Writing Progress: Week Ending February 16, 2013
They say one good turn deserves another…
Book of M:
- Background Notes Wordcount: 0 words
- First Draft Wordcount: 0 words
Story of V:
- Wordcount: 0 words
Grand Total: 0 words
Last week was a good writing week, so of course this week was not. But actually this was not unexpected. In fact, I’d anticipated being busy this week. That’s why I gave myself 14 weeks off this year, more than I had expected to use last year (though less than what I actually used). What’s more, thus is the same reason I haven’t been able to reply to comments on last week’s post. Don’t worry, I’ll get to those soon.
I’m very eager to be writing right now. As I mentioned last week I’m itching to dive back into “Book of M”. Plus there’s the 3 “Book of M” short stories I’ve been thinking about. I’d like to write a little explore the ideas I have for those, even if I don’t dive into writing the stories themselves. But life has other immediate plans for me, and it’s a doozy.
So, while a part of me wants to be writing I don’t really mind the break. I’ve got enough to keep me occupied for now. Still, I do hope I can get back into it soon enough.
In other completely unrelated-to-writing news, I’ve joined the twenty-first century… I recently got a new smart phone. I have to say I love my new phone. Most of this post was composed on it, parts of it even taken by dictation. It’s like something out of classic sci-fi.
The future is awesome. I’m glad I live there, now.
So, how about you? How was your week, in writing, in life, or whatever?
Oooh shiny new smartphone!
My writing has been going slowly. I’m still in the story incubation phase. I’ve got the general shape of a story in mind, but there are still a lot of holes. Kind of hesitant to just jump in and write. This story’s going to be different, for sure.
Shouldn’t every story be different, ideally?
The new phone is just wonderful; it makes me happy and tickles my long-suppressed gadget bone just right.
I got my first smart phone, on which I’m writing this, after Hurricane Sandy knocked out my Internet for 10 days. I have the cheapest voice plan and the most expensive data plan. I get unnerved when the phone rings because I forget it even does that.
Well I hardly use my phone at all either, mostly because I have very few people to call… Except Dear Wife, whom I probably call nearly every day. We were able to get smartphones thanks to a fortuitous set of family circumstances that made it almost as cheap to have a data plan as it was to have voice and text alone. Score one for us! Still, we’re trying to be very judicious with our data use.