bookkeeping
May. 7th, 2003 05:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
truepennyThank you very much to everybody who responded to my post this morning. The consensus seems to be that y'all like my word counts, so I'll quit worrying about it.
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DL(2) Ch. 4: 1550 words
Other work accomplished: Three stories sent out (one surface-mail, two email). About 20 pages of Shakespeare's Ghost Writers read, and Jesus God but I hate Lacan. Not as much as I hate Freud--hateful, nasty, little man that he was--but still pretty well up there. And it baffles me that Marjorie Garber, who also wrote Vested Interests, should be doing such a tremendously STRAIGHT Lacanian reading of Hamlet. I'm hoping she's going to turn everything on its head in the last section, but I'm not terribly optimistic.
Verdict: Good day.
And you're stopping because ... ? Typed in those 1550 words (which I wrote by hand this afternoon), and my wrists need a break.
Comments: I've done something clever, and it's making me happy, so I thought I'd share. WordPerfect has a macros feature, which I've been using for years to make keyboard shortcuts for French accent marks. But just recently I realized I could ALSO use it to make myself a locum tenens, to stick in when I need a name and can't think of one and the story doesn't want to wait. So now, on my keyboard, Alt-B gets me: [blank]. With the "blank" highlighted in fluorescent green, so that I can't miss it the next time I open the file. Now of course, this means eventually I'm going to have to deal with a ghastly backlog of things needing names, but at least now I have a consistent system of noting those things, so I don't have to live with the paranoiac fear that I'll miss one. And the macro makes it easier to do it properly than not.
A small triumph, but mine own.
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DL(2) Ch. 4: 1550 words
Other work accomplished: Three stories sent out (one surface-mail, two email). About 20 pages of Shakespeare's Ghost Writers read, and Jesus God but I hate Lacan. Not as much as I hate Freud--hateful, nasty, little man that he was--but still pretty well up there. And it baffles me that Marjorie Garber, who also wrote Vested Interests, should be doing such a tremendously STRAIGHT Lacanian reading of Hamlet. I'm hoping she's going to turn everything on its head in the last section, but I'm not terribly optimistic.
Verdict: Good day.
And you're stopping because ... ? Typed in those 1550 words (which I wrote by hand this afternoon), and my wrists need a break.
Comments: I've done something clever, and it's making me happy, so I thought I'd share. WordPerfect has a macros feature, which I've been using for years to make keyboard shortcuts for French accent marks. But just recently I realized I could ALSO use it to make myself a locum tenens, to stick in when I need a name and can't think of one and the story doesn't want to wait. So now, on my keyboard, Alt-B gets me: [blank]. With the "blank" highlighted in fluorescent green, so that I can't miss it the next time I open the file. Now of course, this means eventually I'm going to have to deal with a ghastly backlog of things needing names, but at least now I have a consistent system of noting those things, so I don't have to live with the paranoiac fear that I'll miss one. And the macro makes it easier to do it properly than not.
A small triumph, but mine own.
