Nano - fix the damned site already!

[likethebeer]

I hit the "try again" button 3 times when it timed out on me. I know, I know: the head guy wrote:

This year we moved to a completely new back-end system, and it has made me beat my head against the wall almost every single day. Pages disappear. Parts fall off. Error screens everywhere. It handles high traffic the way a country lane would handle a freeway. We have so many plans on rebuilding the site it for next year it's not even funny. But for now, we have to work with what we've got. Russ is making all the improvements he can to make it suck less.

But man, if this was the first time you did this, you'd frickin hate it. I'm obviously not too pleased myself.

I should put the word count so far today up here, in that case:

10,546 [Later: I've been trying to check back, but hitting refresh has done nothing the last couple of hours. Ok. I'll deal.]

I've introduced the budgies (which are really just the cats in total, but what are they gonna do--sue me?) and have finally gotten the woman into the archives for the first time. On the one hand I'm like, "wtf am I doing w/all this goddamned exposition! There should be explosions by now!" Then I remember that 10,000 words is about 40 pages, which is plenty of time for exposition.

I'm obviously liking the writing a lot more this year, since I checked last year and by Nov. 6 I had just reached about 7,400 words.

Comments

[djymm.livejournal.com]

I had a chance to write about 70 words during my lunch break on Friday. There are also unwritten scenes I've got the framework of, a cameo based on an in-joke that coconuthead will enjoy, and the chapter title "Funk Bust Broken".

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

Funk Bust Broken on the token rust of the punk.

I can never write during my lunch breaks, as much as I try.

[djymm.livejournal.com]

I was thinking of having the chapter based on a broken bust of Dr. Funk, the discoverer of vitamins, but that wasn't until 1912! I thought it was sooner. I might have to make up a Dr. Funk just to use the title.

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

Either that, or Dr. Funk has to have a time machine. Could happen.

[djymm.livejournal.com]

well, I've already got a time machine sub-plot, so probably not.

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

Damn. You're one step ahead of me, and I've got nothing more for the moment.