seattlekos

I’m just putting this one on hold. Ever since our December windstorm, various and sundry health problems keep cropping up. That, combined with the rain, has made it so I can’t or don’t want to ride my bike as much. I need to build back up to walking and bike riding (currrent problem: knee’s bunged up).

I know, excuses, excuses. And here I call myself a Seattle girl. But riding a bike in the rain really bites. I’m antsy for spring to be here. I bought all Zone-friendly foods (but the pizza I got yesterday didn’t help much). I’m TRYING, here, but my heart’s not as into it as before. I think a guy I was crushing on at my previous work place helped (even though that went nowhere).

Any way, I’m working on it. Working on a lot of stuff I don’t want to go into here. But it’s going to happen: I WILL reach that goal of 150 pounds.

I used to chastize my son and my nephew about typing, without learning to TOUCH type, but I’ve relented.

My main reason for relenting is when I realized I learned the number pad purely by rote, not being properly trained in it as I was stressing them to be in touch-typing.

I still think it’s the best way to go, but if you’re learning to type simply by practice, practice, practice, then I hope you achieve your goal in “typing fast.” Not sure what you consider fast, however. Most places I’ve seen, for employment, ask for at a minimum 35wpm.

Someone’s suggestion of opening Word, Wordpad, Notepad, whichever and simply practicing is good. Get some copy that’s easy to read, prop it up (to the left or right, whatever’s comfortable) and start typing.

Another fun thing to learn is how to compose at the keyboard. Think of a little story and start typing. Could be something you’ve always wanted to see in writing, but never got down to doing. A little scene from a favorite TV show may be a good start; it’s already got pre-made characters for you to have talking.

Good luck on this goal, it’s a worthy one!

I’ve got the first five lines done. Hand-written, no less.

One of my favorite authors, Orson Scott Card, has a writers workshop on his website, and he suggests only publishing, on the ‘net, the first thirteen lines.

He said, those are the first lines an editor or publisher will read, that’ll make or break whether he or she continues.

So I’m working on those all-important 13 lines. Those are usually just on the first page, in a traditional manuscript format.

UPDATE – Make that five CHAPTERS written. I was doing NaNoWriMo 2007 (google it) and cranked out 5 chapters before life crept up on me and I had to do other stuff.