bookkeeping

[truepenny]

DL(2) Ch. 4: 587 words

Which brings the total for yesterday to: 3204 words

Verdict: Thank god this beastly chapter is moving at last.

Comments:
(1.) I'm feeling ... not guilty exactly, but anxious about posting my word counts when I know that more than one person on my Friends/Friend of list is struggling with writer's block. If my word counts are making it harder for you to write, please let me know (email me if you don't want to say it in a public forum). This is a mildly helpful little mental trick for me, but it's not essential.

(2.) I did overdo it yesterday. Both wrists are stiff. So there won't be much verbiage from me today.

Comments

[papersky.livejournal.com]

Well personally, I love seeing other people's wordcounts, even when I'm stuck. It reminds me that people can do it. It reminds me that I can do it sometimes and the wind isn't in the wrong direction if truepenny and matociquala wrote tons yesterday... (What a good day! I'm impressed. I'm so glad it's going well.)

Not that there's any chance of me writing anything before next week, but anyway.

[oracne.livejournal.com]

3000 words! That rocks!

I like the word counts. Keep me on my toes.

[elisem.livejournal.com]

The word counts help make me want to make more art. So there. We likes them, we does, and we findss them useful.

[1crowdedhour.livejournal.com]

I find word counts amusing and instructive. It's inspiring. She felt the breath of life along her keel on Monday, right? It cheers me up to see others doing what I hope to do.


Caroline

Wrist pain

[libskrat]

If you ever get the yen to try out an alternative keyboard, let me know. I haul my Kinesis Classic back and forth from work on a daily basis anyway.

Takes practice, this kb does, but I couldn't have kept my current (data-entry and programming) job without it.

(ObDisclaimer: No connection with Kinesis except as satisfied user of one of their products.)

Re: Wrist pain

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Preaching to the converted. But let me, too, testify (in the religious sense) to the power and the glory of the Kinesis keyboard.

My Kinesis (which I've had for 10 years) is the only reason I could hit 3k words yesterday, and the reason my hands & wrists are only stiff today, rather than feeling like rusty clockwork spiders.

I love it with an unholy passion.

Also, I love Kinesis Corp. itself. Last summer, I had to send it back to be cleaned (keys sticking--important keys, you know, like "a"). When it came back, we couldn't believe at first that it was the same keyboard. They not only cleaned it, they gave it a new housing (including an upgrade on the port-thingy), and they didn't charge extra.

Kinesis keyboards are weird--visitors tend to give mine the hairy eyeball and edge away politely--and they do take a little getting used to, but if you can touch-type, you won't have more than a couple days trouble. And if you have trouble with tendonitis or carpal tunnel or what have you ... well, my investment (or, more accurately, my father's) has paid for itself fifty times over.

Ob(as you say)Disclaimer: No affiliation or connection with Kinesis, except as an extraordinarily satisfied customer.

Wrist pain

[libskrat]

I wish I'd had mine for ten years. Would have saved myself an impressive amount of pain.

[pameladean]

As others have said, I find the reminder that SOMEBODY can write lots of words more inspiring than otherwise.

Pamela

Word counts

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

This touches on my earlier post about career envy, and the realization that your success does not "take away" success from other people. If the person you mentioned wants to be a serious writer, maybe even a professional writer, he/she has to get over the fact that there will always be other people who will write faster, win more awards, etc., but that doesn't change his/her job, which is to write, irrespective of how much writing anyone else in the world is getting done.

Moreover, this is also a boundary issue for you. Keep in mind: this is your journal, and you can post any damn thing you want (anything you can live with posting, that is!) If he/she doesn't like to read your word counts, then he/she can simply not read it.

Personally, I like very much seeing your word count, even though mine is smaller almost every day. I have posted my own, partly in response, and will continue doing so.

Good luck with the stiff wrists.

Cheers,
Peg

Re: Word counts

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Actually, I'd have to say this is an upbringing thing. I was taught very young (and I'm not sure by whom--parents, teachers, so-called peers) that it was impolite, uncourteous, and downright rude to brag--and then had the definition of "bragging" expanded under me to include things like having too many of the answers in class or telling anyone about anything good, academically or professionally, that's happened to me. (And that expansion may not be anybody's fault but mine. This is stuff so far down in the foundations that I can't sort out the causes any more.)

And that's what the word counts feel like on a good day, like I'm "bragging" again. Which I'm not, but it's one of those things that gets ahold of you when you're young and impressionable and then can't be dislodged from the psyche even with dynamite and a backhoe.

I should be clear that no one has complained about the word counts. I was being hyperproactive--which is another thing I recognize as part of the way I was raised.

So it's not about the writing, or the envy, or even my boundaries, exactly. It's about having been raised to consider other people's comfort first. Which, okay, yes, also about boundaries, but not in quite the same way.

Sorry, long answer. But it needed thinking through. And thank you for being supportive.