Tacky and Blue
May. 13th, 2004 09:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miss_ytSince I was bored and I needed to start getting my stuff together to go home anyway, I took down my posters. I put them up with this blue stuff the consistency of chewed, half-dried bubblegum, and had a hell of a time getting it off the walls and the posters themselves. But I did it - and now my room looks really ugly because there are no decorations. My door looks really empty too - had a big ol' Sandman poster up there. I have to roll up my rug, too. Most of the packing will have to wait until Dad gets here, because he'll have the boxes, but I can do some of it tonight and tomorrow.
I got chapter 4 of the fic done and a bit of the next chapter after that. I'm typing it in standard Word page format, instead of Web page format, and I have all the stuff in one document at the moment instead of chapter-by-chapter. That's actually helping, because I can gauge my progress easily by pages, and I can go back and fix stuff. I also started this fic with an outline, which was good because I ended up demolishing everything and rebuilding from the ground up a couple of times. Maybe I should use these techniques for future fics.
Perhaps I should do what Neil Gaiman does and write in a blank book with a fountain pen. I don't like writing by hand so much, but it might help the process - and I'm serious enough about my fics to do it. I already have a blank book I haven't used. But what kind of pen should I get? Not a ballpoint, should be a fountain pen. But I know nothing of fountain pens. Well, I'm only toying with the idea in any case.
I'm going to do some extra DDR tonight because I ate too much junk food today. When I get home I need to stick on my diet - although there will be fewer foods to tempt me, people will notice if I sneak, and Mom will be there to bera- err, encourage me, so I'll probably do better. But I shouldn't dwell on it. I'm not that overweight, I'm quite healthy (thanks in some part to the DDR) and worrying about it makes me depressed.
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drakonous is hashing out the last bits of the Victorian game, and fortunately I can play a character based on Simon. I think I'll give him a primary focus in Forces, with a bit in Time and Connection. The other stuff will be more complicated to figure out. But it'll work.
I got chapter 4 of the fic done and a bit of the next chapter after that. I'm typing it in standard Word page format, instead of Web page format, and I have all the stuff in one document at the moment instead of chapter-by-chapter. That's actually helping, because I can gauge my progress easily by pages, and I can go back and fix stuff. I also started this fic with an outline, which was good because I ended up demolishing everything and rebuilding from the ground up a couple of times. Maybe I should use these techniques for future fics.
Perhaps I should do what Neil Gaiman does and write in a blank book with a fountain pen. I don't like writing by hand so much, but it might help the process - and I'm serious enough about my fics to do it. I already have a blank book I haven't used. But what kind of pen should I get? Not a ballpoint, should be a fountain pen. But I know nothing of fountain pens. Well, I'm only toying with the idea in any case.
I'm going to do some extra DDR tonight because I ate too much junk food today. When I get home I need to stick on my diet - although there will be fewer foods to tempt me, people will notice if I sneak, and Mom will be there to bera- err, encourage me, so I'll probably do better. But I shouldn't dwell on it. I'm not that overweight, I'm quite healthy (thanks in some part to the DDR) and worrying about it makes me depressed.
drakonous is hashing out the last bits of the Victorian game, and fortunately I can play a character based on Simon. I think I'll give him a primary focus in Forces, with a bit in Time and Connection. The other stuff will be more complicated to figure out. But it'll work.
