#WritingMonth check-in.
How is everyone doing?
I wrote a short prologue for my novel tonight. I have had this scene involving soda in my mind for a long time. After a bit of research, I found I can legally refer to Mountain Dew in the context of this vignette.
@amin @bbbhltz @rl_dane @adhemara @orbitalmartian @roguefoam
@nantucketlit @bbbhltz @rl_dane @adhemara @orbitalmartian @roguefoam
I'm just trying to survive my last month of school. Writing is not happening for me. 🫠
I'm behind on journaling, but trying to #KeepBuggeringOn
I gave myself a very realistic goal this year (4 blog posts) so I think I'm on schedule.
@nantucketlit @amin @bbbhltz @rl_dane @adhemara @roguefoam I've written a grand total of 71 words of my 10,000 word goal.
I need to sit down and write some more.
@orbitalmartian @nantucketlit @amin @bbbhltz @adhemara @roguefoam
PROGRESSSSS!!! XD
@rl_dane @nantucketlit @amin @bbbhltz @adhemara @roguefoam Any progress is good progress, I really need to sit down and spend some time writing.
Maybe I need to add a WritingMonth mode to my text editor (which is funnily enough what's been taking my attention from writing).
@orbitalmartian @nantucketlit @amin @bbbhltz @adhemara @roguefoam
Which editor, and what would the mode do? :)
@nantucketlit @rl_dane @orbitalmartian @bbbhltz @adhemara @roguefoam
Haven't tried it yet but I assume it's just running "python main.py" at this point, or something like that. There may be dependencies needed, I dunno.
A good long term goal for Orbital may be to use something like hatch to manage dependencies, building the package, etc. I've been moving most of my Python projects to it, including a bunch of Clew's stuff, and plan to move Writing Month to use it.
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python main.py. I need to commit a quick change because I forgot that I changed a filename so it's trying to pull an old one through.@orbitalmartian @amin @nantucketlit @rl_dane @bbbhltz @adhemara @roguefoam
if you don't like that you have to manually call it with python, you could add a #! on the first line like
$ ./apollo
Hallo
$ cat apollo
#!/bin/env python
print("Hallo")
@kabel42 @orbitalmartian @nantucketlit @rl_dane @bbbhltz @adhemara @roguefoam
I think I've seen /usr/bin/env more often than /bin/env but they both appear to work on my system.
kabel42
mirabilosenv is canonically in /usr/bin and you must use that pathname if you use it for pth searches in shebangs and the likes#!/bin/env python3 is actually worse than #!/usr/bin/python3 as the latter works on more systems. (#!/usr/bin/env python3 is preferrable, of course.)@mirabilos @bbbhltz @nantucketlit @kabel42 @amin @orbitalmartian @roguefoam
I know /sbin was typically for statically-compiled binaries (although this is not always the case anymore, even on OpenBSD, IIRC) vs /bin, and of course /usr/local/bin is for Ports on BSD or user-installed packages on Linux (lol sigh), but what was the distinction between /bin and /usr/bin?
man hier on Debian says that /bin is for binaries needed for single-user mode, although debian now just symlinks /bin to /usr/bin XD
@mirabilos @orbitalmartian @roguefoam @amin @nantucketlit @kabel42 @bbbhltz
Counting down the days before he starts insisting we call it systemd/Linux.
Who the heck voted for this guy?!? XD
@kabel42 That's cool, I didn't know you could do that.
@amin @nantucketlit @rl_dane @bbbhltz @adhemara @roguefoam
A good long term goal for Orbital may be to use something like hatch to manage dependencies, building the package, etc.
I'll have to have a look at that. :)
@orbitalmartian @nantucketlit @rl_dane @bbbhltz @adhemara @roguefoam
Sure, and I can probably help out with that if you remind me over the weekend. I've done a few hatch setups before and it's pretty straightforward once you've got it figured out.
@orbitalmartian @rl_dane @nantucketlit @bbbhltz @adhemara @roguefoam
Lemme know if you want any advice, speaking as someone who coded a novel editor for use during NaNoWriMo (which I later abandoned, but).
@nantucketlit last week was nightmarish as I had several appointments (I was free only on Monday). I took the weekend to recover, so not much writing for me since last days, but I'm okay with this, I'm working since 2020 on this novel, even just a few pages per year is better than nothing 
for now I have 9 pages, which is better than the two last years, so here's that.
@amin @bbbhltz @rl_dane @orbitalmartian @roguefoam all my encouragement to continue! 
@nantucketlit
I'm having up and downs and I wrote on seven of the eleven days so far.
On the downside I'm almost done with my current long scene and don't really know where I'm gonna go frome there.
On the plus side I was very prolific the last three times I wrote, I did more than a thousand words each time while my goal is 500 per day
I'm wishing everyone in this thread courage and fun for the rest of the month !
@amin @bbbhltz @rl_dane @adhemara @orbitalmartian @roguefoam
@solun @nantucketlit @amin @bbbhltz @adhemara @orbitalmartian @roguefoam
I had some decent consistency at the beginning of the month, but it's not going so great now.
But I'm hoping to stop and have time to do some decent journaling today.
I actually journaled a lot on Saturday, but it was on the computer, so it doesn't count towards my #WritingMonth goal. :P
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