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Weight and writing
Feb. 19th, 2012 11:24 amSo my doctor says I have to lose 20 kilos, and since he's unexpectedly fat-friendly and anti-BMI (and because I've been in denial about being pre-diabetic for a couple of years now), I'm ... doing that. Weight. Losing. Thing.
( All weight-related posts will go under a cut. )
Accordingly, my plans for today are:
- walk to the shops, buy groceries for dinner, tomorrow's lunch
- write words
- tidy embarrassingly messy room
So far the writing of words has not proceeded according to plan. By way of experiment, I downloaded Ommwriter, which provides a low-distraction interface, ambient music and soothing keyboard sounds while you write. It sounds wanky, but it actually works for me.
Well, sort of. I sat down to write a chapter of a novelly-type thing (the world really does need a contemporary Australian boarding school novel. Or at least, the pre-teen girl part of the world does. It's like Malory Towers, but with a social networking policy!) and instead produced 500 words of the Mai/Zuko AU future-fic. Words which I'm pleased with, mind, and they have kissing, but it's not what I was intending. Sometimes I find that particular projects work best in different settings -- short fics go in GoogleDocs, some stories demand to be handwritten (at least at first), apparently the future-fic AU appreciates ambient music, and a boarding school setting calls for Scrivener. (I think it's all the planning options. I bet JKR's problems with maths would have been resolved if she'd had Scrivener.)
( All weight-related posts will go under a cut. )
Accordingly, my plans for today are:
- walk to the shops, buy groceries for dinner, tomorrow's lunch
- write words
- tidy embarrassingly messy room
So far the writing of words has not proceeded according to plan. By way of experiment, I downloaded Ommwriter, which provides a low-distraction interface, ambient music and soothing keyboard sounds while you write. It sounds wanky, but it actually works for me.
Well, sort of. I sat down to write a chapter of a novelly-type thing (the world really does need a contemporary Australian boarding school novel. Or at least, the pre-teen girl part of the world does. It's like Malory Towers, but with a social networking policy!) and instead produced 500 words of the Mai/Zuko AU future-fic. Words which I'm pleased with, mind, and they have kissing, but it's not what I was intending. Sometimes I find that particular projects work best in different settings -- short fics go in GoogleDocs, some stories demand to be handwritten (at least at first), apparently the future-fic AU appreciates ambient music, and a boarding school setting calls for Scrivener. (I think it's all the planning options. I bet JKR's problems with maths would have been resolved if she'd had Scrivener.)
