Getting Ready for Novel Writing
Oct. 13th, 2005 07:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livingdebThere are several things I would like to have done by November 1 so I can focus more time on novel writing.
I have been playing around on the web pages of the nanowrimo site. It's good to get used to them so that when I'm in the thick of things, I'm not also in a learning curve. Rationalizing much?
I've also been trying to download Open Office, which is a MicroSoft Office look-alike that doesn't involve transferring money from Debbie to Bill. It has not been working. So today I did some research and found NeoOffice, which is software based on Open Office, but modified to look more like other Mac stuff. I don't really care about that. The part that excites me is that I was able to download it. Not only that, it preserves tabs when I use it to open multi-tabbed Excel spreadsheets (except most of the graphs aren't so hot). So I like it better than AppleWorks for that, and now I should be able to transfer all my personal finance stuff my work computer to my home computer and start taking care of it there, where I should have been taking care of it all along.
Between now and November I want to type things in the word processors of AppleWorks and NeoOffice and decide which one I like better.
Another thing I did today that I've been putting off was to call my mechanic about my car overheating again (in a new and different way) on my way back from the party last Saturday.
And finally, I joined a professional association related to the next job I want and registered for their next regional conference (which is happening, of course, in November) and asked for more vacation time so I can go to it. One day I will be good at remembering the name of this association. Association for Educational Communications and Technology, that's it. I'm not sure how communications and technology can join an association, but there you have it.
December would be a much better novel-writing month for me--more vacation, too cold to do anything fun most days, stores are closed at the end of the month, no ballroom dance classes. I guess I can use that month to finish my novel. Yeah, that's it. Because I'm going to have a big pile of stuff that is ready for finishing. Yeah.
I have been playing around on the web pages of the nanowrimo site. It's good to get used to them so that when I'm in the thick of things, I'm not also in a learning curve. Rationalizing much?
I've also been trying to download Open Office, which is a MicroSoft Office look-alike that doesn't involve transferring money from Debbie to Bill. It has not been working. So today I did some research and found NeoOffice, which is software based on Open Office, but modified to look more like other Mac stuff. I don't really care about that. The part that excites me is that I was able to download it. Not only that, it preserves tabs when I use it to open multi-tabbed Excel spreadsheets (except most of the graphs aren't so hot). So I like it better than AppleWorks for that, and now I should be able to transfer all my personal finance stuff my work computer to my home computer and start taking care of it there, where I should have been taking care of it all along.
Between now and November I want to type things in the word processors of AppleWorks and NeoOffice and decide which one I like better.
Another thing I did today that I've been putting off was to call my mechanic about my car overheating again (in a new and different way) on my way back from the party last Saturday.
And finally, I joined a professional association related to the next job I want and registered for their next regional conference (which is happening, of course, in November) and asked for more vacation time so I can go to it. One day I will be good at remembering the name of this association. Association for Educational Communications and Technology, that's it. I'm not sure how communications and technology can join an association, but there you have it.
December would be a much better novel-writing month for me--more vacation, too cold to do anything fun most days, stores are closed at the end of the month, no ballroom dance classes. I guess I can use that month to finish my novel. Yeah, that's it. Because I'm going to have a big pile of stuff that is ready for finishing. Yeah.