A Good Night, A Cramped Hand

[davidklecha]

Words: 1,096

And yeah, that's a one night, hour-and-a-half total. At a point now where I can end the chapter (which currently weighs in at 4,684 words) if I want to, but I had thought to close it up a bit more tightly. Hopefully I can do it in five hundred words or so, or this is going to be a looooong chapter for me.

And I could have written them in the time I gave myself (which I still exceeded by ten minutes) if I'd been typing; not if I'd been sitting at my computer, as has been mentioned here repeatedly. But I'm giving more and more thought to the idea of picking up an old/used laptop for just such purposes. What I'm having a hard time fathoming is how much very old laptops are going for on E-Bay... it's almost discouraging that way. But I'm going to run over to this place called PC Exchange after I get home today and see what they've got.

And now... time to go work my arms.

Comments

[fairestcat]

I understand completely the problem of trying to write at a computer.

The internet connection and all this other stuff always seduces me away.

An old laptop with no internet, distracting games and such is actually a rather good idea. I'll have to remember that if I ever decide to get off my ass and really start writing more again.

[daveamongus.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's a bitch. Though I find the web handy as a basic research tool, which is the only problem with using an un-networked computer. But I'd love to have something to drag around with me, work and school and whatnot.

But the wife has officially given blessing to the idea of hunting down an old cheapie, so I'm hoping to stumble to something nice in the near future.