by Suw on September 15, 2005
Got half my chapter written today. 1800 words. Could have been more – I'd been hoping to finish the first draft in one fell swoop – but I was feeling rather ropey this afternoon and found it hard to focus. With any luck, I'll polish off this draft tomorrow and then can let it sit for a few days.
Also have come up with a proposal for Etech 2006, officially The Conference I Most Want To Speak At. Very pleased with it, which probably means it's shite.
Now have just a half dozen more things to do before I can collapse gratefully into bed.
by Suw on September 15, 2005
Anyone know of any? Or are you one yourself? Please email me if you are (pref UK-based).
Thanks.
by Suw on September 15, 2005
OK, so here's a thing. If I want to run multiple offline blogs on my iBook which will never be published online, but still have basic blog functionality – like categories, permalinks, search – what software should I use? Can I set up MT or WordPress locally like that without having to do weird shit to my iBook to make it work?
UPDATE: Thanks to Tom, I now have WordPress installed locally and can make blogs to my highly systemised heart's content. It even plays nicely with Ecto. Oooh PKM heaven! (PKM == Personal Knowledge Management, to you normal people.)
by Suw on September 15, 2005
… does it take to write a book?
Hmm.
How long is a piece of string?
How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?
How many dustbunnies can live underneath a sofa?
How many words can I write a day? Except, I won't write 1000 words a day, or even 500 words a day. Some days I'll write none, and other days I'll go berserk and write 3000 or more. How many screenshots can I use? Can I just write 'the' 125,000 times?
Am I nuts for taking this on, at this time, when I already have ORG happening, which seems to expand to fill my brain and all available time as soon as I wake in the morning, not to mention a Clients Who Pay Real Money? But then, if my aim is to become a real proper author I'm going to have to, y'know, actually write a book at some point. Otherwise I'm just someone with auctorial aspirations.
I think I need to consult with the angels and the dustbunnies. Maybe they have a better idea, because I'm not sure that 'Dear publisher, I think it's going to take me $random_guess months to write this book' is going to work so well.
