Woo-oo!

I'm going to Confluence!! Wahoo!!! Finally got my plane tix and have the hotel-ness mostly worked out with Julie. Leaving the 27th, back the 31st. Yay!

Duuude, I wrote so much last night. 20 pages or something. Seriously, almost non-stop writing from about seven PM to four in the AM. Hells yeah! But as time wore on I think my writing started following my tired brain, so today is all revision time. Got a lot to read over. Also thinking of chopping out a bit. I'm up to 290 pages and they haven't even left Tamara yet. J and Scryes still have to come around too. That'll all add up to probably another thirty pages, give or take. Then probably fifty pages at sea, thirty on the Islands, and quite possibly another hundred for the whole time in Larotha with the Dragons. That adds up to what? *calculates*...500, I think. Hm. Not as bad as I thought. That's assuming I don't think of any other things to happen between now and then. This most recent scene wasn't in my original plan, but it was necessary to introduce a certain new badguy.

Of course, pages don't matter as much as wordcount. Let's check that right now...

152,888! Jeeebus! Wasn't the entire LotR trilogy only 200K? Oh man. And since I'm a masochist, let's check Penta...

236,646. Oh my! Mot is going to top that by some fifty thousand words or so, I'm sure. Penta is 464 pages, Mot will come a lot closer to 500 or more (probably more, rate I'm going). And this is all on Word, too.

Well...this is what editing is for, I suppose. Might as well plug along, write what I want and then go back and kill my baby later. *tear* When I think about how much I'm going to have to chop out...

Oh well. This is the best part of writing anyway--I might as well enjoy it.

Microsoft Word Hates You

Well, it's finally happened. Microsoft Word popped up with a message saying, "You have too many spelling and grammar errors for us to keep advertising it with those annoying red and green lines, so fuck you and check the spellcheck if you want to know how much you suck at spelling and grammar!"

If that's what the box really said, I'd like Microsoft a lot better.

But what can I say? Most of it isn't my fault. Word doesn't recognize "Kail" or "Taenailo" or "tiern" or "Massori" as words, so that's several thousand right there. Plus there's a lot of fragment sentences--the good kind, the kind that add flavor. Mostly they show up when Taenailo takes the mic, (rarely), because his mind just works in fragment sentences.

The thing that sucks most is I won't know if I made simple mistakes, like spelling "the" as "teh" since it won't redline it for me. The red lines do come in handy sometimes. Ah well.

This actually happened when I was writing "Taenailo", the original story about cats, mostly because everyone's name in there was unrecognizable. Never did it in Penta, though. Probably because by then I'd discovered the "Add to Dictionary" button in the spellcheck box. Which is very helpful. I'd advise anyone who uses Word and writes characters with names like "Taenailo" to just add all the names to the dictionary. Spares you a lot of trouble.