Wednesday, April 17th
Apr. 17th, 2013 09:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexandraerinThe Daily Report
Yesterday was pretty much an unexpected dead day. Error 404, brain not found all afternoon. I'd expected to expand the chapter for the day a bit more before it was posted, but I decided it was fine as is. Didn't get much else done.
Today marks one month using Office 2013/SkyDrive, and yep, I'm a believer. The last chapter of Tales of MU that I wrote, I even wrote it in Office rather than on Google Drive. It came surprisingly natural. I used to do all my writing in a Microsoft word processor (sometimes Works, sometimes Word), going back to when I was a teenager... I started using Google Drive to keep my work safe and accessible in the event of computer failure, but I've had ongoing problems with getting it to work consistently while offline, which limits its value when I'm traveling and poses a problem when the internet is being too distracting.
SkyDrive keeps the files locally and then syncs them, so that wouldn't be a problem, and it has a pretty nifty way of handling conflicts. I doubt I'm done with Google Drive... it's really good for random notes. But I think Office might be my new office suite.
The State of the Me
Doing okay.
Plans For Today
I'm a bit "behind" on my writing, insofar as I've had a day or two where I'd planned to write a chapter and haven't managed to. I also have found that the farther out I get, the sketchier my drafts become. Which actually makes a lot of sense, but in any event, I'm going to be trying to shore up the future chapters. I think I need a new numbering scheme for my drafts, too, as a couple of times now I've inserted a chapter between two I've already written.
Yesterday was pretty much an unexpected dead day. Error 404, brain not found all afternoon. I'd expected to expand the chapter for the day a bit more before it was posted, but I decided it was fine as is. Didn't get much else done.
Today marks one month using Office 2013/SkyDrive, and yep, I'm a believer. The last chapter of Tales of MU that I wrote, I even wrote it in Office rather than on Google Drive. It came surprisingly natural. I used to do all my writing in a Microsoft word processor (sometimes Works, sometimes Word), going back to when I was a teenager... I started using Google Drive to keep my work safe and accessible in the event of computer failure, but I've had ongoing problems with getting it to work consistently while offline, which limits its value when I'm traveling and poses a problem when the internet is being too distracting.
SkyDrive keeps the files locally and then syncs them, so that wouldn't be a problem, and it has a pretty nifty way of handling conflicts. I doubt I'm done with Google Drive... it's really good for random notes. But I think Office might be my new office suite.
The State of the Me
Doing okay.
Plans For Today
I'm a bit "behind" on my writing, insofar as I've had a day or two where I'd planned to write a chapter and haven't managed to. I also have found that the farther out I get, the sketchier my drafts become. Which actually makes a lot of sense, but in any event, I'm going to be trying to shore up the future chapters. I think I need a new numbering scheme for my drafts, too, as a couple of times now I've inserted a chapter between two I've already written.