IdahoRose wrote:
I did indeed find a way to write that caters to the way my mind works (particularly my OCD) - I just make sure every chapter is exactly 100 words. No more, no less. Using this method I have had a very productive night - I wrote 500 words total. I want to be especially ambitious and write a 50,000 word novel like this, but I know that stories have a way of telling you when they're finished, so I don't mind if it wraps up before the big 50,000 milestone (which, in all likelihood, it probably will.)
Very cool.

Interesting. If I try to write a 100-word story, or episode in a story, it’ll come out more like an essay though.
Edna3362 wrote:
DataB4 wrote:
Meeting rooms are often cold, that sucks. How did you feel about the rest of it, the format you describe here?
I'm not the only one complaining about the cold. Those who are on the same table as me, too, do feel the same.
Except I went and drank something warm and worn a jacket before they complained…
Oh, I meant, how did you feel about the format of the seminar as you described it? The fact that it was all verbal, few visual aids except for sign language interpreters?
Edna3362 wrote:
DataB4 wrote:
How did your other roommates react? Crying? Falling asleep in class and on the ride home?
Tired like getting tired from travelling more likely.
But not exhausted or falling asleep or confused no... If so, then I've already been exhausted hours before they get tired.
Crying? Well, probably. Mostly during participation though. Justified that it's about peer counseling -- we practiced counseling. Therefore someone is bound to say something emotionally weighty...
But not all the way back home.
Since it was peer counseling, then maybe some tears were part of the deal, although I bet being tired might have made people more emotional than they otherwise would have been also.
You mean nobody fell asleep during the seminars, or even on the way home? They really weren’t exhausted? If so, I don’t understand how some people get so wired for an entire two-day conference on so little sleep.

I’ve seen it, and I have no idea where they get the energy.
Edna3362 wrote:
Heck, there's this newbie guy who's mostly with me throughout before, during, and after the event
(except when sleeping. Poor guy whose roommates are mute and deaf, and he doesn't know sign language
he got crazy at silence so bad, he went to my room and bug my roommates until midnight. And several occasions when he bugs someone else and I bug someone else).Oh wow, that’s ironic, putting the guy who can’t stand silence in the room with deaf and mute people.
Edna3362 wrote:
He got curious about aspies though.
I always emphasized at the diversity part first before my own case by disclaiming it as my own translation and based on my own experience or knowledge alone than the whole fact or truth.
Always a good idea.

Edna3362 wrote:
I stayed at this work place for too long.

It's too slow.
And I already had thoughts of going back to school or moving away. I found enough connections for that, and had long laid-out those offers to me for years now. It's time that I'll take one of those offers.
Good for you!

That's awful about your boss not understanding though. Better luck in your new endeavors. I hope there's some chance you won't have to suffer another few days as you're predicting also.