I... been writin' on my no-vel, all the live-long day...

[eurydicebound]

Well, not really. But I have been working on it. I'm not technically doing NaNoWriMo, because... well, because I don't give a crap whether or not I hit 50K and I'm not about to start in with another project when I've got a perfectly good one waiting for me to get off my ass and work on it. Also, I've spent years honing a perfectly good inner editor, including working on my on and off switches. I don't think this would help.

So I purchased a license for Scrivener, as I was realising that NeoOffice was so annoying that I was avoiding writing just so that it wouldn't load up. I've imported my work into it and I'm putting in the info for the outline and building the structure and putting in notes and all that really good stuff. I haven't added noticably to the actual word count yet, but I'm into the book again in ways that I simply haven't been for ages. It's good. I've even been rereading my research materials. Go me.

Tomorrow I start back in with the writing proper, as I don't have any errands or anything in particular to take me away from the house and distract me. Wish me well. :)

Comments

[thatcash.livejournal.com]

Also, I've spent years honing a perfectly good inner editor

You've had an editor locked in your basement all these years?

[bruceb.livejournal.com]

I'd very much like to hear your thoughts as you go about working with Scrivener, as part of my ongoing interest in writting toolz so that I can be gooder and gooder.

[oldmangrumpus.livejournal.com]

I'm equally interested to hear your problems with Neo-Office since it looks like a godsend in my class to us Mac users for the Database module. Though it does load clunky.....

[anaka.livejournal.com]

It's the "load clunky" part. I'm on a G4 800 MHz Power PC with 768 MB of SDRAM running Tiger (I don't think I'll be upgrading to Leopard on this system). Neo-Office lags my computer like nothing else, primarily because it seems to load the entire office suite at once. All I want to use is Writer, but it seems to get everything ready at the same time. Also, if I have anything else going on (like web browsing, iTunes, chat, whatever) it slows to a crawl on my machine. And the auto save feature (which I never found a way to turn off) also reduces me to doing nothing but saving, interrupting my workflow every 10 minutes or so while I wait for it to finish. Because I wasn't able to find a way for it to do just what I need and not the rest on my older system, it just wasn't useful enough for me.

I have hopes of buying Pages once I'm flush again. That program is sweet.