Tuesday 4 February 2014

Day Thirty Five - Work smarter, not harder... Required 96250, Achieved 95425

Last few weeks, I've been doing all the sums manually on the wordcounts, not thinking too much about the enormity of what I'm trying to do, which means that at the end of every day, I've been pulling out the calculator and adding everything up individually...

Moron...

We live in an age of computers, why not just make a spreadsheet to keep track of these things and save yourself ten minutes of adding up every day...

Which led me to thinking about the use of computers every day in writing, it's far easier to use a word processing program than a typewriter and lord knows, the variety of tools at our disposal are far more now than they ever were twenty, thirty years ago.  Which leads to the question...

Does not having to work as hard make us more creative?

Discuss?

Few more chapters of the Shift for today, more WWW to follow tomorrow and a possibility of something a little shorter I've been giving some thought...

Hopeful to break 100k tomorrow, but it's a busy day

This is John Dodd in the Socialist Republic of South Yorkshire, and Goodnight England, Wherever you are...