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Libby posted an update in the group
December SloMo 7 years, 4 months ago I’ve changed my profile pic to something less bot-like. These are the leaves of a whitebeam, one of my favourite trees. I was thinking of growth, hope, aspiration. You know, general upwardsness. Fingers crossed.
The past few days have been very slowmo/slowgo. Max of 1,000 words a day editing by hand when really I should accomplish 2,000 or at least include the typing up of those edits.
On the plus side I’ve much enjoyed reading @Daedalus biog of test pilot Duncan Menzies, ‘Flying to the Edge’. It’s interesting and well written (of course), hitting what I now recognise as the Daeds balance between background explanation and all-important detail. Also, Menzies was clearly an appealing person as well as talented and courageous. With some of these guys you can get the last two characteristics but not the first 🙂
Well done, Daeds.
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Thanks Libby, really glad you enjoyed it! I’m pleased Menzies’ personal characteristics come through.
They certainly do. He looks pleasant in the photos. Incidentally I did wonder whether he’d broken his nose at some point!
I’m interested in the Ringway story too as I grew up near there but don’t know much about Ringway’s early history.
Don’t be too hard on yourself about the word count. For me, getting the words right is far more important, and the added stress of targets is a distraction from that. Anyway, this is SloMo, right?
Yes, Daeds has a real talent for explaining tech stuff lucidly to the lay reader.
Thanks @richardb. I agree with you. I’m not normally a word-count watcher. I was just feeling a bit bogged down so counted up to see if I’d achieved anything at all!
Well done on moving forward with the editing, @libby. Each word edited, is a word closer to the end! (My midwife told me that about contractions, and I decided it made a good life mantra!!!)
Also – my neighbours have a big whitebeam over hanging out garden. When the leaves are first coming out in spring, that silvery white is just so lovely! (Less appealing this time of year when my pond becomes one big leaf soup!)
Yes, and the leaves drop early so you’re stuck with them quite a long time @raine 🙁
Agree that contractions are good mantra for a lot of things!
I think we should all cheer on ANY forward motion, painful and incremental included, especially at this time of year! And 1000 a day is high energy by my current standards, so well done @libby. And I too love your leaf pic.
PS I also agree that the @daedalus signature style is a particular talent for making the (what I would find by default) boring, fascinating.