Free at last! Free at last!
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babarnettIn other words, I just finished the last of my TNEO crits today. As of mid-June, I only had two left to go, but between the time spent on the previous TNEO stories and the critting I have to do for my in-person writing group every other week, I kept putting those two off because I was so darn sick of critiquing. Every time I picked up a story, I was overcome with an insanely strong compulsion to check my email and tidy up my office files and add music to iTunes and work on my own stories and make to-do lists.
Amazingly, I didn't delve into LJ very much for diversion. In fact, I've been a little neglectful. I've been reading my friends list posts, but only occasionally chiming in. So in case you've been losing sleep over it, I am still alive. Doesn't feel like it sometimes, though. I think I require more caffeine.
Oh, and back to the subject of critiques and writing groups and the like, a big old thank you tosquirrel_monkey for her visit to our humble little Philly group last weekend. It made for an awesomely writerly afternoon.
In other news, I am officially a Mac convert now. My shiny new Macbook arrived last week, and I love it. I still have a PC as my desktop (I wasn't planning to get a new laptop until my old one started crapping out on me), but when that puppy starts to die, it's getting replaced with a Mac.
I've also got my TNEO lecture all ready to go. I think it'll be fun. There are entirely too many awesome scenes I could use for the exercises I'll have folks doing, though, which made it hard to choose a few that would fit into the allotted time. But choose I did.
Anyway, now that I've gotten all that down, it's back to critiquing non-TNEO stuff. And then *gasp* doing a little of my own writing.
Amazingly, I didn't delve into LJ very much for diversion. In fact, I've been a little neglectful. I've been reading my friends list posts, but only occasionally chiming in. So in case you've been losing sleep over it, I am still alive. Doesn't feel like it sometimes, though. I think I require more caffeine.
Oh, and back to the subject of critiques and writing groups and the like, a big old thank you to
squirrel_monkey for her visit to our humble little Philly group last weekend. It made for an awesomely writerly afternoon.In other news, I am officially a Mac convert now. My shiny new Macbook arrived last week, and I love it. I still have a PC as my desktop (I wasn't planning to get a new laptop until my old one started crapping out on me), but when that puppy starts to die, it's getting replaced with a Mac.
I've also got my TNEO lecture all ready to go. I think it'll be fun. There are entirely too many awesome scenes I could use for the exercises I'll have folks doing, though, which made it hard to choose a few that would fit into the allotted time. But choose I did.
Anyway, now that I've gotten all that down, it's back to critiquing non-TNEO stuff. And then *gasp* doing a little of my own writing.
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Date: 2008-07-08 09:59 pm (UTC)Booyah for Mac! Check out http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.html for a really cool piece of Mac Only writing software, Scrivener. Blows Word outta the water. And when it comes to organizing a novel-- shizza.
40 bucks and worth every penny. Free trial too.
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