If my handwriting is occasionally messed up here it’s because I have a still-throbbing (albeit better) middle fingertip on my write – my right – hand where I sliced it yesterday while not being careful enough with the Mandoline. Why is it called a “Mandoline,” anyway? It doesn’t sound – only the user does when she clean slices bits of digits into the cole slaw.
It hurt a lot, and it bled like crazy. I’m counting on having “good healing flesh” (gutes Heilfleisch, in German). So, yesterday was not my day…
I set out to work on those five-year autobiography snippets, suggested somewhere by Julia Cameron. But when I opened Scrivener, the first project that popped up was my “novel” (why scarequotes?), and I felt compelled to read through all the bits I have there. It’s quite good in places, and too simple in others. I need to introduce some roughage, as it were.
I hate to say it, but something about the Scrivener interface really seems to “block” me. It’s too much. But why? I used to be able to work on it, no problem. Maybe it’s not Scrivener, but me.