Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven
Feb. 24th, 2011 11:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceIt could drive a person crazy.
I am - I may have mentioned? - just a tad tense already. Flying to America in four days, with a novel to finish first and moneystuffs to sort out before the end of the month and the boys to fix with their sitters and and and. And a booklaunch and party tonight, and a party on Saturday night, neither of which I could decently cut.
So. Tight of time am I, and tight of spirit, and I need a Really Good Day writing-wise. Today, I need it to be Really Good, please.
So I have arrived at the Lit & Phil, and there is some kind of building work or roadwork going on down the street, where they are using jackhammers without surcease; and the sound of it just blasts straight into the Silence Room down in the cellars here, and makes a joke of that.
And I resolve to overcome it, to tune it out and work through; and go to my Dropbox for my manuscript - and the latest version isn't there, all the work I did last night that I need to build on now. Don't ask me why, it's just not. I probably did something stupid, saved it in all the wrong places or something.
So okay, I have to start from a vacuum, remember roughly where my character was and what doing, write from there and patch it in later. It's not ideal, but I've done it before.
Okay. A word, a phrase, a sentence, half a line.
Wait, what...?
All my lower-case t's are missing their tails as I type. It looks weird.
I have run tests, and it is only in my font-of-choice, the typeface that I work in, Bitstream Charter 11-point. I can change to another font, any other font, and it's fine. But this is the one that I work in, and I am a creature of habit, and it's broken.
I don't understand this. I know how actual physical type can get damaged, but screen-type? What in the world has happened to it? And can I fix it? Halp!
I am - I may have mentioned? - just a tad tense already. Flying to America in four days, with a novel to finish first and moneystuffs to sort out before the end of the month and the boys to fix with their sitters and and and. And a booklaunch and party tonight, and a party on Saturday night, neither of which I could decently cut.
So. Tight of time am I, and tight of spirit, and I need a Really Good Day writing-wise. Today, I need it to be Really Good, please.
So I have arrived at the Lit & Phil, and there is some kind of building work or roadwork going on down the street, where they are using jackhammers without surcease; and the sound of it just blasts straight into the Silence Room down in the cellars here, and makes a joke of that.
And I resolve to overcome it, to tune it out and work through; and go to my Dropbox for my manuscript - and the latest version isn't there, all the work I did last night that I need to build on now. Don't ask me why, it's just not. I probably did something stupid, saved it in all the wrong places or something.
So okay, I have to start from a vacuum, remember roughly where my character was and what doing, write from there and patch it in later. It's not ideal, but I've done it before.
Okay. A word, a phrase, a sentence, half a line.
Wait, what...?
All my lower-case t's are missing their tails as I type. It looks weird.
I have run tests, and it is only in my font-of-choice, the typeface that I work in, Bitstream Charter 11-point. I can change to another font, any other font, and it's fine. But this is the one that I work in, and I am a creature of habit, and it's broken.
I don't understand this. I know how actual physical type can get damaged, but screen-type? What in the world has happened to it? And can I fix it? Halp!