Friday Check-in

[inkdust]

Hi everybody! It's been a while.

I'm putting off continuing my work for the moment because I'm stuck on one part of the last line of this scene & chapter (12, yay, halfway there!) that needs something to make the sentence feel complete. I have a gift for sitting on one piece of one line. So I figured I'd stare at something else for a minute and ask how all you fine people have been.

What's new? What's old that you want to be rid of? What's good, and what feels more like dragging a dead zebra behind a bicycle?


(No zebras were harmed in this mental interlude)

Comments

[siofrabunnies]

Good thing: I got Scrivener, and it's wonderful! So nice having all my research and notes in the same file as the writing, and being able to keep chapters in sub-documents. Much tidier, and less pre-work before getting back into a story.

Bad thing: Being organized is certainly helpful, but it didn't actually get me to write. I have less of a barrier, but this story just isn't coming together. I think I need to try writing scenes out of order, and fill in the brain-freezy ones later.

[inkdust]

Scrivener is the BEST. Sometimes I wish it could also do the actual writing part for me.

The first time I ever wrote scenes out of order was after I started using it and I was writing the first draft of my current story. I was trying to get out of a really stuck place from my last story so I just started on the scene that grabbed me the most and worked through it that way. Like they say about camping - always eat your best food first, that way you're always eating your best food. Doesn't work for everyone and I wasn't sure it would work for me, but now I'm going through chronologically with revisions and I have to say it got the job done.

[ljwrites]

Yay new Scrivener! *does Scrivener dance, whatever that looks like*

Haha, I remember my own disappointment that being organized to the hilt didn't get me any further along in the story. At least it removes one of the barriers, though.