A few Measly Steps a Day #2

Hi,
I went to my all-you-can-eat Indian/Pakistani restaurant. You may remember that I go there when my writing gets stuck, and somehow, magically, the food jump-starts my writing. I think it's that eating takes my mind off of the negative thoughts. Anyway, it worked. I got about three pages of rough draft done. Of course, they're not great writing, but that's what editing is for. I've been editing soon after writing the draft. It seems to work better than writing page after page of rough work and then looking at it and getting disheartened. Now it's time to get my housework done. I did a load of laundry, and I wrote a list of things to do.

Here's hoping.

I'm not a mystery, horror, sci-fi or pulp fiction fan, so I'm late to the party to appreciated the dazzling quantity of work people like Isaac Asimov, Stephen King, Georges Simenon, and Dean Wesley Smith among others crank out. How's it done?

Delightful, you said you are not waiting to finish to revise but cycling back sooner to tighten up your writing. That what DW Smith described in Writing Into the Dark. He does everything he can to let his creative mind just have a fun time writing. Right now he's writing a short story a day! 1500 words minimum. Even still, that's 6 pages double spaced. And he's thinking he'll turn a few into novels.

I'm tiptoeing back into my own writing (rather than hack work) after, oh, 50 years. Tho I'm writing film script style to meet the culture of my script read group, I'm going to "produce" them on the cheap. There's a Stanford/Harvard law professor, Lawrence Lessig, who has refined an amazing presentation style using Powerpoint and typography. Very basic slides, most with fewer than 7 words. I'm adapting that method to dialogues I'm composing.

There are also AI-powered text to voice apps that will table read for me. Putting them all together—there lies the journey.

Well done, delightful! Hemingway drank and went to bullfights(1); you do Indian/Pakistani buffet. Sounds like a better choice. Now I'm wondering, what do I do to get unstuck?

(1)I vaguely associate drinking and bullfights with Hemingway, but I'm not sure there's any truth to it.

A great, free replacement for MS PowerPoint is LibreOffice Impress. It's part of the LibreOffice suite of programs that includes spreadsheet, word processor, database, art-like thingie.

So download the whole darn thing!

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Typing this on my tiny ipad Mini 7 keypad. My fingers are not any smaller, tho.

In Philly. Chiller than expected but likely to warm up starting tomorrow.

I tried the LibreOffice suite. Since my idea of this production is getting simpler by the day, Google Slides will be my first option.

I have met a student actor a couple of times on the university campus. When dry and warm might invite her to sit with me on a bench and record my text. It’s 10 minutes. We could knock off 2 takes in 30 minutes.

This exercise is benefiting me in a way as I did not expect. I am able to put in words reactions from my own current conversations. My feelings about my own beliefs are deepening. I stumble on new takes on some things and adjust my behavior accordingly.