thoughts on first day at Dad’s

[erastes]

Argh! This is no good – I thought “NOT HAVING THE INTERWEBS” would be good for me, as it would cease to be a distraction and I could simply get on with writing, but .. no. Short sightedly I had entirely forgotten RESEARCH. It’s possible to put “they decided to visit XXXXXXX theatre” and to fill in the gaps later, but if i want to know something really specific it’s going to either make me grind to a halt – OR – write in patches.

I know i can do this, but the narrative is flowing right now, and I didn’t want to jump forward.

Plus – i should have emailed the whole manuscript to myself and not just the chapter i’m working on, because i need to check something in the timeline and i can’t. I can’t even email a friend to ask them to check.

HOW DO PEOPLE COPE WITHOUT THE INTERNET?  So, if I’m going to be here on a daily 9-5 basis, one thing is clear, Papa needs an internet connection, even if it’s only dial up.

That ranty grump aside, though – i’ve just written more in an morning than i did over the entire weekend, so this could be VERY good for me. I may find myself writing more than a book a year at this rate.  Just did 1057 words – so, hurrah!a

Muffled Drum defintiely wants to be a novel, though. It was planned as a novella, but it simply isn’t going to stick to that, I think, plot points keep jumping in, new characters introduce themselves, now I have a complication waiting for Rudolph in Berlin (as well as his wife and kids, snarf snarf) which will be fun to play with.

What I like about m/m – is that we can play with the tropes so much, and that many things that would be unwelcome in the main bulk of m/f fiction are almost de rigeur in m/m simply because of the genre itself.

OK – time to make scrambled eggses on toast and a fruit salad, then a cuppa tea, then some washing and an afternoon filum. It’s hard graft this Caring lark…

Comments

[crawling-angel.livejournal.com]

Hurrah for you! (And Dad, lol).

I'm off to teh docs with Dave. He's twanged his neck :/ again.

[lee-rowan.livejournal.com]

Thought so. We had an IPS outage for a couple of hours and it's downright appalling how dependent I've become for research (and that's with about half a ton of books around me.)

Dial-up might work; when you have to make the effort to get on the internet, there's less distraction. I appreciate broadband, but it did affect my concentration on non-net business, to wit: the story.

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

I definitely knew that it was going to be a book. The situation is too complicated for it NOT to be.

I've only done 641 words so far today...but I'll likely be up half the night writing, and that counts, doesn't it?

[lyras.livejournal.com]

This sort of makes me laugh. I am reminded of the day I was keeping an eye on my dad, and the doctor came and asked me to turn off the TV (as if that would've made any difference to my dad). Take care, you. <3

[taylorbooks.livejournal.com]

Poor thing. No Internet while trying to write something needing research is like having a great bird feeder with no birds.

[leni-jess.livejournal.com]

Have you considered getting one of those broadband dongle things? (Mind, you really need to compare prices and download available. Some providers are exploitatively expensive, esp for the dongle itself.)

Last summer in the UK I bought one from 3 (pay-in-advance a month at a time rather than a permanent service); the dongle was about 30 GBP, the 1 GB download limit (~ 10 GBP?) gave me plenty of room for faffing about on the net (aka touring research + friends contact), but might encourage you to stick to research rather than looking at youtube. That was um, I forget, per month, but look 'em up, since you're a fair step from the shops there are bound to be in Norwich.

That way I wasn't dependent on any hotel's internet connection (if any), and it worked everywhere except in deepest Yorkshire (thick stone walls) and Corsham nr Bath (thick stone walls).