Some 1,200 more words on the space opera! Still below the official NaNoWriMo targets, but within the reasonably adjusted targets. :-D It was still mostly infodumps, but there was more dialogue now, yay!
I've been using Scrivener for years, but just lately it's started to act up, freezing all the time and needing to be force quit and restarted. I've no idea what's causing it, and I've tried restarting my laptop and so forth. Should start poking around the internet to see if other people have the same problem, maybe it has trouble with the latest MacOS update or something. I'm miffed, because I've just started NaNo, and my chaotic creative process likes Scrivener for the ease of writing things out of order and rearranging them as I like, and having my previous planning notes all in the same place as where I do the writing of the draft. Anyway, as an emergency measure, I started a Word document for my novel, and turned chapter numbers into properly formatted headers and made an index out of them in the beginning of the document, so that I'll be more easily able to navigate into individual scenes. But I prefer Scrivener. I've used it for nearly all my creative efforts on the computer for the past few years.
I also handwrite quite a bit, even more eagerly since I started using fountain pens and found I really liked the way they slide on the paper. Ball-point pens hurt my hand more quickly. Some felt-tip pens can also work, but it's hard to find ones that feel good in my hand and don't bleed through the paper. Anyway, I have sooooo many notebooks full of scribblings. I especially use them for all kinds of brainstorming and planning, for trying out scenes when I'm not yet focusedly working on writing a whole manuscript, for writing exercises and freewriting and descriptions, and my very occasional poetry efforts.
I'd love to try dictation some day, but am not convinced that there's yet good enough software for my language available.
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Date: 2020-11-03 08:48 am (UTC)I've been using Scrivener for years, but just lately it's started to act up, freezing all the time and needing to be force quit and restarted. I've no idea what's causing it, and I've tried restarting my laptop and so forth. Should start poking around the internet to see if other people have the same problem, maybe it has trouble with the latest MacOS update or something. I'm miffed, because I've just started NaNo, and my chaotic creative process likes Scrivener for the ease of writing things out of order and rearranging them as I like, and having my previous planning notes all in the same place as where I do the writing of the draft. Anyway, as an emergency measure, I started a Word document for my novel, and turned chapter numbers into properly formatted headers and made an index out of them in the beginning of the document, so that I'll be more easily able to navigate into individual scenes. But I prefer Scrivener. I've used it for nearly all my creative efforts on the computer for the past few years.
I also handwrite quite a bit, even more eagerly since I started using fountain pens and found I really liked the way they slide on the paper. Ball-point pens hurt my hand more quickly. Some felt-tip pens can also work, but it's hard to find ones that feel good in my hand and don't bleed through the paper. Anyway, I have sooooo many notebooks full of scribblings. I especially use them for all kinds of brainstorming and planning, for trying out scenes when I'm not yet focusedly working on writing a whole manuscript, for writing exercises and freewriting and descriptions, and my very occasional poetry efforts.
I'd love to try dictation some day, but am not convinced that there's yet good enough software for my language available.