The halfway point in Arkatyr exactly halfway through the second day. I am on form and right on schedule to finish the book at my goal length of 75,000 words
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Re: *waving the flag*robertsloan2September 2 2008, 06:06:10 UTC
Awwww how could I turn down that face? I'll get her Cat-Ass-Trophy print listed tomorrow! Right now I'm sitting here reeling with my annual "I can't believe I wrote the whole thing" brainfuzz moment, but I will do prints tomorrow. Promise. It will go up with a Buy It Now price too so you can grab it fast.
Weird about your new laptop your not being able to see the screen outside. I haven't tried taking mine outdoors though, maybe it isn't that visible either. OpenOffice is a free download word processor like Word and just as powerful and can do Doc files but it's a memory hog if you don't have enough RAM to run it easily. I had it about three computers ago and never used it because I like Roughdraft better. Roughdraft is a simple lightweight donationware word processor designed for writers with lots of little writer perks like word count and so on and ease of doing manuscript format or scripts format in it. But not so many bells and whistles that it didn't run on much lower RAM than I have. I've downloaded it every computer since 2000 and it always ran light wherever I was. Does RTF and TXT files and has the handy PAD text file attachment for little notes on the side of the typing window. I always throw the Cast List and place names and that stuff in consecutive order in the Pad files so that I can check name spelling continuously and rememer who was that bloke with the wooden leg four chapters ago. And what was teh name of his cat?
I have been noticing these weird little mini-mini laptops coming up at Tiger Direct for $399 or so -- they're more like Palm Pilots or something with MB of storage instead of gigs, seven inch screens, actual keyboards, and weigh very little but are type-in rather than stylus driven. If I get rich I may try one as the "carry it around" thing, that or just get an Alphasmart which has a lappie size keyboard, calculator type screen, no xtras and word processing software but uploads to your real computer.
Alphasmarts are designed to be a writing machine specificalyl and good for well, writing without getting distracted by something cool on Yahoo news or doing your mail or whatnot. A lot of Wrimos swear by them. They're also cheap. More like $200 or $150 or so than laptop pricing but very bare bones. I would want to look at one in a store and take it into the sun to see how easy it is to see the text before getting it though if the object is just "a thing to type in outdoors." THe older ones run on Normal Batteries rather than fancy laptop type batteries so that is longer battery life with pocket of normal ones than with the laptops.
There are alot of solutions to outdoor writing. But I may actually just try taking my laptop outside sometime. I didn't this weekend though. Gods I was just -- totally focused and didn't get out of my chair. Hehehe like your hubby, a lot like him. Get him into trying a 3 Day Novel next year! It's $50 to do it officially if he wants, or he could do it unofficially to see if he can.
I was going to pay the entry fee but ran out of money and did something else. So there it goes, next year is when I go writing something for Canadian Small Literary Press and try to win.
Weird about your new laptop your not being able to see the screen outside. I haven't tried taking mine outdoors though, maybe it isn't that visible either. OpenOffice is a free download word processor like Word and just as powerful and can do Doc files but it's a memory hog if you don't have enough RAM to run it easily. I had it about three computers ago and never used it because I like Roughdraft better. Roughdraft is a simple lightweight donationware word processor designed for writers with lots of little writer perks like word count and so on and ease of doing manuscript format or scripts format in it. But not so many bells and whistles that it didn't run on much lower RAM than I have. I've downloaded it every computer since 2000 and it always ran light wherever I was. Does RTF and TXT files and has the handy PAD text file attachment for little notes on the side of the typing window. I always throw the Cast List and place names and that stuff in consecutive order in the Pad files so that I can check name spelling continuously and rememer who was that bloke with the wooden leg four chapters ago. And what was teh name of his cat?
I have been noticing these weird little mini-mini laptops coming up at Tiger Direct for $399 or so -- they're more like Palm Pilots or something with MB of storage instead of gigs, seven inch screens, actual keyboards, and weigh very little but are type-in rather than stylus driven. If I get rich I may try one as the "carry it around" thing, that or just get an Alphasmart which has a lappie size keyboard, calculator type screen, no xtras and word processing software but uploads to your real computer.
Alphasmarts are designed to be a writing machine specificalyl and good for well, writing without getting distracted by something cool on Yahoo news or doing your mail or whatnot. A lot of Wrimos swear by them. They're also cheap. More like $200 or $150 or so than laptop pricing but very bare bones. I would want to look at one in a store and take it into the sun to see how easy it is to see the text before getting it though if the object is just "a thing to type in outdoors." THe older ones run on Normal Batteries rather than fancy laptop type batteries so that is longer battery life with pocket of normal ones than with the laptops.
There are alot of solutions to outdoor writing. But I may actually just try taking my laptop outside sometime. I didn't this weekend though. Gods I was just -- totally focused and didn't get out of my chair. Hehehe like your hubby, a lot like him. Get him into trying a 3 Day Novel next year! It's $50 to do it officially if he wants, or he could do it unofficially to see if he can.
I was going to pay the entry fee but ran out of money and did something else. So there it goes, next year is when I go writing something for Canadian Small Literary Press and try to win.
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