small annoyances

[redbird]

I was going to make lamb patties for dinner. I started cooking the rice, and made cucumber salad. Then I took the defrosted lamb out of the plastic bag, put it in a bowl, and sniffed. Sniffed again. Called cattitude for a second opinion. He confirmed my suspicions, and I threw the lamb away. We wound up sending out for food, and not using the boiled rice either (I'd let it finish cooking because there's no point not, once it's in the pot.) but at least we had cucumber salad to go with our lamb briyani.

After copying my nanowrimo files to floppy, I hit the power button instead of the floppy eject button. Rebooting and running scandisk was a small nuisance; the moment when I thought I'd lost the beginning of chapter 3 was more than a nuisance. I found it on the floppy, told the system to copy, and was asked if I wanted to overwrite. Yes, it's there--it just wasn't one of the n most recently edited files, so it wasn't turning up on that file list in Word. But it's there.

I'm actually writing a novel. How weird. And ahead of my target thus far (which is 2000 words/day, to allow for the three days at alt.polycon, when I don't expect to write anything significant). Cattitude suggests I allow one day off a week, in addition; I'm not sure if that's a really good idea, or a bad one (because I'll lose momentum, or something).

Comments

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

2000 words a day is A LOT to sustain, at least in my experience. I try to have a 1000-word goal, and I can usually meet that, but it can be hard and it takes work. Dunno; maybe fiction goes faster.

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[pickledginger.livejournal.com]

Oh, go ahead and allow for one day off a week - doesn't mean you have to *take* it, but it'll be there if you need it. And if not, you're ahead of schedule!