Category: News

I also made a mess, which was fun.

Well I have not update this site in a while and that I mainly due to a complete lack of drive after a family lose.  I have also been playing Civ 5 a lot which is a major time sink. Good news is my MacBook Air is not powerfully enough to run the huge levels. I’ve been getting low memory errors so I have had to stop playing ;-). I will need to upgrade in time for Civilization : Beyond Earth which is out in October.

But the good news is i’ve started to get back in to the writing frame of mind and made good progress on my novel. Will update the web site with progress and thought as it happens. Got to give the web crawlers something to read :-).

 

Well today I was voting in the european and local council elections. I Did my part and voted which is good. Strange thing is I voted at 7am in the morning .

This was because my girlfriend was join to college and I was suffering insomnia, so thought why not? I was up from two trying to sleep with out much success.

After my girlfriend left for college I sat down at 8.30 and started to right and this time the muse found me. I have churned out four and half page which is very good for me. I might have to start going to bed earlier and getting up at 6am to help the muse find me. I’m going to be knackered doing it but if it helps my out put increase my output I’m all for it.

Well thing are not progressing as quickly as I had hoped but I did set my self rather high goal. My new years resolution was to complete a novel by the end of the year. So far I have not much closer to completing it.  I think the main reason is a completely misjudged the sheer amount of preplanning you have to do to be in a position to  start a novel length story. All I have done so far is short stories. I’ve enjoyed these immensely but they are a different thing entirely. One where you don’t actually need to worry about where the story is going. With a novel You do.

So here i am completely behind schedule, wondering when you have actually done enough research. I fear if spend to much time planning and researching I will never get it done.

Something that has made starting a lot easier is the idea that this novel will never see the light of day. As I am not to worry about getting it in to a publishable state. So the quality of the story matters less. That is the only thing that allows me to even think about starting.

Well will do for an update for now peeps.

 

Perils of wasting time on the internet in a handy venn diagram to explain.

PS I love a good panorama 🙂

Well now, here is another piece of procrastination.

I sit at my desk staring out of the window as Birmingham try to wash it self clean with dirty water, as the wind blows about like an asthmatic who has finally worked out how to use an inhaler.

I’ve got back from the doctors where we had the good news that my girlfriend has not got a chest infection. Which is good.

There is a point when you realise that all your hopes and dream realise that you have to stop arseing around and get your head down. Lost a couple of days already to the crack like game call “Game Dev Tycoon“.  It is a horrible addictive game and depressing similar to Game Dev Stories. All of this brings into focus that I will have to cut the amount of games I play over the next year, don’t even talk to me about the new consoles. I have not decided which one to get but either one is now out of my budget, which is sad.

Oh Well at least with the self-imposed exile I’ll be able to save a bit of money. ‘He says in vain’.

Peace out peeps.