muladhara | (no subject)

Last night I downloaded the beta of Scrivener for Linux and I've spent today doing the tutorial on it and then starting a file for this story idea I've got. I haven't done much, yet, just inputted the research for names and ranks that I did, and written out a couple of character sheets.

I need to do some noodling about in a terminal to get it to work properly (like stopping it crashing when snapshotting and spellchecking correctly - though I think I've fixed that - and making an icon so I don't have to run it from the terminal every time). But the terminal scares me! So I don't know if I'll do that yet (I am such a wuss. Besides, I'm not writing the story on the computer yet, so I don't need that capacity at the moment).

I need some character writing exercises, I think, because one of the places where I fall down is characters (although admittedly, I am whipping some ideas and traits from fics and fandoms I've been wanting to fic so that makes it a little easier, although right now, I'm flailing and going argh because that's what I do). Also it would be nice for the main character to not come out like every other main character I've ever written. And she needs a name. It's hard to write about her without her having a name (it'd be easier if it were first person, but I am SO BORED of first person (I haven't written an original story in third person in YEARS), and I think it'd work better as third, to be honest).

(I have googled a bunch of links; whether any of it will be of any use remains to be seen).

Anyway, I kind of got off-point there. I don't know what to make of Scrivener right now. It seems like a really awesome tool, and I think the things that are in the program are amazing and woo zing yay etc. I guess it helps that the guy who built it was a writer to begin with - so he knew what he wanted in it (I assume he is now a writer who owns a software company ;) ). Hopefully it will all be shiny!

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AW CRAP DAYLIGHT SAVINGS STARTS TONIGHT AND I HAVE TO BE UP EARLY TOMORROW.

#my life so unfair

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Yay, Scrivener! I love it and it does 95% of what I want in a writing software, which is better than almost anything else I've tried. :) I hope you get much use out of it!

I was amazed by how much I didn't know I needed it until I did the tutorial, and spent a lot of it going, "wow, it does this? THAT'S SO COOL! (and exactly what I need!)"

I hope it sees a lot of use, too. I'd actually buy a copy for Windows, even though I'm using Linux, because honestly I would like to support the company because I like they do and think it's awesome.

It was the second piece of software I downloaded when I got my Mac laptop five years ago. (The first was Firefox.) Scriv 1.0 was not nearly as nice as 2.0 and I sort of wandered away from it in favour of Liquid Story Binder, which was the best of the Windows crop, but Scriv 2.0 is now my go-to and I really like it. (With the exception that I desperately wish it had a timelining feature and then my life would be complete.)

I'm on 1.6.1, I think, but I think that's just the Linux version number (I don't know for sure) - it's certainly not as bang up to date as the other two versions, anyway.

Oh yes, timelining would be the best (I remember you saying about that; and not that I timeline much, but I can appreciate how much of a useful tool it would be).