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Posted on 09/07/2006 10:11:42 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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Yeah yeah yeah...
I'll get everything packed up today prolly :~)
Good morning!
Morning Corin....late condolences for the stupidity of VA voters.......not that our FL voters were any better by keeping Nelson.
IBTM!
(In Before The Move)
Ha! I got the same thing!
Good morning HH!
~sip~
Microsoft Office error....at least that's what a Google search brings up. Can you reinstall MS Office?
As I recall, Findfast is an indexer program of sorts - supposed to make it faster if you go to search for files in Office, but mostly it just slows the computer down. I'd disable it.
How to disable it in Office 2000:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/199787
How to disable it in Office 97:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/158705
Feeling better this morning? Wish you could see the weather here, it's sunny. Cold, but clear. I am sure I will be hating Iowa in a couple months/weeks but for now it's not bad.
I sat down and wrote 3k yesterday, the final 1k in a half hour "I just want to finish this scene, then we'll watch something" mode. It got easy and I think I know where I'm going next. I still want to finish this! My goal for this morning is 30k.
As for your plot hole, does your female character have anyone she cares about and is slightly responsible for? Like a little brother? Someone she could be blackmailed with? What is her background, is there anyone in it who would help her get away even though she's slightly evil?
Hey ksen, what are you doing here? :-)
I know what you mean. I realized last night that having an actual plot in Part 1 of my story means Part 1 actually breaks into two parts. Which changes the structure of the story from four parts with the crisis point at the end of part two, to five parts with the crisis at the end of part three. Or possibly four parts with the crisis at the end of part three and all the resolution in one 'part' but I'm thinking it'll be two. Plus I'm now inserting the "I'm going to spend 7k words telling you what happened twenty-five years ago" section and I just realized that the person telling it doesn't know one of the most crucial parts.... argh...
I still have no idea how I'm going to piece it all together. Right now I have two separate narratives, but they don't run in parallel, so if I alternate chapters, one narrative will be giving away stuff I don't want to give away yet.
It's kind of a mess. But I guess that's why it's called a *rough* draft
Heh...last night I dreamed I met up with you and Talon at some mall in Canada.
We were mostly buying Smarties and Crunchie bars.
I'm not sure how that should be interpreted...
Do it in largish chunks. Like "Part One" is one person's and "Part B" is someone else's. You'll have to structure it so the parts are similar in length and have a good story arc to them but I've seen that done quite successfully in various SF stories I've read.
Ok, done with breakfast, made dinner (crock pot roast. With wine. So we have a wine that automatically goes with dinner). Goal today: write. Making a pecan pie tomorrow to take to Thanksgiving in Chicago but as Talon said, we can't make it today unless we make two :-)
TurkeyMoot was just about a year ago. Wow.
I think everyone here is mashed potatoes (no that there's anything wrong with that). Me too.
I tried another test, with results more to my liking.
| You Are a German Shepherd Puppy |
 You've got the jaw power to take a bite out of anyone you choose. |
| You Are a Chihuahua Puppy |
 You do best in the city with a adults - young kids could crush you! |
Morning, Now that's a pair of sawhorses; the Clydesdales of the sawhorse world.
| You Are a Chow Puppy |
 You're an independent spirit that won't be tied down. |
| You Are a German Shepherd Puppy |
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You've got the jaw power to take a bite out of anyone you choose. |
| You Are a Dalmation Puppy |
 Firemen love to pat your little head. |
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