Afternoon Thoughts

[will_couvillier]

 

I really like having my feet back.

 

By the time the gout cleared, the other doggie was barking, to the point of being stiff and painful in itself.  That was just stress strain though, and today I walk normally, and not like I’ve been hitting the JD.  The absence of pain: coolness!

 

Been making slow progress on the WIP.  Problem is that I have 3 WIP; all the little things I want to do with each  is blending and mushing together in head, so unfortunately little is actually squeezing out of the fingers to screen.  Just gotta focus, I tell myself…

 

Would storing your work on a site such as Google Documents be useful?  I currently have all my writing on three places.  Flash drive, desktop, and burned to disk as a backup.  No paper, except for the old stuff.  I’d hate to lose everything is something unforeseen happened -- and that brought the thought of the Google Documents to mind.  Would keeping them there, where potentially anyone can access them, after their rights at all?  There are some odd twists to publication rights that are somewhat confusing.

 

The thought of a site like this to store you work just seems convenient.  You can lose the flash drive, the desktop’s hd can crisp, and the disks can go up in a fire, but that site set-up would still make the work available.  Humm.

 

More and more of the cool shows are stalling on TV.  Now there’s a place a writer has power, when networks’ rating are made by the quality of their re-runs!  When the strike is done and new stuff is on, I think the country will be a ghost town -- everyone will be inside watching the new stuff, and off the streets!

 

What Ever Happened To:  Doris Pischeria?  Loved that parallel universe stuff!

Comments

[littlebirdblue.livejournal.com]

Doris Piserchia is one of the great forgotten genre writers of all time.

She actually became very disillusioned with publishing in the late 80s, I believe. That coupled with some family tragedy kind of stalled out her writing career. Here's an interview from 2000 if you're interested:

http://www.digitalmediatree.com/dorispiserchia/interview/


Glad your foot's back!

[will-couvillier.livejournal.com]

It's a shame Doris Pischeria lost the drive -- I would love to read more of her stuff, specially if one of those shelved novels she mentions is a sequel to Spaceling. I still want to write a parallel universe story when the traversing is through those floating rings.

[alaneer.livejournal.com]

Absence of pain is good.

I never heard about this google thingy; I use an external hard drive for backup.

[littlebirdblue.livejournal.com]

And you can always just email them to yourself via a free email service with no storage limits, like Gmail.

[alaneer.livejournal.com]

48 MB--all my stuff. I don't think any email would hold that much. I also have them on my laptop, so I aught to be safe. (knock on wood)

[littlebirdblue.livejournal.com]

I think it would work just fine with gmail, but it sounds like you've got it under control.

[will-couvillier.livejournal.com]

True enough.

GMail is huge. I think it generates a mb of storage per hour for you. My gmail has for me 6359mb, and I'm only using 22mb of it.

All my writing takes up appr. 750mb. And I mean all -- I have everyhting on a 2gb flash drive, and it is only taking about a third of the space.

[will-couvillier.livejournal.com]

Oh, and that 750mb includes all the refrence work I've kept, like pdf's of Vision and articles I've referenced for some of my stories. The lion share of that volume are those.