Write Every Day: Day 2

I'm working overtime tonight so I'm not sure how much work I'll get done today. Doesn't help that my office is freezing right now. (It snowed last night and it's about 2 C outside right now. By Friday it's supposed to go back up to almost 20 C. Go home November, you're drunk.)

I do all my actual writing in Scrivener. (Which I love.) I started doing my research notes in there as well, but I found the flipping back and forth between notes and story was mucking up my concentration, so now I have the story open on my laptop while I take notes on loose-leaf paper that I can move around and add to at will. And then I had a couple of those "ooo, I know what I can do with that scene" moments when I was doing something else that I scribbled down on coloured post-its and stuck to my paper notes.

By the time I'm done this project I fully expect it to look like this:



So today's question is how you do your actual writing? Do you write long hand, do you use word, or some other dedicated app? Do you use dictation software? (I've always wanted to try dictation, especially now that I have a private workspace.)



Day 2 Tally:
china_shop, shadaras, falkner, luzula, badly_knitted, alexseanchai, trobadora, saki101, sylvanwitch, brainwane, thevetia, lferion, cornerofmadness, nafs, sakana17, yasaman, solo, phrenk, auroracloud, ysilme, sanguinity, silveradept, alexcat, iberiandoctor, firecat, carenejeans


( previous tallies )

Let me know if I've missed your name. And participation is always open, so feel free to drop in any time.

NaDruWriNi 2020: November 7 2020

You know, I signed up for this Write Every Day host gig thinking it would be good timing because of vacation at the end of the month. I completely forgot about NaNoWriMo and NaDruWriNi and if I hadn't I might have changed my mind - acting like a fool is one thing in front of people who know me, it's a little daunting in front of an entirely new audience.

But hey, the risk of falling flat on my face in public has certainly never stopped me doing anything ill-advised so far, so why start now?





So for those who are unfamiliar with it, NaDruWriNi is National Drunk Writing Night. Back in 2005 somebody came up with the idea of having a marathon writing-while-drinking session on the first Saturday of of NaNoWriMo. Maybe it was a way of getting past the first-blank-page brain freeze of starting a new project, maybe they were just tired of hearing people talking about their novels and wanted to be a dork about it. The answer is lost to the shadows of time.

Anyway I heard about it shortly after the second annual and I've been doing it every year since.

The rules as copied from the original source are here. I have a couple of add-ons.

If you don't drink, that doesn't mean you can't participate. I would suggest though, that you do something to shake up your regular practice. In the past I have done this gathered around somebody's kitchen table, in a bar, in a cottage (where I basically just rewrote the plot of Evil Dead featuring my co-cottagers) and once while eating pizza along with a group of friends who had just finished helping me sledgehammer a wall in my house. (They read along and made comments the whole time.)

Everybody is invited to play along. If you bothered by mention of alcohol or drinking, I will be putting everything behind a cut and will tag everything with NaDruWriNi so it will be easy to skip those posts.