Breaking even
Nov. 8th, 2010 10:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
altivoStill on target, but no advances today. The reasons for that in a moment.
Nanowrimo word count: 14257 (1642 today)
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Henry's funeral, finished.
Mercury must be retrograde or something. By the time I got home I was fit to be tied from irritating computer glitches, stupid questions, and generally enough impetus to make a real luddite of me. I got little writing done at lunchtime due to interruptions.
After supper I sat down to write only to find that the little word processing keyboard I've been using was playing dead. "Batteries" I thought, since they hadn't been replaced in a year, but that wasn't it. I couldn't wake it up until all the batteries, including the memory backup coin cell, were pulled and replaced. Then it came up, minus the 450 words I'd written at lunch and now had to write again. I thought I'd backed them up into the secondary memory but they weren't there. Too many interruptions, messed up my standard procedure.
So, about a thousand words into today's installment, the comma key quit working. I have another identical machine, and it developed the same problem last year in the middle of the NaNo. I pulled it out and checked. No, the comma works on that one now. Finished what I was writing, substituting * for commas. Transferred the file, processed as usual, plus the global replace to change * back to comma. Word count short by 25 words or so, but that's insignificant. Reported everything, and uploaded the file to Google Docs, my cloud storage for this project. Google Docs says there are 1667 words. What? No, Open Office still says 1642. No doubt the official counter will say something different yet again.
Anyway, done for the day, and it's a good thing. Tomorrow had better go more smoothly.
Nanowrimo word count: 14257 (1642 today)
Sponsor me!Story draft available here.
Henry's funeral, finished.
Mercury must be retrograde or something. By the time I got home I was fit to be tied from irritating computer glitches, stupid questions, and generally enough impetus to make a real luddite of me. I got little writing done at lunchtime due to interruptions.
After supper I sat down to write only to find that the little word processing keyboard I've been using was playing dead. "Batteries" I thought, since they hadn't been replaced in a year, but that wasn't it. I couldn't wake it up until all the batteries, including the memory backup coin cell, were pulled and replaced. Then it came up, minus the 450 words I'd written at lunch and now had to write again. I thought I'd backed them up into the secondary memory but they weren't there. Too many interruptions, messed up my standard procedure.
So, about a thousand words into today's installment, the comma key quit working. I have another identical machine, and it developed the same problem last year in the middle of the NaNo. I pulled it out and checked. No, the comma works on that one now. Finished what I was writing, substituting * for commas. Transferred the file, processed as usual, plus the global replace to change * back to comma. Word count short by 25 words or so, but that's insignificant. Reported everything, and uploaded the file to Google Docs, my cloud storage for this project. Google Docs says there are 1667 words. What? No, Open Office still says 1642. No doubt the official counter will say something different yet again.
Anyway, done for the day, and it's a good thing. Tomorrow had better go more smoothly.
