When all you have to work on is an old laptop, one would think novel-writing becomes a lot more unpleasant. However, I’ve actually made some progress since making the switch. And there are a couple reasons for this.

First, I hooked up my wireless PC mouse to the laptop and suddenly it’s a lot easier to navigate. (I hate this laptop’s touch-pad because it’s awkward and inaccurate.) That’s helped a lot, especially with copy-and-paste operations when I blog.

But more to the point for novel-writing is the convenient fact that the laptop is too old and slow to do some of the things I like to use my desktop PC for, such as gaming, downloading/viewing favorite shows, and so forth. Without such distractions, hopping on the laptop is resulting – so far – in more focused writing time than my more-capable desktop PC did.

That’s worth a handful of loose diamonds to someone like me who, when stuck on where to take the narrative next, finds a bit of procrastination awfully tempting… but a whole lot less productive.