iBook's back!
Wow, that's what I call quick service. I sent the thing off on Thursday, and it got back yesterday afternoon. And, I'm glad to say, I lost nothing but general preferences (alert sound, date+time, speech preferences etc). All my data is intact, and the screen works as well as it has ever done! w00t!
Following up on comments further back, I have to say that I can never work as well with pen+paper. I had to write by hand quite a lot a while back, but I always found that I could never get ideas down quickly enough (fast as I write by hand, I always type far, far faster), and the writing was usually totally illegible afterwards. I also find that the very act of writing by hand distorts the idea I'm trying to get across. Don't ask me to explain this; it's one of my personal mysteries. When I'm using a computer (with the notable exception of a Windows machine), it feels more direct, somehow. To be honest with you, it's annoying. It means I'm totally useless for writing whenever I haven't got a computer to hand.
Anyway, Project White Light is now coming along well. I put in masses of research time yesterday, so I now have a complete set of maps, photos and other relevant data for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one of the initial settings for the book. I've also got a huge range of information covering various emerging branches of psychoelectronic science, not to mention about five hundred pages of data about Bawdsey Manor, the proposed facility where the characters will be conducting their research. The plot's coming along nicely, too. I reckon I'm on target to start writing it by the beginning of March.
Revision for Cold Witness is also progressing well; I'm already starting to get responses from some of my proofreaders, and I've noticed some stupid (okay, downright embarrassing) mistakes. It should be ready in second draft form before very long, and then I'll be ready to start the really intensive revision.
Oh, I nearly forgot. The Travellers have been given an ultimatum by the police: clear out of Tunstall Forest by a set date, or we send in the heavy gang to force you out. The Forestry Commission has already dug up the entrances to all the other open spaces in the forest, so they won't be back here again in a hurry. They'll probably settle in the northern reaches of Rendlesham Forest with the other lot. Grrr. And then, once they're gone, they'll invariably leave their campsite strewn with trash, burned, chewed-up and totally uninhabitable for decades. They're a menace.
Wow, that's what I call quick service. I sent the thing off on Thursday, and it got back yesterday afternoon. And, I'm glad to say, I lost nothing but general preferences (alert sound, date+time, speech preferences etc). All my data is intact, and the screen works as well as it has ever done! w00t!
Following up on comments further back, I have to say that I can never work as well with pen+paper. I had to write by hand quite a lot a while back, but I always found that I could never get ideas down quickly enough (fast as I write by hand, I always type far, far faster), and the writing was usually totally illegible afterwards. I also find that the very act of writing by hand distorts the idea I'm trying to get across. Don't ask me to explain this; it's one of my personal mysteries. When I'm using a computer (with the notable exception of a Windows machine), it feels more direct, somehow. To be honest with you, it's annoying. It means I'm totally useless for writing whenever I haven't got a computer to hand.
Anyway, Project White Light is now coming along well. I put in masses of research time yesterday, so I now have a complete set of maps, photos and other relevant data for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one of the initial settings for the book. I've also got a huge range of information covering various emerging branches of psychoelectronic science, not to mention about five hundred pages of data about Bawdsey Manor, the proposed facility where the characters will be conducting their research. The plot's coming along nicely, too. I reckon I'm on target to start writing it by the beginning of March.
Revision for Cold Witness is also progressing well; I'm already starting to get responses from some of my proofreaders, and I've noticed some stupid (okay, downright embarrassing) mistakes. It should be ready in second draft form before very long, and then I'll be ready to start the really intensive revision.
Oh, I nearly forgot. The Travellers have been given an ultimatum by the police: clear out of Tunstall Forest by a set date, or we send in the heavy gang to force you out. The Forestry Commission has already dug up the entrances to all the other open spaces in the forest, so they won't be back here again in a hurry. They'll probably settle in the northern reaches of Rendlesham Forest with the other lot. Grrr. And then, once they're gone, they'll invariably leave their campsite strewn with trash, burned, chewed-up and totally uninhabitable for decades. They're a menace.
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