So, Scrivener (the writing software) is on sale for half price.

[agilebrit]

At Amazon. My Writing Buddy told me about this a few weeks ago, but I balked at the $40 pricetag for something I wasn't sure I'd use. However, I've heard good things about it and know people who swear by it, so I dropped $20 on it today and will use it to write my Next Thing (whatever that is--I'm thinking the story for the Fearful Symmetries antho).

In other news, I've nearly cracked 3500 words in the Unicorn Time Travel story and am right at the midpoint. I'm going to madly scribble today and tomorrow while Boy is at rocket camp, and hopefully have an END at the bottom by the time I meet with my Writing Buddy on Sunday.

I just hope I can keep this thing crammed within 6000 words. At this point, I'm not sure. There's still a lot of Plot that needs to happen.

And, in the meantime, I still need six more outlines and one more story by the end of May.

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[highlander_ii]

I first picked up freebie versions of scrivener when someone recommended it for organizing one's fandom-related bingo cards - and it works out really well for that.

But lately, I've been co-writing this monster of a fanfic and it's in pieces, and scrivener has been super-awesome for putting those pieces in some kind of order that make chronological and plot-y sense.

I did NaNo one year and got a coupon code to get some $$ off - otherwise i'd still be dl'ing the trial version on repeat.

but yes - highly rec! =)

[werewolf-hacker.livejournal.com]

I'll need to poke the tutorial so I can see what-all it will do for me. But apparently the tutorial is 2 hours long, and I'm balking a little at that. Which is stupid, because it's not like I have anything better to do right now while I've got the new story percolating...

[highlander_ii]

haha - I... didn't look at the tutorial at all. I just started poking the thing. =)

it has notecards that you can write snippets or summaries on, then you 'expand' the notecard and can write the scenes and such in there... there's also a sort of 'timeline' view so you can see if your points/scenes are in the right order... which is v. cool!

And you can rearrange the notecards w/ drag-drop.

there's probably a LOT more you can do with it too - oh! and it 'concatenates' all your scenes into 1 file and will do various formats for you too.

I may peek at the tutorial one day... usually I just google around for what I need to do and find stuff that way. *g*