Starwind Rohana ([info]starsong24) wrote,
@ 2008-02-08 18:05:00
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*Deadpan.* Oh, yay, new stuff.
New family computer. I should probably feel grateful, but don't.

It arrived, oh, Wednesday? And my uncle's coming over to set it up today. So. Why do I have a bee in my bonnet about this?

It takes time. Too much time. Setting it up, that is.

I don't want Vista, I'm quite happy with the IE7 layout and functioning.

I just generally like this computer, dangit.

As a compromise, my parents have agreed to let me have this computer in my (overcrowded) room.

On the upside, AU Animorphs fic is coming along quite well, even if I insist on writing chapters out of order and therefore have chapters seven, eight, ten, and thirteen to eighteen on the computer at school while chapter three has yet to be written.

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[info]huinesoron
2008-02-08 11:07 pm UTC (link)
But the alternative to writing chapters out of order is writing them in order, which means if you get stuck, you don't write anything for ages.

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[info]starsong24
2008-02-09 06:55 am UTC (link)
Speaking from personal experience?

...the only problem I have with it is that you have to be sure everything in the preceding chapers agrees with the chapters you've written. On the plus side, it allows productivity and being ahead sometimes helps you get unstuck.

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[info]huinesoron
2008-02-09 12:55 pm UTC (link)
Very much so.

Yeah, there is that. If I even write little bits of coming chapters, I find when I get to them that I have to /re/write them completely. It's ridiculous.

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[info]starsong24
2008-02-09 09:30 pm UTC (link)
Stories tend to evolve as you go, don't they? Not so noticeable at first, but when you do a comparison...you find that the overall structure is usually similar, but the medium details change.

I get around that because most of my stories have the end and chronology 'imagined' in full before I bother writing anything down. Plus, writing chapters ahead of yourself gives a kind of structure to work in: Sure, some bits may need to be changed, but the bulk of it fits in.

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[info]chelonianmobile
2008-02-10 11:32 pm UTC (link)
I do that as well. I've written a large chunk of a storyline involving the PPC agents at the OFUR which I'll have to rewrite in the process to make it fit with everything that happens betweentimes because it has to happen around Jan/Feb fic-time, but we had to write it all down or we'd forget the good jokes.

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