Yessterday I managed to catch up on my friends list reading, despite being more than a month behind. This is a non-trivial exercise, considering that LJ only lets me skip back 140 entries on my flist. It meant that I had to open each of my friended journal and feeds, find the last entry of their I had read, read each one forward until they appeared ( Read more... )

Things I Did About Writing In May

1. Started working with Scrivener.
2. Read two books (both re-reads).

And that's it. But I'm not particularly unhappy, because I do believe Scrivener is going to be a very useful tool, and because working with it has definitely been teaching me things about my own process and assumptions I had made about my

I'm still poking around with Scrivener, this time with a project that's still in the planning stages. I'm liking it more for a new project, though it's fine for the existing one. The ability to create "placeholders" for scenes I know need to happen but am not sure of the details for. I like that I can move the placeholders around, and color code ( Read more... )

I've finished the Scrivener Tutorial, which left me feeling pretty overwhelmed, but which I'm glad I worked through. I don't think I'd have figured out the things that would be most valuable to me without it. I'm too used to standard word processors like Word and TextEdit.

Anyway, I've imported Worlds Unspun into Scrivener and am working on ( Read more... )

I downloaded the trial version of Scrivener last night and I'm working my way through the tutorial. It's definitely a powerful program, and there are aspects of it that I know I'm going to like, but it will be interesting to see how it feels when I'm using it for my own project. I'm not sure that a digital corkboard will work for me; the tactile ( Read more... )

I keep forgetting to post this! Here it is at last. Not a great month, but not terrible either.

Things I Did About Writing in April1. Reorganized my notes file to be easier to navigate ( Read more... )

We're having a federal election here in Canada, and I walked by an advance polling station on Friday, so I went in and voted. The only ID I had on me was my driver's license, but that was enough, although it did make the process take a wee bit longer. Ahead of me in line was a woman with no ID at all, but her neighbour was there and formally ( Read more... )

I have given the current novel a working title! Henceforth, it shall be called Worlds UnspunI was worried it sounded awkward, but it suits the novel in my brain at the moment, and it's only a working title ( Read more... )

I was watching Burn Notice (Season 3, Episode 16...yes, I'm an entire season behind) the other day and it reminded me that one of the things I love, really love, in a character is competence.

I like characters to be good at what they do. They don't have to be--shouldn't be--good at everything, of course, but I like them to be very, very good at ( Read more... )

My personal trainer is planning to take 5 or 6 weeks off from training to do some short term summer work to build up his reserves. I've been pretty bad about getting to the gym lately, so I thought I ought to take a class to get me there at least once or twice a week ( Read more... )