Still going...
I haven't posted anything for a long while for two reasons:
1) The blogger website has had reoccurring problems connecting to my webserver. It very frustrating when I want to post something and have to wait three days before I can get it up. I don't really know what the problem is. I've done a lot of research and it appears that this is a problem that blogger has had for a couple years off and on. Some people believe it is a problem with the end server (where benmurphy.net is hosted) while many others believe it is a problem with blogger. Regardless, every other time I go to make a post it doesn't work. I'm looking at using an alternate blogging program, but this one is so nice... when it works!
2) I haven't had a lot to report! I'm still doing the revision by going through the firs printed manuscript chapter by chapter. I realized I wasn't doing it fast enough so I've recommitted myself to doing it every night. I takes about an hour per chapter and I'm about 1/4 through the book. It's taken me a month to do the first fourth, which is way too long for my taste. To be fair, the first part of the book was written almost 2 years ago and really needed some work. I think from here on out it will go much smoother.
Still, I have another 20 hours to go, so if I spend an hour a night, it will take me 20 days to finish. That still feels too long! I really wish I could do it faster, but considering I only had about 90 minutes a day to write the book in the first place, I shouldn't beat myself up over not having the time.
I really do have the time, it's just a matter of using it efficiently. Still, I laugh that it took me 15 minutes last night to go over two sentences. I loved both, but they didn't fit well together so I spent that time trying to make a match. It's funny that it took me 20 seconds to originally write the 30 words in question, but 15 minutes to get it to work. *sigh* So is the life of a writer... it could be worse!
Now, let's hope this blog goes through.
1) The blogger website has had reoccurring problems connecting to my webserver. It very frustrating when I want to post something and have to wait three days before I can get it up. I don't really know what the problem is. I've done a lot of research and it appears that this is a problem that blogger has had for a couple years off and on. Some people believe it is a problem with the end server (where benmurphy.net is hosted) while many others believe it is a problem with blogger. Regardless, every other time I go to make a post it doesn't work. I'm looking at using an alternate blogging program, but this one is so nice... when it works!
2) I haven't had a lot to report! I'm still doing the revision by going through the firs printed manuscript chapter by chapter. I realized I wasn't doing it fast enough so I've recommitted myself to doing it every night. I takes about an hour per chapter and I'm about 1/4 through the book. It's taken me a month to do the first fourth, which is way too long for my taste. To be fair, the first part of the book was written almost 2 years ago and really needed some work. I think from here on out it will go much smoother.
Still, I have another 20 hours to go, so if I spend an hour a night, it will take me 20 days to finish. That still feels too long! I really wish I could do it faster, but considering I only had about 90 minutes a day to write the book in the first place, I shouldn't beat myself up over not having the time.
I really do have the time, it's just a matter of using it efficiently. Still, I laugh that it took me 15 minutes last night to go over two sentences. I loved both, but they didn't fit well together so I spent that time trying to make a match. It's funny that it took me 20 seconds to originally write the 30 words in question, but 15 minutes to get it to work. *sigh* So is the life of a writer... it could be worse!
Now, let's hope this blog goes through.
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