Keeping track
Sep. 11th, 2012 12:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceIn the cafe this morning, watching virtuous souls busy with their laptops, it occurred to me that I should have taken mine. When Jeannie and Rick had to go to work, I could have done the same thing: whipped out the LHP and worked there on the Steampunk!Mars story, not come home till it was ready to go.
Instead of which, I rode home and have done the work here, more slowly and with distractions. Still: it is done. And because I am now Efficient, I have created a Submissions folder and saved the standard-manuscript-format version there* to be handy when it comes back and has to go out again; and I have a spreadsheet, good lord, to keep track of where it's been. I never do this.
And now - for those of you keeping track of where I've been - I am going to mount my bike again and go whizzing off for this and that, down at El Camino. Or actually, maybe I'll have lunch first. *is peckish*
*NB: for the avoidance of doubt, I hate Standard Manuscript Format, and decline to work in it. It's like a business suit: uncomfortable, constricting and ugly, and only to be donned at the last minute before leaving the house.
Instead of which, I rode home and have done the work here, more slowly and with distractions. Still: it is done. And because I am now Efficient, I have created a Submissions folder and saved the standard-manuscript-format version there* to be handy when it comes back and has to go out again; and I have a spreadsheet, good lord, to keep track of where it's been. I never do this.
And now - for those of you keeping track of where I've been - I am going to mount my bike again and go whizzing off for this and that, down at El Camino. Or actually, maybe I'll have lunch first. *is peckish*
*NB: for the avoidance of doubt, I hate Standard Manuscript Format, and decline to work in it. It's like a business suit: uncomfortable, constricting and ugly, and only to be donned at the last minute before leaving the house.