Monday ....

[tamaranth]

1. I survived Novacon 34. At least I think I did. My blood pressure monitor gave up on Saturday morning and says I am dead (I assume this is what "Err" signifies).

2. Happy birthday, lproven!

3.

20,539 / 50,000 (41.0%)

(Not bad, with a convention in the way.)

4. Have lost the plot. It is a single sheet of A4, folded twice. I'm sure I had it when I got home last night. (Thanks to sneerpout & mr_tom for sparing me the miseries of Sunday train services!)

5. Borders event tonight with Jon Courtenay Grimwood and someone else. I may skip this one ...

Comments

[lostcarpark.livejournal.com]

I hate you.

No, I don't hate you, just your word count.

[ajshepherd.livejournal.com]

So if I see you stumbling about saying "Braiiinnssss" I'll assume it's more then a hangover, then...

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

they're not all especially good words. May have sacrificed quality for quantity this weekend. But my primary aim is to finish the story -- then I can go back and revise, polish, poeticise ...

[lostcarpark.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's the idea. Need to convince myself of it.

[camies.livejournal.com]

No, your word count astonishes me. I'm at 8,850.

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

lack of time, or lack of enthusiasm?

[camies.livejournal.com]

No lack of enthusiasm; but I still have a day job, and on Friday went first to buy a camera battery and then (with camera and battery) to Lewes to film the processions, and on Saturday to Kingston to look at houses, and then to Guildford to see my stepmother - all of which by car, so no writing on the train as might otherwise have been.
Until yesterday evening didn't know the Palmtop has a virtual keyboard so decided it was no good for writing on unless I had a separate keyboard. Sunday I did some writing and must have done 3,000 words over the weekend.

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

I still have a day job too ... and some freelance stuff ...
Following a year of getting into some of the good habits promoted in Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way, I find my best time for clear, uninterrupted writing is first thing in the morning. An hour this morning produced 1200 words. Later in the day I tend to be more distracted -- and at this time of year writing in the evening is a no-no, as I'm often asleep by ten.

[camies.livejournal.com]

I'll try that then. I've read "Becoming a Writer" but not "The Artist's Way" and may give it a look based on that (this Julia Cameron being a different Julia Cameron from the 19th-century photographer, I expect). Seriously, was up at 6 this morning and did some writing but not a lot.

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

Cameron insists on 'morning pages' -- three pages of freehand about absolutely anything, written before you do anything else, every day. I do skip -- and often I whine -- but I'm sure it's got me into the habit of writing, and free-associating, first thing in the morning before I get up. And writing 1000 words (which is a Chapter, yay, because I know how big my mental building blocks are) is much more fun than 3 pages of what-I-did-yesterday.

[major-clanger.livejournal.com]

...and says I am dead

Well, all I can say is that you were doing a very bad job of it. There were far more convincing corpses there, Your Humble Correspondent included.

41%
Am V Impressed.

Alas, I'm not doing NaNoWriMo. Trying to fit it in with Worldcon, Eastercon, SFF, Clarke Award etc turned out not to be an option. Also, I want to catch up on some reading, and indeed I now have all of Mr Stephenson's very thick books on my shelf.

MC

[lproven.livejournal.com]

Thankyou!

Want your pressie before it hitchhikes to you?

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

Given antiquity of pressie, perhaps a photo?!

You should've brought it to Walsall ...