I've completely stalled out for writing an article. Luckily it was due in three days so I of course, used every waking moment to putter around it. I've cooked, cleaned, done laundry, played with kiddo both on his computer and Play Dough sessions, sewn the holes in a few shirts for repairs, watched Twilight: Eclipse, read some of the book I'm currently reading, yelled at kiddo for having a conniption over his computer, gave him a bath- junior not the computer, lol- (which he took a bucket of water and got me soaking wet, was so not happy on that one, but I was more calm than I expected)...
and squeezed out maybe 100 words for the article.
I'm stalling. Ironically stalling for the article has kicked up some good ideas for the novel I'm trying to write. I brushed off the virtual dust and picked up where I left off. Tho, it was short lived. I felt the guilt of not writing the article in it's place, a.k.a. being responsible. I had some really good ideas and I knew my muse was there with me waiting for me to continue writing the novel, but I really needed to focus on that listless article instead. So, like a good little cubby I jotted down my ideas and went back to the thing that I was puttering over.
I then proceeded stared at the screen for about 20 min and then websurfed.
Oh, this was the topper: at midnight my computer monitor flatlined. Literally. I thought an alien species had hijacked my computer because all went blank to a pitch black screen with one thin streak of light from left to right of the monitor. Hubby was pulling a double shift at work, and when he got home he saw it and immediately knew what it was. The veritcal thingie inside the monitor was shot. No way of fixing it.
I had a "OMG-I-WON'T-BE-CONNECTED-TO-MY-COMPUTER" moment. Well, wouldn't be able to see my computer moment, but the same effect is implied.
Hubby, God bless!, hooked up his monitor to mine and we're going to look for a new monitor for me later. Sigh of relief. Good thing too. That article is due in 12 hrs and I need to finish it. And am I? No. I'm blogging atm. Another stalling tactic.
Oh dear, it's lunchtime. Maybe I'll make some grilled cheese sandwiches for kiddo and myself...
Stall... stall... stall... BLEH!
Write or Die for you. Just put the word count in, turn the speakers up, and go. nothing like crying baby or bad violin to get those fingers typing.
ReplyDeleteIf that doesn't work, I've had some luck with the built in speech-to-text that came w/ windoze. Only really works w/ M$ programs, but wordpad isn't that bad.
Haven't used the speech to text thing in a long time. I did have an episode of using it for swearing. That novelty wore off soon enough and I haven't used it since, lol.
ReplyDeleteSometimes (only sometimes, though it's getting smarter) it's easier to talk than make the idea come out my fingers. Just put my brain on auto and fix it later. It'd work better if it were more accurate, but at least it works a bit. I keep having to add words...
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