Also, you can tell it's not gonna have a happy ending when the main guy's all bumpy.

Tara ,'First Date'


The Great Write Way, Act Three: Where's the gun?

A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.


Amy - Mar 13, 2018 4:20:23 pm PDT #6515 of 6681
Because books.

Part of me wants to try Scrivener and part of me worries I would just wind up playing with the bells and whistles and not actually writing.


Gudanov - Mar 13, 2018 4:28:01 pm PDT #6516 of 6681
Coding and Sleeping

There aren't really a lot of bells and whistles. It's like having a wiki and a word processor in one package. It makes me want to write my own software for writing, but, you know, that whole time thing.


-t - Mar 13, 2018 5:44:41 pm PDT #6517 of 6681
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Hm, I thought I had Scrivener but apparently not. Maybe I just have the OSX version. I do have an app called Bear that I haven't hardly used yet.


P.M. Marc - Mar 25, 2018 6:13:37 am PDT #6518 of 6681
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

If you have the Mac version, I think they give a discount for the Windows version. Also, 30 day trial.

100 words, yep. It makes me stop focusing on them being perfect, too.


erikaj - Apr 10, 2018 10:50:40 am PDT #6519 of 6681
Always Anti-fascist!

as much as I love when other writers put great clues in their stories, I hate thinking of them for mine.


-t - Apr 10, 2018 10:52:48 am PDT #6520 of 6681
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

That seems really hard. I have no idea how you even go about that! But, yes, love it when I read it.


erikaj - Apr 10, 2018 12:44:28 pm PDT #6521 of 6681
Always Anti-fascist!

So far I'm finding it challenging. Maybe I need to sit with it and just, like, watch Andy Griffith or something until some other part of my brain kicks in.


-t - Apr 10, 2018 12:47:55 pm PDT #6522 of 6681
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

That sounds pretty sensible, actually.


erikaj - Apr 18, 2018 1:15:52 pm PDT #6523 of 6681
Always Anti-fascist!

Well, not that I am successful, but I have found that I often don't get a good idea while actively on the hunt for it.


Amy - Apr 19, 2018 6:51:47 am PDT #6524 of 6681
Because books.

What's working for me right now is being at work, weirdly. In a lot of ways it's like being in the shower, or driving, which are other places I can let my mind go because I'm physically focused on one thing and can't be distracted by someone walking in or remembering I need to put the wash in the dryer, etc.

When I'm taking calls, I'm butt in chair, no chance to walk away till my break, and I don't have any other distractions -- no cell phones allowed, no internet, no reading, etc. So if the phone's not ringing, I can jot notes, and I outlined four chapters of a children's book that way. I just sort of set my background brain on "project" and let stuff float in and out and it's been working really well.