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I'm at the beach (wonderful!), which slows by nature — but the Net connection is painfully slow here, so I'm going to blame my absence on that. It's certainly part of it.
I have been working, although in a lazy way: Q&A for the P.S. section of the Canadian hardcover, another Q&A for the French film-maker, emails from my agent, my L.A. editor.
This morning I started the next draft of the plot, but was flummoxed by software. Grrr! Word 2008 is missing some critical features that it used to have: the capacity to print out comments, for example. Then suddenly -- something I did, no doubt -- caused the formatting toolbar to disappear. I could no longer even increase the size of the type. I spent way too much time trying to figure it out. Then I tried Mac's iWork Pages programme. This software has a lovely feel, and seemed easy to master -- but for one thing: how to split the screen?!
It seemed to me that both these programmes had loads of bells and whistles, but were lacking in some basic word processing tools. I ended up going back to Word 2004: I'm so glad I kept the old programme.
With all this, I actually did manage to get some plotting work done.
But now ... back to the beach! (May my friends and family in the North forgive me.)
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Hi Sandra. Lucky you on that beach! I'm buried in snow here in Quebec. I was just wondering if all that beautiful sunshine and perfect setting somehow influences your writing? Do you feel you write better or worse depending on where you are...inspiration-wise? Just thought I'd ask. Thanks.
Hi Ms. Lucy,
I just posted a long answer to your post, and it got lost in the Blogger airwaves. (Grrr!)
Basically: I read a great deal at the beach, both for research and pleasure, and mull and mangle the plot, but I'm not writing yet — not in the sense that you mean.
Enjoy the snow! Quebec is beautiful in any season.
Cheers,
Sandra
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