Write Every Day: Day 2

[the_siobhan]

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



Day 1 Tally:
china_shop, sylvanwitch, luzula, badly_knitted, trobadora, falkner, alexseanchai, silveradept, shadaras, sanguinity, thevetia, nafs, cornerofmadness, lferion, sakana17, alexcat, marvelouscity, saki101, yasaman, solo, auroracloud, phrenk, shopfront, brainwane, dreamwriteremmy, ysilme, iberiandoctor, firecat, carenejeans

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

Comments

[alexseanchai]

I'm a few hundred more words into "j'ai reve". fight choreography sucks as usual.

I draft in locked Dreamwidth posts, since that means I'm drafting in close enough to real HTML that it's handy for posting to AO3 (and for instantly spotting typos like <e/m> that I might not catch in a text editor, but that will ruin my whole day if I save the draft on AO3 like that, bc some such typos mean I have to remove tags from every single subsequent paragraph), and I can get at it from any wifi-connected device I have, and if I leave or edit a top-level comment I get a snapshot of the draft in my inbox.

[the_siobhan]

That's a really creative solution. I hadn't thought of that.

Congrats on words!