Were-rabbits and NaNoWriMo

[altivo]

Took the day off work, went to the dentist this morning to have my teeth floated (cleaned.) Got back earlier than expected, and my mate was home (unusual for Thursday, he's usually at his Mom's in the city, but was there Monday so stayed home today.) We decided to go have lunch at Bennigan's and see Nick Park's film Curse of the Were-Rabbit with Wallace and Gromit. It was good. Perhaps not quite as good as Chicken Run but very good and well worth seeing. It even has fursuits! Honest! I give it four apples.

Came home, took care of the various critters, had dinner of leftovers from the freezer and salad from the garden with sliced pears and blue cheese (yum) then back to work on the novel. I'm quitting for the night at 4800+ words, still within reasonable range of steady progress. I suppose this being the third day of 30, I should be at 5000. But things are starting to fall in place so I think it will pick up soon.

Comments

[duskwuff.livejournal.com]

Technical point: You've tagged this with a single tag ("writing films nanowrimo"), rather than three tags ("writing", "films", "nanowrimo"). Use commas to separate tags.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I guess. I haven't been sure that tags are of any value really, so I haven't paid much attention.

[duskwuff.livejournal.com]

The real supposed value of tags is that, if you're consistent in your tag use, I could click "nanowrimo" and see all of your NanoWriMo-related posts. Most useful, I suppose, in busy communities. The real value would show up if you could look at pooled tags (every post by some group of users - perhaps your friends, perhaps the entire site - with given tags), but that isn't happening.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Ah. Somehow it hadn't occurred to me that anyone else might want to search for things in my journal, but that does make some sense. Since I use a client that can do keyword searches in my own back postings, I hadn't seen the value of tags particularly. But that does make sense. Blind spot, I guess. :)