Blog – Page 79 – Elspeth Cooper

So I’ve started on Book 2 of “The Wild Hunt Trilogy”, “Trinity Moon”. I confess, I’ve cheated a bit – there was a sub-plot in Book 1 that I was deeply attached to but it wasn’t deeply attached to the rest of the opening story arcs and just didn’t fit, timeline-wise. So I cut it out, all 40-odd k of it, earlier this year and realised that it should have been in Book 2 all along, and I’d been trying to cover too much ground in Book 1.

It needs an edit, since it hasn’t had the same amount of attention that Songs has, which is what I’m doing now, and the excitement has started to build. I’m getting that little wobbly buzz under my breastbone again, and I’m absolutely dying to get through the edit and start turning the plan into some real new chapters.

Oh, didn’t I mention? I’ve actually got a plan for “Trinity”. Me, the walking definition of a pantser, has A Plan. I’ll have a synopsis next, just you wait.

So I sat down at the keyboard, determined to add a meaningful blog entry, and came up empty. Some writer I am.

The new laser printer is great and working hard for its keep. It’s also too clever by half. I wanted to print some address labels but wasn’t sure I had the template filled out the right way round to fit the half-used sheet so I thought I’d print them onto plain paper first.

Uh-uh. Printer says no, and flashes a little red light at me. Open cover, close cover. Green light. Click “Print”. Red light flashes.

Out with the manual, section six, troubleshooting. Third reason for the error light flashing: no media in the manual feed. Eh? Are you telling me the printer knows the document I’m sending uses an Avery label template and has therefore assumed I’m going to be feeding said labels through the manual feed slot?

<fx: inserts sheet of labels in manual feed slot>

<whirr>

Apparently so. Well I’ll be buggered.