Wordage

[julesjones]

After no work on the main WIP for a couple of days, I turned out 1500 words this morning. We are still not at sex scene, but I can see that happening today if I stick to this and don't switch to one of the other WIPs.

And there is a new item on the list of other WIPs. As previously mentioned, I bugged predatrix about the Hawarth Press travel tales anthology last week. I came up with some plot ideas on the way home from the pub on Friday night, and told her about them sometime over the weekend. Yesterday she phoned me up over the internet to see what we were going to work on, and while I was talking to her about other stuff I started getting more ideas. Unfortunately the VoIP link was not at its best, and I got fed up with repeating myself three times, and went to use the chat box instead. And started at the beginning of the story, and had typed about 1000 words of actual story by the time I'd finished. While predatrix earned her keep by copy-n-pasting from the chat box into a word processor file, and added a bit of her own text, I took another look at the guidelines and finally noticed that these are supposed to be true travel tales. Oh dear. Never mind, I'm sure we can find another market. I've been eyeing up a couple of likely prospects anyway.

Normally she does the typing. As she mentions, there are a *lot* of typos in the thousand words I typed. I would just like to point out that this is not my usual standard of typing, and is a side-effect of trying to type at far more than my usual typing speed because I'm trying to do it as a real-time conversation.

This has really rubbed my nose in why we used to do it by sharing desktops in Netmeeting, rather than in a chat window. However slow and flaky Netmeeting is, when it's actually working you can *see* what the other person is typing more or less as they type it. You do not have to wait for them to get to the end of the sentence, or paragraph. So you know what they're doing, you don't talk over the top of them and distract them with irrelevant conversation, and you can add pertinant commentary.

And if you're the one typing, you don't have to hit the return key at the end of every sentence just to avoid the above. Or type at twice your normal speed. I'm going to have to spend a few minutes sorting out the paragraphing from yesterday's stint while I can still remember what I had in mind. [sigh]

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[mishalak.livejournal.com]

Now I'm trying to remember what program it was that I used to chat with where people could see what I was typing as I typed it. ICQ? Cannot remember.