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11月27日 A nerd's guide to writing toolsIt's been a hell of a week. Work's full-on, we're still waiting to hear if the car's been written off. I haven't started Christmas shopping and I've a load of other stuff that's begging to be sorted.
Roughly translated, this is all bollocks. While the facts are right, I've been using them as an excuse to avoid writing. Fortunately my new toy, an Asus EEE PC arrived last week. This is a truly great piece of kit and I can see why they're pretty much sold out everywhere. It's a hardback book-sized laptop that costs less that £200 (if you ignore VAT). It comes with Xandros Linux pre-installed - which is OK (it can also run Windows XP). I've wiped the SSD drive and installed Ubuntu instead. It totally flies and Ywriter 3 runs well under Wine (although it will lock up if you go full-screen without having Wine set to virtual desktop). Ywriter 4 doesn't start - but I'm sure I could invest some time in getting it running.
There I go again. I'm even avoiding writing about writing. Which as about as circular a time waste as you could ever create.
The EEE PC is a great tool for writing on trains. I bashed out nearly a 1000 words on the way home last night. Which would have been great if, at 3:30am* this morning I hadn't decided to ditch them. This chapter would have seen our hero taken off to have most of the plot explained to him by someone in the know, then sent out to muddle his way through. Utter, utter shite. It reminded me of every dodgy adventure/Dan Brown novel where the clueless protagonist can only get through by having other characters wave big fucking signs that say "Next Clue This Way --->". I don't want to treat either readers, or my characters, like idiots so it had to go. I know how I'm going to replace it and, importantly, the new chapter will be more in keeping with the style of the book.
I'm going to skip lunch to work on this with the aim of getting at least that chapter done by tomorrow night. And losing a couple of pounds. Very important at this stage of life. *I suffer from recurring bouts of insomnia. These come out of nowhere and typically last a couple of weeks. I'm just entering one now, which means the last couple of nights have seen me wake up at least half-a-dozen times. Ironically, for the first week or so, I feel better than ever in the mornings. By week two I'm a bad-ass coffee drinking arsehole with a short-temper and even shorter memory. 评论 (2)
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