Wasn't I Writing a Novel?

by | Apr 10, 2007 | LiveJournal Days, Uncategorized | 10 comments

The goal was: Finish the first draft by the end of March, take April off, begin the Second draft in May.

But the combination of dead-laptop and new-girlfriend shot that in the foot. Of course I’m not complaining about the girlfriend, but I’m still trying to get my money back from HP before I buy a Macbook Plus. And from what I’ve been hearing it might behoove me to wait on the MacBook until the end of the summer to catch the new model and OS.

When I sit in front of the desktop I get into the day-job mentality and I can’t get into a writing mode.

So I’m going to have to start writing by hand. I’ve been reluctant to do this because a) it takes so long and b) I think it’s important to write with two hands to keep both halves of the brain engaged.

But “done is beautiful” and getting somewhere is better than getting nowhere.

10 Comments

  1. mollymillions
    mollymillions on April 10, 2007 at 4:22 pm

    I didn’t twist your arm! 😉

    Reply
  2. tone_milazzo
    tone_milazzo on April 10, 2007 at 4:29 pm

    Girl, you can twist anything you want…

    Reply
  3. jessimuhka
    jessimuhka on April 10, 2007 at 5:50 pm

    If you decide not to wait til the end of summer, you are welcome to mooch the end of my student discount. I think it’s a couple hundred bucks off for the Macbook Pro.

    Reply
  4. the_bone
    the_bone on April 10, 2007 at 10:34 pm

    I think it’s important to write with two hands to keep both halves of the brain engaged.

    And yet, people wrote great novels before the invention of the typewriter.

    Reply
  5. sewyrn
    sewyrn on April 11, 2007 at 1:31 am

    Can’t you get an old used laptop running Win98 for a hundred bucks? You’re just using it as a word processor. Check the PennySaver.

    Reply
  6. anonymous
    anonymous on April 11, 2007 at 6:01 am

    You can use both hands if you get yourself a typewriter…and you can play with the nifty ribbon.

    -Nani

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  7. mollymillions
    mollymillions on April 11, 2007 at 9:25 am

    I’ll keep that in mind, Smoove.

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  8. tone_milazzo
    tone_milazzo on April 11, 2007 at 5:25 pm

    But I don’t think that the dawn of Science Fiction came shortly after the dawn of the typewriter.

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  9. tone_milazzo
    tone_milazzo on April 11, 2007 at 5:26 pm

    I’m thinking about that too, I just need a USB port for my thumbdrive.

    Reply
  10. tone_milazzo
    tone_milazzo on April 11, 2007 at 5:27 pm

    … was a coincidence.

    Reply

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