A mixed weekend...

Was away for a long weekend, which amongst other things involved going to Watervole's for the day. This was good in itself, but I also stopped off on the way to spend half an hour walking around Badbury Rings to research it as a possible story setting, and came away with an actual story idea to go with the setting, which I was then able to talk over with watervole. Also have another story idea from talking ideas through with her in an effort to generate something that will hit the 20-30k range and not require the sort of intense focus to write that both L&M3 and the urban fairy story will need. I really need something along those lines to ease myself back into writing when I finally got some free time in a couple of months.

The bad bit is that I pulled out my Palm on the way down to the SouthWet to scribble some story notes, and found that it was misbehaving in a way that suggests that it may be terminally ill. Not good, because I get on very well with the handwriting recognition software on that Palm, and the version on later models is apparently nowhere near as good. I have another Palm IIIxe bought as an emergency back-up, but I'm not sure where it is in the backwash of the Great Unpacking. And the plan was to use the Palm to do some note scribbling during my lunch break at work this week. :-( I don't want to use the work computer, for a number of reasons which include but are not limited to "there is no such thing as a secret file on a machine that belongs to your employer".

A mixed weekend...

Was away for a long weekend, which amongst other things involved going to watervole's for the day. This was good in itself, but I also stopped off on the way to spend half an hour walking around Badbury Rings to research it as a possible story setting, and came away with an actual story idea to go with the setting, which I was then able to talk over with watervole. Also have another story idea from talking ideas through with her in an effort to generate something that will hit the 20-30k range and not require the sort of intense focus to write that both L&M3 and the urban fairy story will need. I really need something along those lines to ease myself back into writing when I finally got some free time in a couple of months.

The bad bit is that I pulled out my Palm on the way down to the SouthWet to scribble some story notes, and found that it was misbehaving in a way that suggests that it may be terminally ill. Not good, because I get on very well with the handwriting recognition software on that Palm, and the version on later models is apparently nowhere near as good. I have another Palm IIIxe bought as an emergency back-up, but I'm not sure where it is in the backwash of the Great Unpacking. And the plan was to use the Palm to do some note scribbling during my lunch break at work this week. :-( I don't want to use the work computer, for a number of reasons which include but are not limited to "there is no such thing as a secret file on a machine that belongs to your employer".