(written 12.06.05, 5pm): This is how I revise. My directory structure’s usually set up like this: Series Directory Book Title (original files in here) 2nd draft 3rd draft Once the original drafts are done and I’m going into revisions, I take the latest draft and copy it into a new directory. If, like with HoS, I’ve done *lots* of revisions already, the old directory usually gets renamed to define what the biggest change I made in that pass was–in this case, it’s been renamed “Revisions for Structure”. The…
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and tuesday…
(written 12.06.05, 11:31am): Evidently there are monthly (and annual) train passes. This is good. They’re expensive, considerably more expensive than the Caltrain equivilant for distance (at least the Caltrain equivilant five years ago, which was the last time I used Caltrain regularly), but they’re about half the cost of paying daily, so that’s good. It may curtail my plans to go into Dublin a couple times a week down to just once, but that’ll probably be okay. more behind the cut…
monday…
written 12.05.05, 2:14pm: The chairs at our house are not as good for sitting in and writing as the chairs at Mom & Dad’s house. Too straight-backed, I think. I note this from several seconds worth of observation, not the hours one might expect me to have put in by 2:15 in the afternoon. But oh, no, I bought a big fat Mary Gentle book last night while we were in Dublin, and made the mistake of not being able to finish it in one evening. (Not, at least, without…
catching up!
written 2 December 2005, 1536 hours: Apparently not being online doesn’t stop me from wanting to write journal entries, so I’m doing so even though I probably won’t be able to post this until Monday. Good news: the internet cafe up the street has wireless, so we can in fact post and be in at least reasonably regular email contact with our usual email addresses while we wait to get our own network. I’d like to say I’ll probably only haul my laptop down there every other day, but c’mon,…
oh dear :/
Ted called from London. The pets are in quarantine for ~2 days, because the flea and tick treatment expired while they were in transit and so has to be readministered. We don’t yet know if one of us will have to fly to London on Saturday and fly back with the pets. Ted was very, very tired and said he just wanted a shower and some sleep. Poor guy. I don’t know how Shaun’s doing. I’m thinking if one of us has to go over, it’ll probably be me (so…