What a difference a day makes. I've been without an internet connection all weekend with service restored this morning at 11.00. All down to a fault on the voice line that BT owns.
So I've been sorting out a zillion emails, catching up with what the internet thinks and sorting out problems with one of my credit card companies login that now require cookies for their security procedure.
As someone who has set all cookies to be deleted when I quite the programme this has caused a certain amount of frustration as I was locked out of my account. It seems that the previous change of password changes didn't take, or something. I put in a complaint that using cookies as away of maintaining security was a dumb idea. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Writing wise last week was not super productive as I ended up spending too much time thinking through plot points and having to write specific scenes to make everything work, which I always find hard.
On the positive side my alpha reader thinks the two chapters I wrote were great. So total number of words for the week was 5,305, total for the month 22,760, and running total for the novel stands at 45,477. So I'm about at the halfway point. Yay me!
Fortunately, the lack of internet access wasn't an issue for me on Saturday as I was out at an Absolute Writers forum meet-up at a pub in London (my partner on the other hand was going up the wall trying to sort it out).
I don't post a lot to the forum for several reasons. First is that I'm not a prolific poster on any of the forums I visit. Second, I've realised that visiting forums and reading load of posts is a time sink. Third, American forums have a hard time with British sense of humour, especially one from a former British nurse who tends towards posting black and ironic comments in particular.
Anyway I had a nice time talking to various writers and some of their partner's. So big shout out to all the attendees on Saturday, if you are reading this?
I was also most flattered to be asked when was I going to start submitting my work for publication by Julie, a writer I know, and as a result I'm planning on sitting in on a writing group session at some point in the near future to see if my face fits, and if I like them.
Still watching Stargate SG1 and now on season seven.
That's the one where Daniel Jackson returns as a series regular, but given the number of guest episodes he featured in during season six it never really felt like he left. Neither season six, or seven are as punchy as season five. They have gone back to having filler episodes about characters that don't add anything to the plot.
I think they missed the chance to up their game at several points. There again what do I know?
Reading wise the loss of the internet meant that I sat down and blew through Charlie Stross's The Fuller Memorandum on Sunday. It was that good it made me weep in despair and I wanted to shout out, "I hate you Charlie Stross for making me feel so inadequate as a writer, hiiiisssss, boooooo, suck." The man can write. One day I want to grow up to be as good a writer as him.
So that's it for another week. See you next month. ;-)
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