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May 2004

Urgh

22 May 2004

I think that I need to work on developing my plots/scenes.  I think they need more structure.  I think I have much to learn.  Ugh.
Meanwhile, I’ve been getting my blog caught up – I wrote something like 30 or 40 pages in that in the last couple [...]

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Writing Yahooooos!

19 May 2004

So far, nothing.  I didn’t work on it at all yesterday.  I did, however, work on catching up on my blog, but that has nothing to do with writing my novel.
On another note, I received the May edition of Travel Sri Lanka magazine where I have two [...]

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MAD 10K word day?

19 May 2004

I WANT to do it next week, but I’m so lacking in plot development at the moment that I don’t even have a clue what to work on.  I also don’t know what day – although Monday is out – that always seems to be a day to recover from the weekend! I suspect I’m not [...]

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Black Light? Help!

17 May 2004

I’ve been doing a lot of pondering, and I’ve reached the conclusion that either a. I have a lot I need to learn about scene structure and the dynamics of plotting a novel b. my writing is crap or c. I’m just feeling incredibly insecure about the whole thing.  So I’m [...]

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Progress 6 May 2004

6 May 2004

Monday 5 pages (Placidia – again.)Tuesday 2 pages Wednesday – 0 pages. Thursday through to Sunday – 0 Not so grand total – 7 pages
The touchpad gave me more problems, but then just spontaneously quit giving problems the day before yesterday.  But that, I suspect, is more [...]

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Progress 5 May 2004

5 May 2004

Monday 5 pages (Placidia – again.)Tuesday 2 pages Wednesday – 0 pages.  Computer problems. 
Touchpad on laptop acting up & majorly interfering with doing absolutely anything.  Haven’t got a fix for it yet – still working on it.  Using a mouse instead sometimes helps, but only sometimes.  Spent the day on the internet (first time in [...]

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Progress 4 May 2004

4 May 2004

Monday 5 pages (Placidia – again.)Tuesday 2 pages (drat!  double drat!  need more!!!!!!)
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Dictating to Computer

4 May 2004

One such program that can be used for this is Dragon Naturally Speaking, and it’s supposed to be pretty good.  I have it, and a headset, but I will also admit that I don’t have the patience to train it to understand me properly.  Although, as I think about it, the [...]

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Progress 3 May 2004

3 May 2004

Monday 5 pages (Placidia – again.)
When I set the goal, I forgot about the holidays this week.  Tuesday is Vesak Poya Day, which is the major Poya festival of the year.  There’s a Poya day every full moon – tonnes of holidays here!  Wednesday is officially the [...]

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May’s BIW Goal

2 May 2004

I’m shooting for 100 pages.
I haven’t yet decided which project I might work on.  They’re all SF, for the record.  I could work on. . .
Children of the Dome.  Children of lab workers are trapped in a day care centre when a secret lab in the basement of a shopping mall blows up and the [...]

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