Bearded and Broke
Posted at 22:21:00
on Mon, April 03rd 2006 by graham
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You can tell I'm working hard when my procrastination involves, variously, installing Fedora Core 5 on a VMWare virtual machine, just for the sake of having a play, taking photos of my currently bearded self and listening to the umpteen editions of the Celtic Music News Podcast that have slowly accumulated in my CastPodder downloads folder like a drift of mp3-compressed snowflakes.
As you can see from the sidebar the work-in-progress is going not-too badly. My work rate has been decreased a little by the fact that it's currently all handwritten. The lack of a laptop hasn't impacted on me over-much other than to make me learn to write a little more readably on my spiral-bound pads, but it has slowed me down a bit because I can't manage more than three or four sides of A4 (about 1,000 words) a time without getting cramp. I had thought that the story was only going to be about 5,000 words long, but at the moment it's looking like it's going to be nearer the 7,000 mark. As long as it works that's fine with me. Most of the work I've done so far has been done in Lancaster's Caffé Nero, which has made it a somewhat expensive 4,000 words as words go. There's no better place to write than in cafés. It's easy to get lost in the susurrus and there's nothing to distract you, but it is prohibitively costly to do it for any length of time. I don't know how Rowling managed to afford to write Harry Potter in cafés, though I suppose she wasn't going into one where a single cup of coffee costs you a quarter of the money you'd usually spend on lunch in a week. Perhaps I should find a slightly cheaper drink to drink whilst I'm writing (Starbucks, though we don't have one in Lancaster, do serve ridiculously cheap but ludicrously big cups of tea). Maybe I need to find a cheaper place to write, too.
I'm wondering how to get back round to podcasting again. I still have the libsyn account, which seems a bit silly if I'm not producing anything. I'm loathe to ask whether anyone wants me to start podcasting again, partly because you can count the readers of this blog without ripping off anyone else's limbs, and partly because of the stubborn person in my head saying 'It's not up to them, it's up to you, fool.' At the moment I'm thinking of restarting the podcast when I start the hard copy edits on the novel, and podcasting that experience. We shall see.
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