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Still in love with the new toy
Nov. 2nd, 2017 07:14 pmI still love my MacBook. This may not change for a long time. It's so pretty. And it works so beautifully and quickly. There are so many little things it does that I hadn't realised I'd love! It's so easy!
Er, sometimes a little too easy *blushes* I spent ages last week trying to set up printers, because it was so simple that I couldn't believe it and I kept looking for something far more complicated. Heh.
I have Scrivener installed and I've been powering on with the novel. Scriv is lovely on a Mac and it's so comfortable to write that I've been getting down words much faster than I expected. I suspect that at some point my progress will slow, but so far, it's been great. It probably helps that I'm really enjoying writing this book and I'm at the stage where I feel settled into the rhythm and voices, but I haven't hit the muddy middle section where I start to doubt why anyone would ever want to write.
The first chapter went through my crit group at the weekend and they were really helpful. This is the first time I've written first person POV for over a decade, so I needed some feedback on that. Overall, apparently I'm not doing badly, and they were able to point me to places where it wasn't quite working (third person POV habits holdover) and explain why, so I can fix it. Knowing why something isn't working helps so much, maybe more than knowing what isn't working in the first place.
The funny part was all the places where they had to check whether something I'd said was a Britishism they hadn't heard of before. Apparently I disabused them of the notion that they're familiar with British terminology and slang :-D
Also, they know my writing well enough now to be unable to make any assumptions, because I keep smashing heteronormativity all over the place so they don't know what to expect. I feel proud of this. Let's keep breaking heteronormative stereotypes into pieces, okay?
( Cut for long nerdy programming and career discussion )
The one downside to my lovely MacBook is that I keep wanting to use trackpad gestures on my Windows PC at work and they don't work. Woe. But they're so convenient!
(I have a cold. Ugh. I don't approve. It's been here since *Monday* and I hates it, precious, I hates it.)
Er, sometimes a little too easy *blushes* I spent ages last week trying to set up printers, because it was so simple that I couldn't believe it and I kept looking for something far more complicated. Heh.
I have Scrivener installed and I've been powering on with the novel. Scriv is lovely on a Mac and it's so comfortable to write that I've been getting down words much faster than I expected. I suspect that at some point my progress will slow, but so far, it's been great. It probably helps that I'm really enjoying writing this book and I'm at the stage where I feel settled into the rhythm and voices, but I haven't hit the muddy middle section where I start to doubt why anyone would ever want to write.
The first chapter went through my crit group at the weekend and they were really helpful. This is the first time I've written first person POV for over a decade, so I needed some feedback on that. Overall, apparently I'm not doing badly, and they were able to point me to places where it wasn't quite working (third person POV habits holdover) and explain why, so I can fix it. Knowing why something isn't working helps so much, maybe more than knowing what isn't working in the first place.
The funny part was all the places where they had to check whether something I'd said was a Britishism they hadn't heard of before. Apparently I disabused them of the notion that they're familiar with British terminology and slang :-D
Also, they know my writing well enough now to be unable to make any assumptions, because I keep smashing heteronormativity all over the place so they don't know what to expect. I feel proud of this. Let's keep breaking heteronormative stereotypes into pieces, okay?
( Cut for long nerdy programming and career discussion )
The one downside to my lovely MacBook is that I keep wanting to use trackpad gestures on my Windows PC at work and they don't work. Woe. But they're so convenient!
(I have a cold. Ugh. I don't approve. It's been here since *Monday* and I hates it, precious, I hates it.)
