Splitting wood for the Folks in Need, Lots of WORDS
Entry for Friday, 8 January 2010
I really find Scrivener the best way for me to get words on the screen. I found a way to see progress whilst typing with head down and eyes nearly closed (spell checker is, of course, turned off when I'm doing this). The program allows for session goals and project goals. There are no "Percent completed" bars or some such. It just counts words and shows the increasing number during work. It's another nice feature that I didn't know was there until I found it while looking for something else.
The wood splitter got a serious workout today. The town has been storing all the tree trunks, branches and whatnot that are cleared from the roads after a storm. That wood used to be chopped up or chipped and put in the landfill. The men's group in town found out about this and asked that the wood be stored at the recycle center where we congregate on an irregular basis to cut and split the wood for folks in need. Today was one such event. I volunteered my splitter and six other folks showed up with chainsaw and hand-wielded splitting mauls. The work went quickly enough three folks on the machine and plenty of cleared space for the maul handlers. Three hours later, the spit wood was in the storage shed and the several nearly frozen workers managed to drive off with all appendages intact. Smiles for the town and good neighbors.
Put 2000 more words into "HelpYourself" - the novel that I worked on in November's NaNoWriMo. I felt good about the continuing story that has the characters getting closer and closer. The plot lines remind me of unstable stars that orbit each other until they all collapse into a single catastrophic event (in this case it will be the story's climax. I think it will work out. There are two characters that still need to meet face to face and resolve some issues in their individual past experiences. They help each other with this task and in doing realize that there is a place for friendship and deserved loyalty that will result in overcoming the next hurdle. It's getting very interesting. I'm keen to find out how it will all come out (and I've read the outline).
More later,
Doc
Grade: 6.8
I really find Scrivener the best way for me to get words on the screen. I found a way to see progress whilst typing with head down and eyes nearly closed (spell checker is, of course, turned off when I'm doing this). The program allows for session goals and project goals. There are no "Percent completed" bars or some such. It just counts words and shows the increasing number during work. It's another nice feature that I didn't know was there until I found it while looking for something else.
The wood splitter got a serious workout today. The town has been storing all the tree trunks, branches and whatnot that are cleared from the roads after a storm. That wood used to be chopped up or chipped and put in the landfill. The men's group in town found out about this and asked that the wood be stored at the recycle center where we congregate on an irregular basis to cut and split the wood for folks in need. Today was one such event. I volunteered my splitter and six other folks showed up with chainsaw and hand-wielded splitting mauls. The work went quickly enough three folks on the machine and plenty of cleared space for the maul handlers. Three hours later, the spit wood was in the storage shed and the several nearly frozen workers managed to drive off with all appendages intact. Smiles for the town and good neighbors.
Put 2000 more words into "HelpYourself" - the novel that I worked on in November's NaNoWriMo. I felt good about the continuing story that has the characters getting closer and closer. The plot lines remind me of unstable stars that orbit each other until they all collapse into a single catastrophic event (in this case it will be the story's climax. I think it will work out. There are two characters that still need to meet face to face and resolve some issues in their individual past experiences. They help each other with this task and in doing realize that there is a place for friendship and deserved loyalty that will result in overcoming the next hurdle. It's getting very interesting. I'm keen to find out how it will all come out (and I've read the outline).
More later,
Doc
Grade: 6.8