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latest decision in regards to thesertation:
1) I need either like four monitors or one really really huge one so I can see several pages of this thing at once.
Preferably it'd be separate monitors and I'd have non-adjoining pages on separate monitors, so I could drag paragraphs from one section to another at will. This would need someone special to talk it through with the computer first, I'm sure. Unless I just had four separate copies of it up... but then when I dragged stuff into, say, the master copy I'd have to search through it and delete the parts that got dragged from other places...
As you can see, I procrastinate by figuring through logistics. If I had a huge screen I'd display four pages on one frame but the screen'd be big enough to read the words. Almost as good. The best I can do is to print it. Not a bad idea, anyway, having a hard copy of what I've got so far.
2) I want a formatting option for MS Word that automatically excludes block quotes from the word count.
I've got, eh, 3300-ish minus the quotes. In that introductory meeting in May Jeff gave 4k as a bottom limit -- though for me he said I might flip the intro (6k) and analysis (4k) numbers cause mine's so interview-dependent. But then later in the same meeting he said I have so much to introduce that I may need the 6k for the intro. So basically, I'm just going to get my 15,000 words however they come out. Re analysis, I still have the entire Motivations heading to write, though I think I've at least brushed on every other section.
It's farmers' market day and I'm desperately out of food; in addition I'm going to investigate one more potential quaich place if I go out. But I had to write yesterday off as mostly a loss in terms of writing, and I'm going at a decent clip on this writing right now. If I need not to leave, then I won't leave. I'll get food at Tesco, and if K goes out I'll ask her to look at the quaich sitch.
Giving Google Chrome a try, seeing as how my boyfriend works for Google and all. What'll take some getting used to is the lack of accessories on the top and bottom of my browser.
1) I need either like four monitors or one really really huge one so I can see several pages of this thing at once.
Preferably it'd be separate monitors and I'd have non-adjoining pages on separate monitors, so I could drag paragraphs from one section to another at will. This would need someone special to talk it through with the computer first, I'm sure. Unless I just had four separate copies of it up... but then when I dragged stuff into, say, the master copy I'd have to search through it and delete the parts that got dragged from other places...
As you can see, I procrastinate by figuring through logistics. If I had a huge screen I'd display four pages on one frame but the screen'd be big enough to read the words. Almost as good. The best I can do is to print it. Not a bad idea, anyway, having a hard copy of what I've got so far.
2) I want a formatting option for MS Word that automatically excludes block quotes from the word count.
I've got, eh, 3300-ish minus the quotes. In that introductory meeting in May Jeff gave 4k as a bottom limit -- though for me he said I might flip the intro (6k) and analysis (4k) numbers cause mine's so interview-dependent. But then later in the same meeting he said I have so much to introduce that I may need the 6k for the intro. So basically, I'm just going to get my 15,000 words however they come out. Re analysis, I still have the entire Motivations heading to write, though I think I've at least brushed on every other section.
It's farmers' market day and I'm desperately out of food; in addition I'm going to investigate one more potential quaich place if I go out. But I had to write yesterday off as mostly a loss in terms of writing, and I'm going at a decent clip on this writing right now. If I need not to leave, then I won't leave. I'll get food at Tesco, and if K goes out I'll ask her to look at the quaich sitch.
Giving Google Chrome a try, seeing as how my boyfriend works for Google and all. What'll take some getting used to is the lack of accessories on the top and bottom of my browser.