Umm... does anyone have a cure for aching arms and wrists? I haven't been able to do any real typing for the past two days because my right arm and all my fingers are in agony. From too much typing.
Is it RSI-related? I know some stretching exercises which can alleviate some RSI pain - are you going to be at CWIL tomorrow? (Difficult to describe online!)
Immediately, I'd suggest getting a hot water bottle or something else heat-giving and resting it on your wrists and forearms.
Although some people (ok, I) find that switching the mouse to the left hand merely results in complete loss of mouse control. Ambidextrous I definitely am not.
It helps if you use a symmetric mouse. I first started getting RSI back in the early 90s, so I suppose I've got used to the get-rounds by now. Since my last paralysing bout of the stuff, I've kept a mouse on the left & a touchpad on the right, and make sure that I use both roughly equally.
OK, since I need to keep plugging away at writing or I'll stop, I'm going to make sure I post a total every day to shame me into doing so.
Today's grand total is 2675, a delta of "only" 200, which I would have been pleased with only a week ago but looks rather underachieving compared to yesterday. Never mind, it's another scene completed, making me 3 of 7 already. At this rate I may need to start planning chapter 5 soon!
Extract of the day: Was he getting paranoid? Did his feelings of guilt about his recent actions make him see danger where there was none? The priests saw the Record frequently, and there was nothing incriminating in it anyway.
I'm finding the post-every-day mentality is really helping me to keep up the momentum. It sounds like you're making steady progress, which is brilliant! Roll on chapter 5!
It's past half-way against the original target figure (yay!), but I had set out to write a chapter and I'm not quite half way against the plan. I'm expecting the chapter to come out around 6000 rather than 5000. Of course, my current word count puts me on target to hit that well before end of month, so my unofficial goal is to get "a decent start" made on chapter 5 too.
Today = net 452, which isn't as good as yesterday, but does include a lot of licking yesterday's scene into shape.
‘That’ll be Ferdy. Left him managing the luggage at the York. He insisted on putting up there, kept going on about singing, of all things! You know how he is when he takes some hare-brained notion into his head, best to humour him.’
Gil passed over the insult to his friend, for the first time taking in the import of Sherry’s somewhat crumpled attire. ‘Don’t mean to say you tooled down overnight?’ he enquired, incredulously.
espresso_addict quoted: Gil passed over the insult to his friend, for the first time taking in the import of Sherry’s somewhat crumpled attire. ‘Don’t mean to say you tooled down overnight?’ he enquired, incredulously.
Wow! You don't mean to say you've got a major character called Gil. I do too :)
"These days, my value is in my name," Donna sighed. Then, figuring that by reputation, the last thing Ivan would want to do was marry her, she explained, "If my brother doesn't marry and produce a Count's heir in the usual way, his brother-in-law would be an obvious choice to succeed him."
"That's... that's obscene! You're not his property!"
I'm amazed that so many women put up with Barrayar society. It's probably the thing I like the least about the novels--sexist societies are so cliched in SF; even Farscape did an ep (and why didn't they twist it so it was the men who were possessions, eh?). But LMB gets away with it with all those strong and undefeated women.
Ooh. About to go to work, but I'll read that story at lunchtime. :-)
I'm still pretty new to fanfic, but I think that story is one of my better efforts so far.
There's considerably more Bujold fic at (not surprisingly) bujold_fic. The biggest deal is novel-length Gregor/Miles slash (A Deeper Season, see http://lookingglass.lightgetsin.com/ads01.html), but tales_of_josan did a really nice series recently, I am helping jetta_e_rus with editing a translation of a Russian Illyan/Aral slash novella It's a Long Way to Escobar, and there was a Bujold ficathon earlier this year which is indexed at http://community.livejournal.com/bujold_fic/16423.html ...
Well, it's not done yet! I am trying to finish it before lightgetsin and sahiya post the sequel to A Deeper Season, because their stuff is just so completely better than anything I or anyone else out there could write...
But I have posted excerpts (drafts of scenes, really) at:
"And I you." She smiled at me with a mouth full of pointy little teeth, and still managed to look friendly even though she should've looked more frightening then Avon doing his crocodile look. "You're a son of Adam--"
"Eh?" I blinked. "Never knew who my father was, sorry."
"--and you're too light-skinned to be a Telmarine--"
"I've never told anything to a marine, but then again, I've always heard they're a bit sceptical."
"--or a Calormene, so I thought you'd be safe to talk to."
Well, talking animals and a reluctant hero who'd rather rob royalty than save them. :-) This is going to be a lot longer than 5000 words. I'm not even sure what's happening till I write it. I'm tempted to add Bacchus but then Vila would never leave.
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on 2006-11-08 08:48 pm (UTC)Oh the painful irony!
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on 2006-11-08 09:05 pm (UTC)Immediately, I'd suggest getting a hot water bottle or something else heat-giving and resting it on your wrists and forearms.
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on 2006-11-08 10:59 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2006-11-08 11:31 pm (UTC)The hot water bottle is a good idea.
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on 2006-11-09 12:39 am (UTC)no subject
on 2006-11-08 11:37 pm (UTC)Today's grand total is 2675, a delta of "only" 200, which I would have been pleased with only a week ago but looks rather underachieving compared to yesterday. Never mind, it's another scene completed, making me 3 of 7 already. At this rate I may need to start planning chapter 5 soon!
Extract of the day:
Was he getting paranoid? Did his feelings of guilt about his recent actions make him see danger where there was none? The priests saw the Record frequently, and there was nothing incriminating in it anyway.
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on 2006-11-09 12:42 am (UTC)no subject
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on 2006-11-09 12:32 am (UTC)‘That’ll be Ferdy. Left him managing the luggage at the York. He insisted on putting up there, kept going on about singing, of all things! You know how he is when he takes some hare-brained notion into his head, best to humour him.’
Gil passed over the insult to his friend, for the first time taking in the import of Sherry’s somewhat crumpled attire. ‘Don’t mean to say you tooled down overnight?’ he enquired, incredulously.
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on 2006-11-09 10:54 am (UTC)no subject
on 2006-11-09 09:26 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2006-11-09 02:51 pm (UTC)Gil passed over the insult to his friend, for the first time taking in the import of Sherry’s somewhat crumpled attire. ‘Don’t mean to say you tooled down overnight?’ he enquired, incredulously.
Wow! You don't mean to say you've got a major character called Gil. I do too :)
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on 2006-11-09 09:24 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2006-11-09 04:33 am (UTC)"These days, my value is in my name," Donna sighed. Then, figuring that by reputation, the last thing Ivan would want to do was marry her, she explained, "If my brother doesn't marry and produce a Count's heir in the usual way, his brother-in-law would be an obvious choice to succeed him."
"That's... that's obscene! You're not his property!"
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on 2006-11-09 10:27 am (UTC)no subject
on 2006-11-09 10:55 am (UTC)no subject
on 2006-11-09 05:30 pm (UTC)For my view on all this, well, I'm pimping my own fanfic here, but see this: http://www.lse.org/~quietann/donna.html
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on 2006-11-09 07:13 pm (UTC)Ooh. About to go to work, but I'll read that story at lunchtime. :-)
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on 2006-11-10 09:53 am (UTC)no subject
on 2006-11-10 09:03 pm (UTC)I'm still pretty new to fanfic, but I think that story is one of my better efforts so far.
There's considerably more Bujold fic at (not surprisingly)
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on 2006-11-11 12:38 am (UTC)no subject
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on 2006-11-11 04:08 am (UTC)But I have posted excerpts (drafts of scenes, really) at:
http://community.livejournal.com/bujold_fic/19636.html
http://community.livejournal.com/bujold_fic/22557.html
http://community.livejournal.com/bujold_fic/27356.html
There is a little bit of R or NC-17 material in the first, just so you know.
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on 2006-11-11 04:43 am (UTC)Blush again!
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on 2006-11-09 11:41 am (UTC):-D :-D
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on 2006-11-09 04:09 pm (UTC)--
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on 2006-11-10 12:23 am (UTC)Oh, that is a wonderful idea!
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on 2006-11-11 05:33 am (UTC)And argh! I just noticed a typo. i must fix that in the story.