Today's News and Weather Report

[la_samtyr]

Well, so far we have missed the worst of the storms, though that could change at any time. (I keep reminding myself of this because otherwise it's too easy to think no storms will come this way.) The snow we did get last week was not too bad, though most local schools were closed Thursday and Friday. We've had a little bit more since then but nothing major. Yesterday a lot of it melted off but today was too cold to do much melting.

Writing continues but slowly. Saturday I got a wireless mouse and I am working on my laptop now, which isn't too bad -- or at least it wouldn't be, if I could keep the cursor from jumping around all over and cutting into the wrong sentences/paragraphs. Nothing is worse than typing along only to discover that half the sentence has gone elsewhere. I am sure it is because I keep hitting the wrong keys on the laptop keyboard but unfortunately, I will just have to shut up and deal. but -- one of the pluses is that I now have spell-check again! :) [Because yes, even though spell-check is supposedly 'on' for my desktop, it isn't registering properly. Go me.] I'm also trying to get back in the overall mood I was in before my desktop decided on the latest tantrum. But there is progress -- just not as much as I had hoped for. And of course I am getting all sorts of ideas for everything but the story I am supposed to be working on. ::dramatic sigh::

One thing I do wish I had was a quick way to add in various names and other words from Tolkien to the dictionary section. All of the umlauts and other accents are hard to add properly. The umlauts are easy to spot but with names like Cirdan and Celebrian, I have a hard time being sure if the 'i' has an accent or not. And yes, I know they do but honestly? it doesn't always look like it.

Ok, time for me to switch computers again and see what sort of progress I can make .

Ttyl!

Comments

[engarian.livejournal.com]

What writing program are you using? I bless my custom dictionary - it catches all of the special characters that crop up in my writing. Unfortunately I can only access it in one of the programs I use, but it's fairly easy to plug the story into it for a final run-through before I actually publish.

- Erulisse (one L)

[samtyr.livejournal.com]

Right now I am using Word but it seems there ought to be a custom dictionary for Tolkien. It would be lovely if there were!

[engarian.livejournal.com]

Here's an idea - what about if, in April after B2ME is complete, you put a call-out for everyone to post their own custom dictionaries related to Tolkien. These could be combined, the duplicates and/or misspellings could be eliminated, and voila! your custom dictionary would be available for you as well as for others to share. I know that I always have to run a story through in word to catch these in my own custom dictionary, but there are characters I rarely mention that I seem to have to always look up.

- Erulisse (one L)

[samtyr.livejournal.com]

That is an excellent idea. I think I will do just that. Thank you for the suggestion. :)