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[the_rck]

We actually got our Imperfect Foods box this week. Given that we didn't get a box last week, we weren't sure we would.

I've almost finished a draft of one of my lingering WIP. It's kind of skeletal in terms of sense of place and of anchoring sensory details, but it's more than 11000 words so far. I may edit for description, but I also may not. I think there are only about a dozen people who'll read this one because it's a crossover of two of my previous long series (the two Sky High series) and won't make any sense without those. It's a fairly self-indulgent thing but also fun for me to write.

I'm thinking that I might make a list of my WIP again and ask you all if any of the stories are of particular interest. I think that knowing that a specific person was interested in a specific story might help me finish it. Maybe I'll just stick with the stories that I think will be short(ish) standalones. I'd like to feel like I'm finishing things rather than starting and abandoning dozens more things.

Today will be a day for cooking, I think. Well, some cooking. We haven't finished last week's pot pie yet, so making more has to wait for the dish to be empty and clean. I can bake the squash today, though, and get Scott and Cordelia to chop up the other ingredients. I also want to change our sheets and run 2-3 loads of laundry.

I've been trying to read some of the fics and ebooks that I've previously downloaded for later reading. I've got nearly 600 things that I either haven't read or am not sure whether or not I've read. Some of them are relatively short while others really aren't. I made a bad indexing choice when I created my spreadsheet of ebooks, however, so I can't sort by length right now.

Basically, I appended 'words' or 'pages' to all entries in my length field so that I could distinguish what metric I was using. Ordering things by that field doesn't treat the numbers as numbers, so '197 words' indexes after '18444444 words.' (The fields are author, title, fandom (using Gutenberg as a fandom), length, series, read (y/n/?), and notes.)

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[evalerie]

If you are comfortable with e-mailing me a copy of the spreadsheet, I think I could fix it to be sortable by splitting the numbers from the words -- so for "197 words," "197" would go in one new column and "words" would go in another. Though it would still have numbers of words and numbers of pages mixed together, which is not what you are looking for. Though if you have an approximate number for how many words fit on a page, I could convert words into approximate numbers of pages, so that the units would be the same, which would make sorting more useful.

Anyway, if that would be useful, and if you are comfortable with it, I would be happy to try it.

[the_rck]

Thanks for the offer, but I figured it out. Three quarters of the unread stuff was books rather than fics. I don’t care about the length of those and stopped trying to track it early in the spreadsheet process. I just stripped out the ‘words’ part for the few unread and possibly unread stories.

I don’t think I’ll want to sort the already read stuff by word count any time soon. Maybe I’ll change a few a day or something. I don’t like the aesthetic of having one column right justified when everything else is left, though, because it’s harder to read, but I also don’t like numbers left justified or text right. Maybe if I insert a blank column between the length column and the next text column?

[evalerie]

Glad it worked out!