I feel like I’m updating this thing every twenty minutes, but swear to God, it’s a sanity-maintaining measure. Writing down what I’m accomplishing (or not) makes a significant difference to my brain.
And man. I feel like I have not accomplished a lot today. In fact, I’ve gotten more than forty pages of stuff revised, the scene that needed punching has been punched and I like it, I think the next scene works even better now, and the all-new scene I’m working on will set up a bunch of the things that I said I’d do in the synopsis and utterly failed to do in the book. Things that should be done. I don’t know why I don’t feel like I’ve gotten much done. I’m more than halfway to my goal for the day, and if I can get this scene…and the two after it…done, then it’s back to adding in things from the original manuscript and that’ll finish me off for the day. I haven’t even clawed for the new pages I’ve gotten today, other than just too many days in a row of doing this, so I donno what’s up with my brain. (This is like an internal pep talk that what, like 250 people, get to read.)
I haven’t walked yet today. But Ted, who is the best husband, did insist I get out of the house, and we went over to Carlow to see if we could find a printer. We couldn’t. Apparently people in this country don’t need laser printers to print out thousands of pages of manuscript material in a month, or something. Weirdos.
Have you considered just ordering something? The Dell laptop that I used to use for work was made in Ireland, so maybe they manufacture printers there as well and shipping won’t be too terrible. Or you could be a hedonist and take it out to a print shop.
How about Lease of a copier/printer? Think tax deduction, and when bust “friendly” servicetech comes and fixes it. Also when broken they replace it with new lease agreement.