 7? I've been sleeping a lot lately. It's the exercise.

o/~ Please don't tell what train I'm on
So they won't know where I've gone! ~\o

Yeah, I failed day off

We do what we do because we can't not do it.

Which is a good place to be in life, generally speaking, but can get maddening at times. A little boredom can be theraputic.

The nice thing about words on paper is that even if they are the wrong words on paper, you can always go back and change them for the right words eventually.

Really? I find English maddeningly hard to refactor -- if my widget becomes a frob, I have to change every mention of it, and all the places where I talk about widgeting it rather than frobbing it, and its cool metallic feel becomes a hard plasticky feel, and it doesn't go 'click' but 'tink', and and and... English is wicked messy. In computer code usually my tools can make the replacement, and then tell me where it's broken and I need to fix it by hand.

I'm impressed at the cohesion of your stories, especially considering their complexity and the rolling-revision strategy you seem to use. I read your stories with an eye to detail, and I've yet to come across a false note.

Well, thank you. Of course, all I notice is the niggling continuity errors....

Heh. Fair enough.