From: A_Tina_Hall@kruemel.org   
      
   On 20.02.19, Capuchin   wrote:   
   > On 19 Feb 2019 "A. Tina Hall"  wrote:   
   >> On 19.02.19, Capuchin   wrote:   
      
   >> You have a weird computer, with it shutting down just like that. :)   
   >> Why does it do that?   
      
   > It's a program that keeps me from sitting at the computer more than   
   > two hours at a time or more than eight hours a day. It can be   
   > overridden, but it gets really quite annoying if you try to game it.   
      
   Ah, ok, that explains it.   
      
   > I got a new heart valve a little over ten years ago (manufacturing   
   > defect, but the original warranty expired (I blame my parent for   
   > being too cheap to buy the extended warranty when I was born)).   
      
   That's too serious a subject to assume (without knowing better) that   
   you're joking about manufacturing defect and mean you were born with a   
   heart that needed some tweaking a while ago, rather than them indeed   
   being cheap and not buying the better tweak after you were born...   
      
   > The usual replacement rate is every eight years. I'm doing what   
   > little things I can to try to string it out, and sitting at the   
   > computer for long periods has been identified as a big no-no.   
      
   Oh, wow. Is that the sitting around without any excercise?   
      
   >>> None. Sorry. If I know how to write well on command, I'd do it all   
   >>> the time myself, and I'd never, never, never tell anyone the   
   >>> secret!   
   >>   
   >> Rotfl. Right you are!   
   >>   
   >> (Don't forget the getting stinking rich bit that'll make that plan   
   >> profitable. :) )   
      
   > I want to be rich, of course, but perhaps just as important is the   
   > feeling that the time I spend writing is actually worth it. I   
   > recently erased everything done in the last couple of months on one   
   > story because I'd cobbled together a section to fill in where the   
   > words didn't flow, and it led things down a dead-end path. Avoidng   
   > situations like that is worth more than gold (well, at least little   
   > dabs and bits of gold).   
      
   I understand that.   
      
   I wonder whether it's not better though to write and then delete or at   
   least fix it throughoughly, or not write at all, worried it'll be no   
   good.   
      
   Good luck with more fluid writing coming soon! :)   
      
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