New Computer & New Software

First some backstory.

I own a computer, a PC. It's a rather nice one that I build with a friend of mine a few years ago. It cost me about $1500 in parts, so it was probably a $3000 computer if I had bought it on the market. I had built it to play games on, such is the labor of youth (I've aged a lot in the last couple of years).

When first began trying to write a couple of years ago, my computer was in our bedroom, which was a good place to write. It was on one end of the house and far enough from the living room that I would not hear the television as long as the door was closed.

However, a few months ago we moved all of the gaming devices into the living room, the computer included. This put a damper on my writing. I can't write there. It's the center of the house with lots of traffic and of course the televisions (two of them!) are in there.

I started writing on my iPad together with a bluetooth keyboard. It was functional, but hardly ideal. In fact it was getting to be a pain in the ass.

I told you all of that to tell you this:

This week I ordered a MacBook Air laptop. I had to increase my credit limit on my Amazon credit card to buy it, but those are the kind of tough choices you have to make when you are chasing your dreams.

It arrived last night and I love it.

I got it set up and downloaded Scrivener, a writing program I have been looking forward to trying. It is amazing. I will definitely be writing about this program in the near future, so look forward to that.

I only got about 200 words written because it took a while to get everything organized and to get my work imported into the system, but I was expecting that. I had considered not writing at all, and had planned not to, but I knew in my heart that was a mistake. So I wrote.

I'm sitting at about 5200 words right now, averaging 584 per day. I think I squandered an opportunity last weekend that I will not repeat this weekend. I should be able to write 2000 words each day on the weekends, even if it takes me a few hours to plow through it, so that's what I'm going to do.

Also I started reading a couple of books from my 2018 reading list. I already owned the second book of the Prince of Amber series (I read the first a while ago), and I downloaded The Last Unicorn on Audible to listen to while at the gym. I am on my way!

I will try to update the blog this weekend, but we will see.