Thursday, December 27, 2007
Carolyn Wrote
My sister took my son to the movies and then out for burger tonight. I got to stay home and write. Over 1800 words. Chapter two had some interesting revelations for me, just as did chapter 1. I find that with a full time job and family etc, that I just don't often do much more than 1000 words a day. So that may not seem like so much, except at that rate, in 90 days I'll have 90,000 words. Have to, actually.
Then I ran into some trouble with zipping files. I forgot how much the file zipper program that comes with XP sucks. Awful! I'm not going to deal with WinZip again, though I like it a lot so I ended up downloading 7-zip which is a nice, free little program. Then I re-discovered the fact that the Mac OS assumes a file drag is a file MOVE, where as Windows does a Copy. Oops. So I had to mess around with getting my zip archives (one for the thumb drive, containing only the chapters and a few supporting documents) and a daily zip of everything -- I just add the stuff that's new, and save it with the date name. That way I have a daily archive of my work. And, as happened recently with Scandal, I did have to troll through my archives looking for a certain file in a known state. So, now I have two daily archives and one to transfer to the laptop. Whew! Plus I found a version of 7-zip that works on the Mac, so I think I'm good there.
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