Typing as Fast as I Can!

Progress Meter Courtesy of Writertopia

I spent (translate that to wasted) hours this morning working on a promotional video for the book. Using Apple's iMovie, one can, theoretically, come up with a video that's every bit as good as the one people are charging/paying hundreds of dollars for. The worm in the apple (pun intended) is that iMovie is a very idiosyncratic program. I had no idea how it worked when I started with it. It kept doing the very OPPOSITE of what I wanted it to do, and when I finally did get it to do what I wanted it to do, it then crashed, effectively eradicating an hour's worth of tweaks and corrections. And guess what? I apparently hadn't hit the save button within that prior hour. Silly me. Broke my own primary directive. Save. Save. Save. And since there doesn't seem to be any automatic save function in iMovie, folks like me must learn the very, very hard way.

Ah-hem.

So, in a fit of impatience, I uploaded an extraordinarily rough version of the video to YouTube. It will, in the harshest way, convey an idea of what I'd hoped to create -- and still intend to create. Unfortunately, it's not bad enough to make people laugh, just shake their heads in sorrow. See?



The good thing is that after all those frustrating hours of fighting with iMovie, it was an enormous relief to get back to Scrivener and resume writing on my NaNoWriMo project. I had so much pent up creativity in fact, that I actually crunched out 3,900+ words! Go on, girl! You got it going on!