Embracing my nerdgirl soul

I've started off my novel revisions by brainstorming about each of the main characters in my book. I've found WriteRoom very useful for this sort of thing; thanks to Ray for reminding me about this software! I just opened a WriteRoom doc for each character, one at a time, and wrote down everything I know about this character's motivations and background, from their perspective. Yes, I've taken notes about the characters before, but I found that doing this from scratch, free of other distractions, was an enlightening experience.

In the WriteRoom environment, you can control the colour of the text and background, but I like the default...it seemed very Matrix-ish to me, different from my usual word processing environment.

Jeff reminded me that this Friday marks the 40th anniversary of the original Star Trek series, when the first episode aired on September 8, 1966. Since I can't attend the official gala, I'm going to celebrate by watching all the episodes. Ok, maybe not all at once. But Jeff and I bought the DVDs for the entire three seasons and I've only been watching them sporadically.

To satisfy my nerdgirl soul, I've decided to watch them ALL in CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER. And I've decided to post my reports in a blog called He's Dead, Jim. Click on the title of any entry to read the full entry.

I have no idea how often I'll be watching them; I'm going to aim for one a week, but we'll see. I'll be posting updates in Blatherings, and you can always subscribe to the RSS feed if you want to know when the blog is updated.

I tried out a bit of my CSS skills by changing the graphics in the Wordpress theme for this blog, as well as increasing the font size for easier readability. Anyway, I know I'm not the only fan of the original series out there, so feel free to join me in embracing treknerdjoy over the next while.

:-)


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