Yes! My Laptop is officially and completely decontaminated. Viruses couldn't stand up to my awesome powers! And I had help...
Anyway, I finally have complete computer access holed up in my room so I don't have to venture out in the public that is my house because somehow there is always fifty people invading our space.
The bad part? I have about nine chapters I now have to type up onto my computer. I hate transcribing my writing. (That's the right word, right?)
The good part? Duh, duh, duh! I only have the last chapter and the epilogue to write before the first draft is completely done. That's it, it's over!
This has been a really long process for me. I started the idea for my book in May or June and wrote three chapters sometimes in June that later became Chapters 1,4, and 5. I put it on hold for a while when I went on this psychotic rampage, writing a whole lot of random story-starts that didn't go anywhere. I wasn't really focused, although I stayed in my room almost all summer working on another book I was hoping to publish. I got about nine chapters done at that book before I decided I just didn't know enough to try and create a complex world that has issues in religion and society, and culture. Plus, way too many weapons I had to name and describe.
From there, that story was moved to the back burner and I decided to focus on Being Evil. This was either late July or early August....or maybe the middle of August. I started writing, but not like crazy. It wasn't until I showed my friend did I really start moving. She loves the book and threatens me with bodily harm if I take more than a week to write the next chapter. I only take two days to write, the other five are for whining and slacking.
And of course, the rest is history. I worked my butt off, probably wrote some questionable material (ready for a rewrite chapter 2?) but now look! Three months later and I'm almost done! A more than NaNoWriMo, but still, not too shabby.
And now, my writing is almost coming to an end. It'll be completely finished and I'll be forced to bid adieu to Eric.
Oh who am I kidding. After I finish, that's when the real work starts!
-Jessie
I handwrite too! I am thinking about getting Dragon the software you talk into and it types for you! Plus reading out loud is a ure fire editing tool.
ReplyDeleteThat software sound really cool! My problem is that I generally write at night and I hate using my laptop in the dark. I can't use talk because then I might wake people up! But it would be a very good editing tool huh...
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