Adrian D. Roberts's Blog, page 3
February 27, 2015
Revolution For Vengeance
It is done. The first draft is complete and printed, photo included below. It sends a tingle up my spine when I see the last two months hard work sitting there in hard copy. It is so much more satisfying than seeing 339 pages or a 140,000 word count on Word. When it's there in front of you it's real. Of course seeing the finished printed and bound article is better and I'm one step closer to that.
I used to work in the paper industry so it is something I know a fair bit about. I changed my paper stocks recently from Revive Business, a responsible quality 100% recycled paper to HP Office a slightly lower grade made from virgin fibre. I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the HP. With the Revive it starts to curl after the first 50 pages are printed due to the heat of the laser printer. It's not a problem, but it does mean I have to feed it manually when I do the second side. The HP on the other hand stayed flat. It is currently printing page 250 without me needing to intervene.
I won't bore you with the full explanation, but the short version is it curls due to the moisture content of the paper. As the printer heats up it dries the paper and causes the curl. Now to be fair the Revive was sitting open on my shelf for a few months and the HP was a fresh packet. This does make a difference as the paper absorbs moisture from the air. It will be interesting to see how the HP copes when I print the 2nd and 3rd copies for editing.
I did my full workout and went for a run this morning. I think this has earned me the right to celebrate completion of the first draft with a 1,352 calorie Goodfellas Takeaway, Sloppy Joe frozen pizza. I'll be lubricating it with some Jack Daniels Whisky.
It's day two of testing at Barcelona for the Formula One teams. Normally I watch Ted's notebook on Sky F1. It's brilliant, just him a cameraman and an actual notebook. Testing is technical, there is no other way to say it. It's all about lap times, running distances, new parts on the cars, what tyres their using, how are the engines holding up, etc, etc. I love the relaxed way he does it wondering round the paddock and chatting away. It's rough and ready and he makes mistakes occasionally, but that's part of his charm.
This week though Crofty is doing it under his #askcrofty tag. I was a bit worried and I was right. I really don't care what other people are saying on twitter. I want facts and figures not opinions. He even missed out two entire teams yesterday. No mention of Sauber or that Force India weren't arriving until the next day. He said almost nothing on Red Bull, arguably the number two team after Mercedes. His interview with the Lotus technical guy was responible, but the rest was rushed without telling us what we needed to know. It's a shame really.
It's 5 pm and there isn't really anything else I can do so I'm going to go read a book. That's not something I've done in a while, when you spend all day working with words, reading isn't top of your to do list.
Total now at 140,139 words and the first draft is complete. Editing starts first thing Monday morning.
I used to work in the paper industry so it is something I know a fair bit about. I changed my paper stocks recently from Revive Business, a responsible quality 100% recycled paper to HP Office a slightly lower grade made from virgin fibre. I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the HP. With the Revive it starts to curl after the first 50 pages are printed due to the heat of the laser printer. It's not a problem, but it does mean I have to feed it manually when I do the second side. The HP on the other hand stayed flat. It is currently printing page 250 without me needing to intervene.
I won't bore you with the full explanation, but the short version is it curls due to the moisture content of the paper. As the printer heats up it dries the paper and causes the curl. Now to be fair the Revive was sitting open on my shelf for a few months and the HP was a fresh packet. This does make a difference as the paper absorbs moisture from the air. It will be interesting to see how the HP copes when I print the 2nd and 3rd copies for editing.
I did my full workout and went for a run this morning. I think this has earned me the right to celebrate completion of the first draft with a 1,352 calorie Goodfellas Takeaway, Sloppy Joe frozen pizza. I'll be lubricating it with some Jack Daniels Whisky.
It's day two of testing at Barcelona for the Formula One teams. Normally I watch Ted's notebook on Sky F1. It's brilliant, just him a cameraman and an actual notebook. Testing is technical, there is no other way to say it. It's all about lap times, running distances, new parts on the cars, what tyres their using, how are the engines holding up, etc, etc. I love the relaxed way he does it wondering round the paddock and chatting away. It's rough and ready and he makes mistakes occasionally, but that's part of his charm.
This week though Crofty is doing it under his #askcrofty tag. I was a bit worried and I was right. I really don't care what other people are saying on twitter. I want facts and figures not opinions. He even missed out two entire teams yesterday. No mention of Sauber or that Force India weren't arriving until the next day. He said almost nothing on Red Bull, arguably the number two team after Mercedes. His interview with the Lotus technical guy was responible, but the rest was rushed without telling us what we needed to know. It's a shame really.
It's 5 pm and there isn't really anything else I can do so I'm going to go read a book. That's not something I've done in a while, when you spend all day working with words, reading isn't top of your to do list.
Total now at 140,139 words and the first draft is complete. Editing starts first thing Monday morning.
February 26, 2015
Revolution For Vengeance
Wow, the first draft for book three is just about done. I think I have maybe an hour's work in the morning doing that character switch and that's it. I'll print it off and have it ready to work on come Monday morning. I won't let the rest of the day go to waste. I think I did enough of that last week. A list is already up on my whiteboard of jobs to do around the book. There are a number of household jobs I have been putting off as well.
Very pleased right now, bery pleased indeed.
Last night I was watching some recorded TV. It finished at 10.45 and I planned to go to bed. My TV is set to BBC one and Question of Sport was just starting. I watch it occasionally as it is a good laugh, but I'm not really a fan of sports so a lot of the questions fly right past me. I was about to switch it off when I noticed the Mercedes F1 car in the foreground and Fleetwood Mac's The Chain started playing.
It was an F1 special with David Coulthard, Suzie Perry, Kevin Magnessen and Christian Horner. It was brilliant and those guys knew their stuff, as they should given they live and breath the sport. I was particularly impressed with Magnessen, he's a young lad, but he knew a lot of answers. For the first time I was able to answer a lot of the questions as well. It was well worth staying up for.
Total now at 140,000 words, hopefully I can call it complete tomorrow.
Very pleased right now, bery pleased indeed.
Last night I was watching some recorded TV. It finished at 10.45 and I planned to go to bed. My TV is set to BBC one and Question of Sport was just starting. I watch it occasionally as it is a good laugh, but I'm not really a fan of sports so a lot of the questions fly right past me. I was about to switch it off when I noticed the Mercedes F1 car in the foreground and Fleetwood Mac's The Chain started playing.
It was an F1 special with David Coulthard, Suzie Perry, Kevin Magnessen and Christian Horner. It was brilliant and those guys knew their stuff, as they should given they live and breath the sport. I was particularly impressed with Magnessen, he's a young lad, but he knew a lot of answers. For the first time I was able to answer a lot of the questions as well. It was well worth staying up for.
Total now at 140,000 words, hopefully I can call it complete tomorrow.
February 25, 2015
Revolution For Vengeance
A good day at 5,500 words and I finished the last chapter. I've got a couple of additions to put in and the Epilogue to tie up all the loose ends still to do. I hope to get that all done and have the first draft completed by end of play Friday. Wow, it's a big thing, particularly given the low point I was at last week.
When I'm not sure about a word or phrase I'll google it to make sure it's real or makes sense and isn't just me making stuff up. I wanted to use the phrase 'spidering out' to describe lots of little cracks. Do you know what the first item was on google? 'How do you get a spider out of your vagina?' It kind of surprised me and I have to be honest, I almost spat out my tea across the computer. Unfortunately, I do that on occasion. A mate of mine once said something particularly funny in a pub and got covered in beer. Needless to say that the next round was on me.
I suddenly realised last night that I had left a character out. He was just not doing anything. Fortunately it's an easy if painstaking fix. I need to switch him with someone else, their male so only the names to do and a few things they say. Hopefully no one will notice he's been show horned in.
It's karate night so I need to rush off.
Total now at 135,000 words. The end is in sight.
When I'm not sure about a word or phrase I'll google it to make sure it's real or makes sense and isn't just me making stuff up. I wanted to use the phrase 'spidering out' to describe lots of little cracks. Do you know what the first item was on google? 'How do you get a spider out of your vagina?' It kind of surprised me and I have to be honest, I almost spat out my tea across the computer. Unfortunately, I do that on occasion. A mate of mine once said something particularly funny in a pub and got covered in beer. Needless to say that the next round was on me.
I suddenly realised last night that I had left a character out. He was just not doing anything. Fortunately it's an easy if painstaking fix. I need to switch him with someone else, their male so only the names to do and a few things they say. Hopefully no one will notice he's been show horned in.
It's karate night so I need to rush off.
Total now at 135,000 words. The end is in sight.
February 24, 2015
Revolution For Vengeance
Phew, a smidge under 8,000 words today. That is fantastic. I'm really making up for my mucking around now. I've practically pocketed an entire day in two days of writing. The story is flowing, characters are growing, conflicting and their arcs are being completed. I'm actually back to my worry about running out of space, but I think I will end around the 150,000 mark. It's strange how it works out that way without me actually planning it. Maybe I'm smarter than I think? Nah!
I was so excited after last week Revenge, I watched this week as soon as Sky had recorded enough for me to fast forward the adverts. I've got to say that I loved it. Emily/Amanda (I have no idea what to call her) got to talk to her father properly and we saw her in full ninja mode. It was great. My only niggle now is Victoria. She's far too smart to think she can pitch a man against his daughter. Even Conrad never betrayed Charlotte. I'm looking forward to the next one.
I glanced at Tom Cruise's IMDB page earlier today to see if another Jack Reacher was on the cards and it is. I'm pleased about that and then I saw another project - Top Gun 2. I just don't see it. Is this a bunch of men sat in office chairs flying drones against each other, while Maverick proves you can't beat an actual pilot in a plane? Hmm, that might actually work. I'll be a bit miffed if that's the plot.
One thing you never realise when you start to write a novel is that you have to be the best at everything. You're character needs to give an inspirational speech? You have to write the bloody thing. How do you do that and be able to get across that it has the impact of "We'll fight them on the beeches" or "ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country"? Blood sweat and tears are put into these things by professional speech writers. Often dozens of people will work on them. How's an average guy sitting at his home computer meant to do that? I guess people will have to let me know how I did.
I tried a couple of approaches. Actually putting the speech in and just giving the impressions it left behind. I wonder which works the best.
With Revolution, my chapters are longer. I've just started chapter 31 and on the last two I was at 38 and 35 respectively. I'm sure why. Oh well.
Total now at 129,500 and time for dinner.
I was so excited after last week Revenge, I watched this week as soon as Sky had recorded enough for me to fast forward the adverts. I've got to say that I loved it. Emily/Amanda (I have no idea what to call her) got to talk to her father properly and we saw her in full ninja mode. It was great. My only niggle now is Victoria. She's far too smart to think she can pitch a man against his daughter. Even Conrad never betrayed Charlotte. I'm looking forward to the next one.
I glanced at Tom Cruise's IMDB page earlier today to see if another Jack Reacher was on the cards and it is. I'm pleased about that and then I saw another project - Top Gun 2. I just don't see it. Is this a bunch of men sat in office chairs flying drones against each other, while Maverick proves you can't beat an actual pilot in a plane? Hmm, that might actually work. I'll be a bit miffed if that's the plot.
One thing you never realise when you start to write a novel is that you have to be the best at everything. You're character needs to give an inspirational speech? You have to write the bloody thing. How do you do that and be able to get across that it has the impact of "We'll fight them on the beeches" or "ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country"? Blood sweat and tears are put into these things by professional speech writers. Often dozens of people will work on them. How's an average guy sitting at his home computer meant to do that? I guess people will have to let me know how I did.
I tried a couple of approaches. Actually putting the speech in and just giving the impressions it left behind. I wonder which works the best.
With Revolution, my chapters are longer. I've just started chapter 31 and on the last two I was at 38 and 35 respectively. I'm sure why. Oh well.
Total now at 129,500 and time for dinner.
February 23, 2015
Revolution For Vengeance
Ah, a great day. 6,500 thousand words completed. The extra 1,500 words will let me start to catch up a bit. I could certainly have done more today if I started at the normal time. This time the delay wasn't me mucking around. Today I did my full callisthenic and weight work out followed by a twenty-five minute run. I also had to do the read through before I could start writing. I normally do that over the weekend, but as you know, I was actually writing yesterday.
So all in all very good. My aim is still to finish by the end of the week and, if I keep up this pace, it's looking very likely. I am knackered though.
One thing I'm finding at the moment is that I keep thinking about my next project. My creativity brain is almost in demob mode where it comes to Dark Vengeance. It wants to forget about it, put it away and move on. I'm getting all these ideas for what I'm going to do next and I have to keep reminding myself that this one isn't finished yet.
I'm always like that. If I go away for a weekend, week, two weeks, whatever, when it comes to the last day I just want to get up and go. I don't want to hang around and leave sometime in the day. I want to be gone and out the door as soon as possible. My mind switches from relaxing to thinking about what I have to do when I get home - washing, cut the grass or even play Skyrim or whatever. I'm no longer in holiday mode, I'm almost instantly in home mode and the sooner I get there, the better. That's my weird brain for you.
I did find something interesting over the weekend. A butcher very local to me in the middle of the small industrial estate. I'd seen this program on BBC one recently that was all about saving people on their shopping bills. One point they made was that you can get better produce for the same price from your local butcher. So having seen the sign for this place, I thought I'd give it a try. I bought a dozen sausages and half a dozen burgers. I haven't had the sausages yet, but I had the burgers on Saturday and they were gorgeous.
I don't stimp when it comes to food, I don't go crazy, I have a budget of £3 max for a main meal. It'll normally end up less than that, it all depends on what I'm cooking. For burgers I go for decent, fresh stuff rather than frozen and they are nice, but these butchers ones were much better.
Anyway it's 7.00 pm, I'm starving and knackered so time to call it a day.
Total now at 121,500 words.
So all in all very good. My aim is still to finish by the end of the week and, if I keep up this pace, it's looking very likely. I am knackered though.
One thing I'm finding at the moment is that I keep thinking about my next project. My creativity brain is almost in demob mode where it comes to Dark Vengeance. It wants to forget about it, put it away and move on. I'm getting all these ideas for what I'm going to do next and I have to keep reminding myself that this one isn't finished yet.
I'm always like that. If I go away for a weekend, week, two weeks, whatever, when it comes to the last day I just want to get up and go. I don't want to hang around and leave sometime in the day. I want to be gone and out the door as soon as possible. My mind switches from relaxing to thinking about what I have to do when I get home - washing, cut the grass or even play Skyrim or whatever. I'm no longer in holiday mode, I'm almost instantly in home mode and the sooner I get there, the better. That's my weird brain for you.
I did find something interesting over the weekend. A butcher very local to me in the middle of the small industrial estate. I'd seen this program on BBC one recently that was all about saving people on their shopping bills. One point they made was that you can get better produce for the same price from your local butcher. So having seen the sign for this place, I thought I'd give it a try. I bought a dozen sausages and half a dozen burgers. I haven't had the sausages yet, but I had the burgers on Saturday and they were gorgeous.
I don't stimp when it comes to food, I don't go crazy, I have a budget of £3 max for a main meal. It'll normally end up less than that, it all depends on what I'm cooking. For burgers I go for decent, fresh stuff rather than frozen and they are nice, but these butchers ones were much better.
Anyway it's 7.00 pm, I'm starving and knackered so time to call it a day.
Total now at 121,500 words.
February 22, 2015
Revolution For Vengeance
It's Sunday and I'm writing a blog post. Yes I actually did some work today as I said I would. To be honest, I wasn't entirely sure if I would. I certainly owed it to myself to regain some of the ground I'd lost.
I didn't go for the full 8.00 am start and had a more relaxed beginning to the day. I actually sat down at 10.00 am and after spending an hour recording all my sales on a spreadsheet, I started writing at 11.00 am. It hasn't been the most productive day, I must admit, but it has been better than most recently with an OK 4,000 words. Not too bad for a total of 5 hours and 30 minutes writing time.
I have finished a little earlier as I'm having roast potatoes for dinner tonight. They take an hour and a half to cook. I don't need to attend them that whole time of course. I do need to go back every ten minutes or so and that breaks up the writing concentration so I had to stop. I am still working of course as I'm writing this and I plotted out the first thing I'm writing tomorrow. Hopefully I can get into it without messing around.
That's all I wanted to say today.
Total now at 115,000 words and currently 2 days behind schedule.
I didn't go for the full 8.00 am start and had a more relaxed beginning to the day. I actually sat down at 10.00 am and after spending an hour recording all my sales on a spreadsheet, I started writing at 11.00 am. It hasn't been the most productive day, I must admit, but it has been better than most recently with an OK 4,000 words. Not too bad for a total of 5 hours and 30 minutes writing time.
I have finished a little earlier as I'm having roast potatoes for dinner tonight. They take an hour and a half to cook. I don't need to attend them that whole time of course. I do need to go back every ten minutes or so and that breaks up the writing concentration so I had to stop. I am still working of course as I'm writing this and I plotted out the first thing I'm writing tomorrow. Hopefully I can get into it without messing around.
That's all I wanted to say today.
Total now at 115,000 words and currently 2 days behind schedule.
February 21, 2015
Revolution For Vengence & Revenge
OK, it's been a week and a half since my last post. If you follow this then you've probably guessed things haven't been going well and you'd be right. At the end of Wednesday last week I'd hit 100,000 words and felt I was in sight of the finish line. For reason I still haven't managed to come to terms with, that scared the hell out of me. I lost all focus and will. I couldn't write. Since then I have written a massive 11,000 words, most of that over two days - Monday and yesterday.
After a big false start I did manage to get back into the writing yesterday right up until the last minute. I'm hoping this has gotten me through whatever crap in my head has stopped me. There's no way to know until I get back to it. Given I've spent a lot of time playing Fallout 3 or watching TV recently when I should have been working, I'm going to treat tomorrow as a work day. That isn't an option today as I have my daughter round. I can only write this now as she is fast asleep in the next room, having asked to have a nap, something she almost never does with me.
Enough of my feeling sorry for myself. Let's get onto the most important things happening this week.
I have had an excellent review of Crusade for Vengeance and I can assure you, this woman has no connection with me at all. She found my first book somehow, read it and liked it. It seems she also liked my second book as well. Have a read:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Given my mood at the moment this has been a real boost and a big thank you to Sarah.
Revenge Season 4, Episode 7 - Wow.
I was really on the edge of giving up and then Emily/Amanda confronts her father in the last few moments of the episode. It was fantastic and very well done. As a writer it leaves me worried I can't fulfill the promises I have made in my books to such a high standard. I do think we could have done without the cliff hanger at the end. It wasn't necessary and I felt it took away from the high emotion of their meeting. Though on the other hand it does kind of encapsulate Victoria and Amanda's relationship.
Formula One
The first race is edging ever closer and I cannot wait for March 14th. I'm going to be up early to watch the qualifying that's for sure.
As of the end of yesterday I was at 111,000 words and three days behind schedule. Time to dig deep and claw it back starting tomorrow.
After a big false start I did manage to get back into the writing yesterday right up until the last minute. I'm hoping this has gotten me through whatever crap in my head has stopped me. There's no way to know until I get back to it. Given I've spent a lot of time playing Fallout 3 or watching TV recently when I should have been working, I'm going to treat tomorrow as a work day. That isn't an option today as I have my daughter round. I can only write this now as she is fast asleep in the next room, having asked to have a nap, something she almost never does with me.
Enough of my feeling sorry for myself. Let's get onto the most important things happening this week.
I have had an excellent review of Crusade for Vengeance and I can assure you, this woman has no connection with me at all. She found my first book somehow, read it and liked it. It seems she also liked my second book as well. Have a read:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Given my mood at the moment this has been a real boost and a big thank you to Sarah.
Revenge Season 4, Episode 7 - Wow.
I was really on the edge of giving up and then Emily/Amanda confronts her father in the last few moments of the episode. It was fantastic and very well done. As a writer it leaves me worried I can't fulfill the promises I have made in my books to such a high standard. I do think we could have done without the cliff hanger at the end. It wasn't necessary and I felt it took away from the high emotion of their meeting. Though on the other hand it does kind of encapsulate Victoria and Amanda's relationship.
Formula One
The first race is edging ever closer and I cannot wait for March 14th. I'm going to be up early to watch the qualifying that's for sure.
As of the end of yesterday I was at 111,000 words and three days behind schedule. Time to dig deep and claw it back starting tomorrow.
February 11, 2015
Revolution For Vengeance
An OK day at 4,500 words today. That's alright, it's exactly what I was expecting and why I pushed myself to get to 95,500 yesterday. There were a couple of reason for this. The first was I had an appointment with a solar panel company. It was very interesting and gave me a lot to think about. I'm quite excited to see their full estimate tomorrow. I'm looking forward to seeing the figures and working out if it's worth my while to do.
The main reason though was that I wrote a plot point I have been building towards since book one. It took more time as I tried to craft each sentence. I think I did it justice, I'll have to see how it sounds when I re-read it tomorrow.
I saw Taken 3 last night as planned. I'm still not in love with Fallout 3, though it is growing on me, so I went to the cinema instead. Taken 3 was OK and a reasonable conclusion to the story of Brian Mills. It was a little light on the close quarters fighting and one man army that made the first one so good, but still enjoyable.
I mentioned a while ago about Empire Magazine's review of the original, giving it one star. Personally I'd put Taken at 4 stars, Taken 2 at 3 stars and Taken 3 at 2 stars. The last is the only one I agree with Empire on.
Time to go, it's Karate night.
Total now at the big 100,000 words and two thirds complete. Wow.
The main reason though was that I wrote a plot point I have been building towards since book one. It took more time as I tried to craft each sentence. I think I did it justice, I'll have to see how it sounds when I re-read it tomorrow.
I saw Taken 3 last night as planned. I'm still not in love with Fallout 3, though it is growing on me, so I went to the cinema instead. Taken 3 was OK and a reasonable conclusion to the story of Brian Mills. It was a little light on the close quarters fighting and one man army that made the first one so good, but still enjoyable.
I mentioned a while ago about Empire Magazine's review of the original, giving it one star. Personally I'd put Taken at 4 stars, Taken 2 at 3 stars and Taken 3 at 2 stars. The last is the only one I agree with Empire on.
Time to go, it's Karate night.
Total now at the big 100,000 words and two thirds complete. Wow.
February 10, 2015
Revolution For Vengeance
A fantastic day today at 7,000 words. I'm very, very pleased with that. Mainly because I wasn't really sure what I was going to write when I got up this morning. I finished a big 40,000 word section yesterday and the next one I have been planning since book one. I just wasn't sure how I as going to move from one to the other.
It actually worked out to be quite easy, I used a little scene that came to me a couple of days ago and seemed to fit nicely. It snowballed from there and all of a sudden I was into a big reveal and massive emotion. Now comes the hard part. I chucked the grenade in and I need to piece it all back together again. This is where the whiteboard is brilliant. From one idea, it's quickly filled out into two distinct options. One is very main story arch based and the other emotional character development. Not sure which yet.
I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that I set myself a target of 10,000 word and two exercise sessions of Monday and Tuesday. I failed that time, but I set it again this week and actually completed it. I even threw in a run on Monday and did two and a half miles fairly comfortably. Is this the start of getting back to my June fitness level? Probably not, but I'll give it a go.
I'm going to play some Fallout 3 while dinner cooks and if I don't get completely hooked, go and see Take 3 finally later.
Revenge is still annoying me. Emily/Amanda still hasn't told her father who she is. The big cliff hanger at the end of the episode was her finding out he's be lying about where he's been. Hardly a surprise for us, but I just wanted to shout at her to talk to him. She's his daughter, no matter what either of them have done, they'll forgive one another. One more week of this and I'm getting really annoyed. That'll be the writers dragging it out further than is believable for the world/characters.
Hmm, that's a very condescending 'I'm a writer' thing to say. Oh well, that's what's going through my brain.
Total now at 95,500 words.
It actually worked out to be quite easy, I used a little scene that came to me a couple of days ago and seemed to fit nicely. It snowballed from there and all of a sudden I was into a big reveal and massive emotion. Now comes the hard part. I chucked the grenade in and I need to piece it all back together again. This is where the whiteboard is brilliant. From one idea, it's quickly filled out into two distinct options. One is very main story arch based and the other emotional character development. Not sure which yet.
I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that I set myself a target of 10,000 word and two exercise sessions of Monday and Tuesday. I failed that time, but I set it again this week and actually completed it. I even threw in a run on Monday and did two and a half miles fairly comfortably. Is this the start of getting back to my June fitness level? Probably not, but I'll give it a go.
I'm going to play some Fallout 3 while dinner cooks and if I don't get completely hooked, go and see Take 3 finally later.
Revenge is still annoying me. Emily/Amanda still hasn't told her father who she is. The big cliff hanger at the end of the episode was her finding out he's be lying about where he's been. Hardly a surprise for us, but I just wanted to shout at her to talk to him. She's his daughter, no matter what either of them have done, they'll forgive one another. One more week of this and I'm getting really annoyed. That'll be the writers dragging it out further than is believable for the world/characters.
Hmm, that's a very condescending 'I'm a writer' thing to say. Oh well, that's what's going through my brain.
Total now at 95,500 words.
February 9, 2015
Revolution For Vengeance
Another day and another 6,000 words written. I'm very pleased with that. Particularly as I kind of ran out of steam at 4 pm and 5,000 words. It was very tempting to leave it there, I was on budget after all. I started to get distracted on the internet and then I looked something up that has been kicking round my brain for ages - Solar panels.
Several houses around me have them and I've always wondered if it's worthwhile. A quick look on a couple of websites showed I could get all my power (4000 kwh a year) from solar and possibly sell more back to the grid. So I made a call and now have an appointment with someone in a few days.
This refreshed me and I got back to it.
One thing I was horrified to discover today is that Top Gear has been on for the past three weeks and I had no idea. Thankfully iplayer has them and I downloaded all three straight away, watching the first one at lunchtime. I do enjoy Top Gear. I know it's not really a car show anymore, but three middle aged guys having fun in and with cars. That's what I love about it and their fairly unpc view on the world.
Much is obviously a set up. For instance, Jeremy Clarkson was driving a hover craft in St Petersburg and accidently hit a beach to crash into the sea wall. Yet he managed to land on the one spot with no one in the way for him to hit. The rest of the beach had people all along it. As long as you don't take it seriously, it's very good fun to watch.
The weekend was very productive. I've currently got twenty jobs on my to do list. These are all not work related. I've got six rolling one's on my work list and they get done come hell or high water. So, twenty jobs and I managed to do six, including cleaning the car which I hate. I was very pleased with that. On top of them, I also played about five hours of Fallout 3 fulfilling my relaxation time as well.
I like Fallout 3, but I'm not loving it. If I loved it as much as GTA, Batman Arkham and Elder Scrolls, I would be itching to play it right now. As it is I'm fairly not that bothered. That is still a good thing in a way. When I bought Arkham Origins before Christmas, I did kind of lose four full working days due to weak will power.
Total now at 88,000 words
Several houses around me have them and I've always wondered if it's worthwhile. A quick look on a couple of websites showed I could get all my power (4000 kwh a year) from solar and possibly sell more back to the grid. So I made a call and now have an appointment with someone in a few days.
This refreshed me and I got back to it.
One thing I was horrified to discover today is that Top Gear has been on for the past three weeks and I had no idea. Thankfully iplayer has them and I downloaded all three straight away, watching the first one at lunchtime. I do enjoy Top Gear. I know it's not really a car show anymore, but three middle aged guys having fun in and with cars. That's what I love about it and their fairly unpc view on the world.
Much is obviously a set up. For instance, Jeremy Clarkson was driving a hover craft in St Petersburg and accidently hit a beach to crash into the sea wall. Yet he managed to land on the one spot with no one in the way for him to hit. The rest of the beach had people all along it. As long as you don't take it seriously, it's very good fun to watch.
The weekend was very productive. I've currently got twenty jobs on my to do list. These are all not work related. I've got six rolling one's on my work list and they get done come hell or high water. So, twenty jobs and I managed to do six, including cleaning the car which I hate. I was very pleased with that. On top of them, I also played about five hours of Fallout 3 fulfilling my relaxation time as well.
I like Fallout 3, but I'm not loving it. If I loved it as much as GTA, Batman Arkham and Elder Scrolls, I would be itching to play it right now. As it is I'm fairly not that bothered. That is still a good thing in a way. When I bought Arkham Origins before Christmas, I did kind of lose four full working days due to weak will power.
Total now at 88,000 words
