{"id":269,"date":"2006-11-19T09:11:05","date_gmt":"2006-11-19T17:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scriniary.smallinfinity.net\/blog\/2006\/11\/19\/weekly-summaries-nov-12\/"},"modified":"2006-11-19T09:11:05","modified_gmt":"2006-11-19T17:11:05","slug":"weekly-summaries-nov-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/19\/weekly-summaries-nov-12\/","title":{"rendered":"On Quitting Writing; Magic vs Science"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2Last week there was some discussion over the 101 Reasons to Stop Writing blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For those of you who may have missed them, here are \"[info]\"<\/a>jaylake<\/strong><\/a><\/span>‘s post<\/a> and \"[info]\"<\/a>arcaedia<\/strong><\/a><\/span>‘s post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Also, don’t miss \"[info]\"<\/a>jimvanpelt<\/strong><\/a><\/span>‘s Signs that you need help quitting writing.<\/a><\/p>\n

I don’t have any thoughts to add: basically, I don’t see the point in quitting writing, or telling other people to quit writing. If it’s something I enjoy, why would I quit just because I’m unsuccessful?<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2Via \"[info]\"<\/a>sartorias<\/strong><\/a><\/span>, \"[info]\"<\/a>swan_tower<\/strong><\/a><\/span> on Magic vs Science<\/a> in fantasy.<\/p>\n

If you remove that personal element, making the procedure something anyone can do, then you have science, not magic. Even if it doesn’t obey the laws of science as we know them, it’s imaginary or invented science, not magic.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Very interesting essay; also useful to me in terms of clarifying what I can do to strengthen my distinction between magic and science in Shadow Play<\/em> (and in the rest of the books in that world, but it’s less confusing there).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Links:<\/b><\/p>\n

•Last week there was some discussion over the 101 Reasons to Stop Writing blog<\/a>. For those of you who may have missed them, here are [info]<\/a>jaylake<\/b><\/a><\/span>‘s post<\/a> and [info]<\/a>arcaedia<\/b><\/a><\/span>‘s post<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Also, don’t miss [info]<\/a>jimvanpelt<\/b><\/a><\/span>‘s Signs that you need help quitting writing.<\/a><\/p>\n

I don’t have any thoughts to add: basically, I don’t see the point in quitting writing, or telling other people to quit writing. If it’s something I enjoy, why would I quit just because I’m unsuccessful? (Or 10k words behind on Nanowrimo…)<\/p>\n

•Someone found my website last week by searching for “free printouts cooked chicken”. I hope they were looking for recipes.<\/p>\n

•Via [info]<\/a>sartorias<\/b><\/a><\/span>, [info]<\/a>swan_tower<\/b><\/a><\/span> on Magic vs Science<\/a> in fantasy. <\/p>\n

If you remove that personal element, making the procedure something anyone can do, then you have science, not magic. Even if it doesn’t obey the laws of science as we know them, it’s imaginary or invented science, not magic. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Very interesting essay; also useful to me in terms of clarifying what I can do to strengthen my distinction between magic and science in Shadow Play<\/i> (and in the rest of the books in that world, but it’s less confusing there).<\/p>\n

Goals for the week:<\/b>
Do not fall further behind on Nanowrimo Oops<\/i>
5 days of exercise Nope<\/i><\/p>\n

Friday night my parents arrived for a short visit. First time they’d seen this apartment so it’s good that the boxes have nearly all been taken care of. \ud83d\ude42 I’ll see them again next weekend but it was fun to show them where we live.<\/p>\n

They left mid-afternoon and I had a couple hours to spend with the laundry pile before the boyfriend arrived home from a day-long work thing. This meant I was not subjected to The Game until the very end. (Though I had the tv on (and muted) to keep an eye on things in case the city started on fire or something.)<\/p>\n

This morning we had breakfast with some of the boyfriend’s cousins (who were in town for the game).<\/p>\n

With any luck people will stop talking and writing about football now. We can hope. <\/p>\n

Writing Summary:<\/b> <\/p>\n

Current stats (last week)
Total words: 20028 (12555)
Behind by: 9972 (5778)
Average: 1113 (1141)
Rate needed to finish on time: 2498 (1971)<\/p>\n

Pretty clear I’m not going to make it.<\/p>\n

The book is in good shape. The plot has gotten nice and twisty, which doesn’t help me write any faster since I’m not quite sure what’s going on. So many politicians playing games with each other…<\/p>\n

<\/a>
Sunday:<\/b> 1023
Monday:<\/b> 1450
Tuesday:<\/b> 1830
Wednesday:<\/b> 1100
Thursday:<\/b> 530
Friday:<\/b> 940
Saturday:<\/b> 600<\/p>\n

Exercise Summary:<\/b><\/p>\n

<\/a>
Sunday:<\/b> none, driving
Monday:<\/b> walk, 50 min
Tuesday:<\/b> walk, 40 min
Wednesday:<\/b> ?
Thursday:<\/b> none, busy
Friday:<\/b> none, busy
Saturday:<\/b> walk, 1 hr<\/p>\n

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This week:
Exercise 2 days (I know, but the holiday messes things up)
Do not fall farther behind on Nanowrimo. \ud83d\ude42 Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}