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Also, this pop-up, while mostly well-written, contains a few subtle quirks in the language that make my malware alarm go wild. I quote word for word...
"Windows recommend Activate Vista Home Security 2011
Click "Yes, Activate..." to register your copy of Vista Home Security 2011 and perform threat removal on your system."
One: there are elements of Engrish to your writing. Two: I have no recollection of ever having a trial version or whatever of your program. Three: kindly go to hell and perish there a million times.
Methinks it's time to get Malwarebytes on its arse.
Anyway, I managed to write four pages on 'The Great Couch Happening of '69' today, as well as kick arse on Final Fantasy VII. Usually it's one or the other with me. I write and keep writing, or I play FFVII and keep playing. I even managed to listen to a few records, and work a little on my screenplay version of 'The Great Couch Happening of '69'. All in all a productive day. This journal entry will be my final productive act of today, if you don't count sleeping as productive!
Personally, because I'm a lazy sod, I do. It makes me feel better about myself. If someone says to me "So you didn't write or draw anything today?" I'll look them square in the eye and say "I slept. That still counts as doing something with my life!"
Ehem.
The fact that I've split my novel into three big main plots to be tackled separately is working surprisingly well. I've now done a wee bit on all three plots and I can still see myself sticking it through to the end. If anything, I can still finish both it and 'The Chronicles of Stan' by the end of the year, even with NaNoWriMo and Script Frenzy '11. Then I can get to work on revising them, perhaps even get another major project underway.
I'm feeling pretty good about my writing. I just need to keep it up; learn to use my dead time efficiently. if I find myself with nothing to do, get out a pen and write! It can only end well, after all!
What I also need to do is get back to that good old post-NaNo routine where I'd sit down every day at 9pm and write 6 pages, ending at midnight. It was knackering work at first but I eventually settled into a rhythm in which I could do that and happily only get seven hours sleep, getting up in time for work at the charity shop or whatever it was I had planned that day.
Well, looks like I'm up for the duration tonight, anyway. Malwarebytes refuses to open (probably the virus affecting it - like how ThinkPoint was able to prevent me using the Internet) so I'm running a BitDefender scan instead. I'll get my slippers and my novel and make good use of the time. I hope this one will be as easy to bust as the other two were...
Did I mention that I can now play 'All This Crazy Gift of Time' by Kevin Ayers on guitar? I taught myself the other day. It's pretty easy really but shush, I'm proud of myself. Let me bask in my success before telling me to go and learn a five-chord song next!
Apologies for the crappy subject line. It's a bad joke anyway but if I got the quote wrong, blame the malware. Normally I'd check online just to make sure I got the right reference but NO. MALWARE SAYS 'U NO USE INTERNETZ'.
Seriously. Where the hell does all this Malware come from? There've been three instances of it in the past couple of months.
- Music:All This Crazy Gift of Time - Kevin Ayers
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I'm happy you have such progress in writing! I'm envious. I decided it's time to get my butt in gear. I need to make myself a morning and evening routine and make the most of my free time. Although, I too am a lazy sod and count sleep as being productive. If only I got stars for that! HA!
OH! AND guess what came in the mail yesterday?! The Wise Man's Fear, the long anticipated sequel of The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. And it came signed!! I've been rereading the first book and can't wait to get to the second one. Did they release it out by you yet?
Well, we fixed it anyway. It was still there this morning, so I told my Dad how to get rid of it and left him to it while I went to do my Prince's Trust thing. Huzzah!
Routines are awesome. I was on such a roll with my novel before NaNoWriMo - that's probably the only downside of NaNo, in fact; it totally threw me off. I've gotta get back into it properly.
I wish I could get grades for sleeping. Actually - the way my sleep patterns are, I'd probably fail :C
JEALOUSY. I'm gonna have to wait about 4 weeks to get a copy of TWMF because I've put a deposit on a guitar and clarinet and I'll be paying them off in a fortnight. Then it'll be another two weeks before I get paid... I hope you enjoy it! Another friend of mine has read it already and she says it's fantastic. The first was brilliant and Pat put a huge amount of time and effort into this book so it'll probably be marvellous.
Maybe the malware comes in from your siblings. Have you checked them for cooties lately? I believe cooties and malware come hand in hand these days.
HAHA. Grades for sleeping would be awesome. But I'm so inconsistent, I'd probably fail too. Bah.
How long did it take for you to get settled into a routine?
like a creepy obsessed minionbecause it's so detailed. That's what I love about Patrick Rothfuss' writing; it's so dense and poetic and three-dimensional but accessible. You feel the world though the words. It's brilliant.We have this theory that I bought my brother Ashley off e-Bay, so perhaps something dodgy came with him. Probably a malware lure, so every computer he touches is automatically condemned. And since Nathan does a load of downloading (malware feeds off the residual energy from the downloading process) they've begun to associate him with food and that's another reason they keep coming in. Perhaps I need to conduct some scientific research on the matter...
I'd take my sleeping A-Level again. I passed my GCSE with flying colours. It was when I got into college that I became insomniac/semi-nocturnal.
'How long did it take for you to get settled into a routine?' - I can't remember exactly - between two weeks and a month when I wasn't working with pressure. Doing NaNoWriMo, I just snapped right into it. Outside of NaNo, there's no pressure to finish and that's what I think causes my lack of progress.
I'd say just force yourself. Don't neglect oher commitments like work or school, obviously, but set some time aside for writing. And then make yourself write. :P
ACCIDENTAL ANONYMOUS POST MAKES ME CAUTIOUS AND PRONE TO CAPSLOCK MOMENTS.
BUT I SEE A USERNAME. *throws a party*
And how, for your viewing pleasure, the letter Q: Q!