Plodding on
Hmm interesting how you always remember things being easier than they were. Four weeks in and its a real hard slog. It didnt help that the weekend was my Birthday, and i didnt then want to do any work for two days. Also it didnt help the fact that I played a few computer games too, the classic (and should be remade) "Xcom Terror from the Deep", and a new game (demo in this case) of a new war game RST (the name which escapes me right now). Well ive had to tear myself away from it, so i can get back on track.
Im currently about 19 pages down, havent yet submitted my first two chapters (though i have more than two in progress), but I also havent got my contracts back yet, so Im kinda ok for the moment - well fingers crossed ;). Unfortunately the way I work means that there are 4 chapters in progress, but none are done.
Im still working on Chapter 16, which is a CDROM menu program (in fact two menus one for a game and one for a business). It's taking a while, and its hard work for some reason. It's just not flowing easily. Apparently I was like this last time (so I've been reliably informed).
Chapter 16 is a good chapter in theory, because its all based on fact, and exact steps and so is more finishable than a chapter where i have to think and type (you always have to go over that more).
Ive got Friday off as holiday this week again, and so hopefully i can scratch out some pages.... not much fun eh! Problem is that its really early days and its going to be like this until at least Christmas.
Current Page calculation 55.7 pages. Target for September 75.
Seems that my calculation of 30 pages a week might be over doing it. We shall see the second week in October when ive scheduled thats how many i will do a week. Seems that i am generally doing a couple of pages a day. Weekends I should be able to get 10. So in theory 30 shouldnt be a problem, but alot of time is spent taking the example files apart and rebuilding them (as you have to do this to write the exact steps of what to do).
So time to get back to it, hopefully when i post my blog again towards the end of the week or weekend i will have reached my 75 and got my two chapters done! Lets hope so.
October will be hell :)
Jason
Listening to some A-ha and Talk Talk today
Im currently about 19 pages down, havent yet submitted my first two chapters (though i have more than two in progress), but I also havent got my contracts back yet, so Im kinda ok for the moment - well fingers crossed ;). Unfortunately the way I work means that there are 4 chapters in progress, but none are done.
Im still working on Chapter 16, which is a CDROM menu program (in fact two menus one for a game and one for a business). It's taking a while, and its hard work for some reason. It's just not flowing easily. Apparently I was like this last time (so I've been reliably informed).
Chapter 16 is a good chapter in theory, because its all based on fact, and exact steps and so is more finishable than a chapter where i have to think and type (you always have to go over that more).
Ive got Friday off as holiday this week again, and so hopefully i can scratch out some pages.... not much fun eh! Problem is that its really early days and its going to be like this until at least Christmas.
Current Page calculation 55.7 pages. Target for September 75.
Seems that my calculation of 30 pages a week might be over doing it. We shall see the second week in October when ive scheduled thats how many i will do a week. Seems that i am generally doing a couple of pages a day. Weekends I should be able to get 10. So in theory 30 shouldnt be a problem, but alot of time is spent taking the example files apart and rebuilding them (as you have to do this to write the exact steps of what to do).
So time to get back to it, hopefully when i post my blog again towards the end of the week or weekend i will have reached my 75 and got my two chapters done! Lets hope so.
October will be hell :)
Jason
Listening to some A-ha and Talk Talk today
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