My kingdom for a laptop
Dec. 17th, 2006 12:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pjthompsonI had a really good writing session yesterday. I did 2500 words in a couple of hours, half of my average chapter length. Good stuff, flowed like molten candy, happy happy. I only stopped yesterday because I didn't know what happened next and wanted to let it percolate. I mean, I knew what happened next in a general way, but the particulars of the scene needed to steep a bit. (Mixing my coffee and tea metaphors.)
It certainly beats the 750 words of longhand I do every work day at lunch.
"Hot holy hell, woman, why are you writing in longhand in this age of technological wowie powie?" you might ask yourself, if you were given to such hyperbolic exclamations.
Writing in longhand isn't my choice, I assure you. I compose much faster and easier on the computer, obviously. But the only guaranteed time I get to work on weekdays is that lunch hour and I have to get away from my work cubicle to get that done. (Because, don't you know, even if you have a sign up saying, "I'm on lunch. Please return at 1:30," there will be someone who thinks the sign doesn't apply to them. Usually more than one someone.) So, I seek out vacant offices, and I can't very well use the computers in there. Therefore, longhand. Which I input into the 'puter afterwards as opportunity arises.
If I had a laptop I can't say that I'd write 2500 words a day (that was a 2 hour total, after all), but I'm pretty sure I'd write more than my standard 750. If I have any prayer of being a productive writer and picking up the speed of ms. generation, I'm going to have to come up with some solution like this.
Here we wander into the territory of want vs. need. I do not really have the money for a laptop. Do I need a laptop? In the larger sense, no. Heck, even in the smaller sense, no. But I've always kind of justified anything that feeds the process as a necessity rather than a pure want. Writing is what I do, it's the big kahuna in my life, therefore I must feed its needs. That's how the justification goes, anyway.
I notice MacMall has some Mac laptops starting at $800 right now--not at all fancy, but certainly enough for me to use on lunch hours and in coffee shops. But I don't have a spare $800 without resorting to credit cards and I am supposed to be getting out of debt, not further into it. This really is a want vs. a need, no matter how I try to justify it.
I will defer the decision yet again.
P.S. My iTunes is obsessed with Raga Chandrakauns by Rahul Sharma. It comes up second or third almost every time I randomize. What is the universe trying to tell me here? "Mellow out, man, go with the flooow?" "Don't mistake your wants for your needs, man. There are children starving in India. You didn't finish your bowl of cereal this morning. Think of the starving waifs that could have fed."
Or maybe that's my mother's voice I'm hearing.
It certainly beats the 750 words of longhand I do every work day at lunch.
"Hot holy hell, woman, why are you writing in longhand in this age of technological wowie powie?" you might ask yourself, if you were given to such hyperbolic exclamations.
Writing in longhand isn't my choice, I assure you. I compose much faster and easier on the computer, obviously. But the only guaranteed time I get to work on weekdays is that lunch hour and I have to get away from my work cubicle to get that done. (Because, don't you know, even if you have a sign up saying, "I'm on lunch. Please return at 1:30," there will be someone who thinks the sign doesn't apply to them. Usually more than one someone.) So, I seek out vacant offices, and I can't very well use the computers in there. Therefore, longhand. Which I input into the 'puter afterwards as opportunity arises.
If I had a laptop I can't say that I'd write 2500 words a day (that was a 2 hour total, after all), but I'm pretty sure I'd write more than my standard 750. If I have any prayer of being a productive writer and picking up the speed of ms. generation, I'm going to have to come up with some solution like this.
Here we wander into the territory of want vs. need. I do not really have the money for a laptop. Do I need a laptop? In the larger sense, no. Heck, even in the smaller sense, no. But I've always kind of justified anything that feeds the process as a necessity rather than a pure want. Writing is what I do, it's the big kahuna in my life, therefore I must feed its needs. That's how the justification goes, anyway.
I notice MacMall has some Mac laptops starting at $800 right now--not at all fancy, but certainly enough for me to use on lunch hours and in coffee shops. But I don't have a spare $800 without resorting to credit cards and I am supposed to be getting out of debt, not further into it. This really is a want vs. a need, no matter how I try to justify it.
I will defer the decision yet again.
P.S. My iTunes is obsessed with Raga Chandrakauns by Rahul Sharma. It comes up second or third almost every time I randomize. What is the universe trying to tell me here? "Mellow out, man, go with the flooow?" "Don't mistake your wants for your needs, man. There are children starving in India. You didn't finish your bowl of cereal this morning. Think of the starving waifs that could have fed."
Or maybe that's my mother's voice I'm hearing.
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Date: 2006-12-18 03:46 pm (UTC)