It's about 10:40 and here I sit.
The kids are in bed and the wife has gone to work. The TV's tuned to Spike and CSI is on. I'm not sure what the episode is about since I'm only glancing at the it every now and then. My attention is really focused at looking at sites that may have feeds that interest me. I've had to do everything on my laptop this weekend since my desktop decided that it wanted to get all fussy.
Something has gone wrong with the video card - at least I think that's the problem. I suppose it could be one of the RAM sticks, but I don't feel like tearing down the machine and investigating it. I'll take it in to have it looked at Tuesday. Thank goodness the weekend is actually going by nice and slow - I still have one more day off before I go back to work. The most I've done so far this weekend is wash the Jeep, clean the garage and do a couple loads of laundry today. All in all it's been pretty boring. I'm thinking about starting another novel. So far I have a couple good characters, a decent plot line ( with a nice sub-plot ) and a very basic outline. Some authors don't use outlines. For example, Stephen King doesn't use them. In his book, On Writing, he even makes a compelling argument against them. He likes to allow the story to develop as it moves along and allows the characters to reveal the story. I've tried that approach and it works ok, but after researching Stephenie Meyer a bit, I can see the benefit to outlining. She likes to develop a rough but organized outline so that she can write the scene of her choice without disrupting the rest of the story. That's pretty appealing to me since I frequently have trouble starting the story. While I may have lots of great thoughts about individual scenes, new characters and twists, sometimes getting the ball rolling can be difficult. later . . .
The kids are in bed and the wife has gone to work. The TV's tuned to Spike and CSI is on. I'm not sure what the episode is about since I'm only glancing at the it every now and then. My attention is really focused at looking at sites that may have feeds that interest me. I've had to do everything on my laptop this weekend since my desktop decided that it wanted to get all fussy.
Something has gone wrong with the video card - at least I think that's the problem. I suppose it could be one of the RAM sticks, but I don't feel like tearing down the machine and investigating it. I'll take it in to have it looked at Tuesday. Thank goodness the weekend is actually going by nice and slow - I still have one more day off before I go back to work. The most I've done so far this weekend is wash the Jeep, clean the garage and do a couple loads of laundry today. All in all it's been pretty boring. I'm thinking about starting another novel. So far I have a couple good characters, a decent plot line ( with a nice sub-plot ) and a very basic outline. Some authors don't use outlines. For example, Stephen King doesn't use them. In his book, On Writing, he even makes a compelling argument against them. He likes to allow the story to develop as it moves along and allows the characters to reveal the story. I've tried that approach and it works ok, but after researching Stephenie Meyer a bit, I can see the benefit to outlining. She likes to develop a rough but organized outline so that she can write the scene of her choice without disrupting the rest of the story. That's pretty appealing to me since I frequently have trouble starting the story. While I may have lots of great thoughts about individual scenes, new characters and twists, sometimes getting the ball rolling can be difficult. later . . .
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