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New computer has been mercifully problemless so far. It's running Vista, so everything looks wrong and I haven't got it all figured out yet, but I disabled the UAC and a bunch of other stuff so it no longer asks me if I want to allow everything.
It wasn't annoying me too much until I noticed it didn't remember things, and I'm not forgiving enough to put up with having to tell it YES I AM SURE every time I try to open anything.
I AM, HOWEVER, MOST SORROWFUL ABOUT MY LOSS OF WALLPAPERS. :(
( COMPUTER BLAHBLAH )
Enough of that. November! You and your WRITING, man, I dunno. I like NaNoWriMo. I don't think I've ever really made the 50k word goal, but I've never minded. I can't write like that. I can't toss my inner editor aside and just write. I think it's really awesome that some people can, and do, but I cannot. I look at November more as a month where I say, look, self, just write something, yeah? And that works. I do write more in November than I do every other month of the year (...possibly combined). I don't always finish what I start, but it gets me writing, and that's my real goal for the month.
As I said perhaps more coherently to someone in an Instant Messenger conversation this afternoon: I dunno, I'm amazed by people who do write 50k in November (or more!) but I can't do it. I can't just write 50k words blindly. I do like using it as a starting point, though. IT IS NOVEMBER YOU WILL WRITE not, It is November and you will write anything and everything because OMG WORDCOUNT (or should that be, "it is the eleventh month of the year, which is to say, November, and you can and will write both and and every single that occurs to you throughout that month because hitting your word count goal of fifty thousand words is entirely more important than anything silly like reason or sense or even coherency."?).
So right now I've got about seven WIPs I've been poking around at, and I'm at a dead end in all of them, so maybe I'll try to start yet another one tomorrow, or maybe I'll just sit on them until I come up with something. BUT WRITING! Yay, me!
It wasn't annoying me too much until I noticed it didn't remember things, and I'm not forgiving enough to put up with having to tell it YES I AM SURE every time I try to open anything.
I AM, HOWEVER, MOST SORROWFUL ABOUT MY LOSS OF WALLPAPERS. :(
( COMPUTER BLAHBLAH )
Enough of that. November! You and your WRITING, man, I dunno. I like NaNoWriMo. I don't think I've ever really made the 50k word goal, but I've never minded. I can't write like that. I can't toss my inner editor aside and just write. I think it's really awesome that some people can, and do, but I cannot. I look at November more as a month where I say, look, self, just write something, yeah? And that works. I do write more in November than I do every other month of the year (...possibly combined). I don't always finish what I start, but it gets me writing, and that's my real goal for the month.
As I said perhaps more coherently to someone in an Instant Messenger conversation this afternoon: I dunno, I'm amazed by people who do write 50k in November (or more!) but I can't do it. I can't just write 50k words blindly. I do like using it as a starting point, though. IT IS NOVEMBER YOU WILL WRITE not, It is November and you will write anything and everything because OMG WORDCOUNT (or should that be, "it is the eleventh month of the year, which is to say, November, and you can and will write both and and every single that occurs to you throughout that month because hitting your word count goal of fifty thousand words is entirely more important than anything silly like reason or sense or even coherency."?).
So right now I've got about seven WIPs I've been poking around at, and I'm at a dead end in all of them, so maybe I'll try to start yet another one tomorrow, or maybe I'll just sit on them until I come up with something. BUT WRITING! Yay, me!
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