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

[the_siobhan]

Oh yes, I use libreoffice at home. (And word at work, which makes me stumble occasionally.)

That is an excellent wordcount and also an excellent form of research. I would offer my services as a consult, but I think my experiences of childbirth and pregnancy were pretty unusual.

My condolences about the socks. Every drawer in my house has cedar balls in it because we are plagued with the things. And they will eat non-wool organic fibres if they can't get wool, as we found out when we discovered a nest of the things in a pile of cat-hair that had collected under a bed.