Maybe. Probably. But it depends. On Guppies and SinC-I Chapter I've heard discussion of various software to help writers. I don't want one that forces me into a certain pattern. I want it open-ended enough to give me some structure and not annoy my Inner Editor. She really doesn't like to be annoyed and sometimes it takes whole days to shut her up!
Scrivener. It's a Mac only writing software. Which right there means these are not only serious people but they have a bit of dash and elan!
Designed by these lovely people in England who even talk about stopping periodically for tea. My kinda group, especially if tea means tea AND crumpets or a cookie or a biscuit. It's not just a cuppa, it's nourishment.
Anyway. Scrivener is a whole environment. It's my virtual binder with tabs for the writing, the research and the 'stuff' or whatever you want to name it. I'm using it on trial right now, you have 30 days to try it and that means either 30 days if you use it every day or 15 weeks if you use it two times a week so it really is thirty days. It makes index cards, but I haven't mastered those yet, and takes snapshots of your work so you don't have to keep saving different editions, and it outlines the work so you don't have to do that.
But what I like best, and I think this is because I've become a tad distracted as I've grown older, is there is this full screen feature. I mute the volume and I go to full screen. And when I type it's ALWAYS in the middle of the page--neat, huh? And there's nothing else. I can't hear the ding of incoming mail. I'm not tempted by the thought of a facebook update. I'm not curious as to who is twittering or tweeting what.
The biggest problem is that I want to stay there, in that blanked off world, undistracted by my own life, living Aaron Hartley's adventure, worried about the missing week, his brother, his mom and dad and trying to figure out why he's the one to save the world. And what it's going to cost him.
and now…back to full screen.
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