I have been both busy and not feeling well. I'm trying to get back into doing all these little things like the weekly blog post, but it keeps getting lost in the piles of other things.
Though writing wise, still doing okay. On Sunday I crossed the 500,000 word mark for the year. My major project is still Tales of Grey Station 9 and I'm a bit over half way on it. The final version is going to end up close to or over 200,000 words.
Dusty & Friends is up to the third 1k entry. Writing those little pieces takes an entirely different approach from a sprawling novel. That reminds me of something one person once said (and she claimed to be an expert): Writing novels is easier than writing short stories because you can make mistakes and it doesn't matter.
I remember reading that line several times and shaking my head. Make mistakes -- and just leave them. Don't worry. The story is so long that no one will notice, unlike with her short stories which had to be perfect.
I am amazed, sometimes, at the things people say about writing.
I have one huge non-writing project right now. The ezine I published for 15 years stopped publication two years ago. (Honestly, it seems a lot longer.) A good part of it has been sitting on an out of date Joomla! site. Since there will no longer be any updates, I don't need anything that fancy and I really don't want to have to keep updating it, so I am copying off articles and preparing for a simple html site. Nothing fancy at all, but with easy links to the categories and such.
Shouldn't be hard, right?
660 articles on the Joomla! site. At least that many, and maybe more, that have to be moved from an even older site and added in to the newer articles.
I've copied over 200 articles so far. And this is where I sing the praises of Scrivener. I have copied files over (both html and text, depending on the article -- but I'll probably stick with text after this) and used the little synopsis card on the right to list the title, category, author, and Vision Issue. This will make it very easy to sort everything out into whatever group I want later.
But yeah, it is a lot of work. Non-writing work, which is hard for me. I do some of it, take a break to write, and then do more.
Over the next two weeks I hope to get most of the Joomla! material copied. Then I'll copy all the others into Scrivener as well -- though I wonder if it has a limit on word count/file size/whatever? I'll have to watch that and divide it into more than one set if that happens.
This isn't what I had been planning to do. I think fondly of the outlines I should be writing -- but the site had developed some problems and my provider would like some changes. I'm doing the change that should mean I won't have to do it again.
Sometimes you just can't write. Real life (or something like it for me) steps in and other stuff has to be done.
But still -- half a million words so far this year. I can't complain!
Though writing wise, still doing okay. On Sunday I crossed the 500,000 word mark for the year. My major project is still Tales of Grey Station 9 and I'm a bit over half way on it. The final version is going to end up close to or over 200,000 words.
Dusty & Friends is up to the third 1k entry. Writing those little pieces takes an entirely different approach from a sprawling novel. That reminds me of something one person once said (and she claimed to be an expert): Writing novels is easier than writing short stories because you can make mistakes and it doesn't matter.
I remember reading that line several times and shaking my head. Make mistakes -- and just leave them. Don't worry. The story is so long that no one will notice, unlike with her short stories which had to be perfect.
I am amazed, sometimes, at the things people say about writing.
I have one huge non-writing project right now. The ezine I published for 15 years stopped publication two years ago. (Honestly, it seems a lot longer.) A good part of it has been sitting on an out of date Joomla! site. Since there will no longer be any updates, I don't need anything that fancy and I really don't want to have to keep updating it, so I am copying off articles and preparing for a simple html site. Nothing fancy at all, but with easy links to the categories and such.
Shouldn't be hard, right?
660 articles on the Joomla! site. At least that many, and maybe more, that have to be moved from an even older site and added in to the newer articles.
I've copied over 200 articles so far. And this is where I sing the praises of Scrivener. I have copied files over (both html and text, depending on the article -- but I'll probably stick with text after this) and used the little synopsis card on the right to list the title, category, author, and Vision Issue. This will make it very easy to sort everything out into whatever group I want later.
But yeah, it is a lot of work. Non-writing work, which is hard for me. I do some of it, take a break to write, and then do more.
Over the next two weeks I hope to get most of the Joomla! material copied. Then I'll copy all the others into Scrivener as well -- though I wonder if it has a limit on word count/file size/whatever? I'll have to watch that and divide it into more than one set if that happens.
This isn't what I had been planning to do. I think fondly of the outlines I should be writing -- but the site had developed some problems and my provider would like some changes. I'm doing the change that should mean I won't have to do it again.
Sometimes you just can't write. Real life (or something like it for me) steps in and other stuff has to be done.
But still -- half a million words so far this year. I can't complain!
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