Jason Penney's thoughts on writing, life, and other stuff
Managed to get about 45 minutes in today. It’s the first chunk of usable time I’ve had all week. I’m settling into the new job, although still not settling into the schedule that comes with it. I really wish I could have taken a week off in between jobs.
I plan to get in a few hours of writing tomorrow if possible. Wish me luck!
Not great, but it’s something. Now to bed.
Made some progress this morning. It’s hard to get back into it again after almost a week off. I need to try and make some time every day, even if it’s just for one scene. The current section is moving pretty fast, but I have the feeling I need to reshuffle some scenes here and there still.
Day 17 was actually Monday. I haven’t had a moment of free time between then and now and I don’t have any right now. Hopefully tomorrow.
I think I’m getting things down a bit better. I had very little time today, and made a bit of progress. Hope it keeps going.
Things haven’t been going well lately. Not in any way. So far, today continues that trend.
I got up early to work on my type in. My current speed is about ten minutes per page to get it done. I’ve got over 500 pages left, so that’s well over 80 hours of work left if I don’t manage to speed up somehow. So I don’t need additional setbacks.
I mentioned before that I started doing revisions in WriteWay Pro. It’s pretty good in a lot of ways. After finishing two scenes this morning I thought I should do a global search and replace on a changed character name. Now I’m used to working in OpenOffice.org where this same type of activity on this same size document is fairly speedy. Also I have OpenOffice.org set up to auto-save a copy of the file every few minutes. I do this because when I get working I loose track of things like real life. I’m sure you can see where this is going. After watching the simple Search & Replace peg my CPU usage at 100% for about 20 minutes and error came up. When I clicked “OK” WriteWay Pro just went away. Not good.
I opened WriteWay back up, looked at where my edits left off and mourned the last hour of my life which was a complete and utter waste of time. Now I have to go to work, so here’s to yet another day with no writing progress.
Picked up a cheap document holder to see if it would help me keep my place when moving from page to screen. It does.
Wahoo! I’ll write more later, but I need to go spend time with the long ignored family now.
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My most-of-the-day-writing days ended yesterday (and even then I didn’t get nearly the time in I wanted). I did get a few hours today though. This latter section is slow going. I’m pretty sure I wrote most of it late at night, and it shows. Still, progress is progress.
Had a bit of time and knocked out 10 more pages.
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