Feb
6th
2014
So I Downloaded Writing Software With a Fullscreen Mode Today... · 9:53am Feb 6th, 2014
Literally more than a billion times more writing than I got done yesterday (which was none).
In other news, this is a brand new one shot I just pumped out all today. The idea's been floating around my head for a while though, and with a bit of refinement, I think it'll be a real treat.
My other swashbuckling romance one-shot grew into a 3 parter. It has lots of songs. Writing songs is hard.
Once these are all done I'll have 4 fics prefinished, and I think I'm beginning to feel a groove again. It's like I've finally hit the point where I can write as well as my standards demand without going incredibly slow.
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Song are tricky things. Part of why I love Ingram's work so much. Iambic pentameter is also sort of tricky; at least emulating the poetic, Old English feel of it.
This looks pretty useful, though I don't know if I need all those fancy-smanchy features. Just simple old MS Word has been good enough for now.
But that fullscreen anti-distraction mode looks nice. Perhaps I'll try it. Thank you.
It can make an achievement noise for arbitrary writing milestones.
This alone will essentially be how writers in the future handle minor motivation. Those of us raised as gamers and technology users know that if you can make something go beep, you want to just keep doing it again and again and again.
(I wish I weren't half serious in saying it.)
Honestly, it does look like it's got a lot of useful features, but if it didn't export to HTML, it'd all be for nought. I need to be able to dump into gdocs (which I can do by copypasting from HTML, IIRC), so that I can import from gdocs to Fimfic. This can be one more layer of abstraction, so I'm not thinking it's a bad thing, as long as the export process isn't too difficult.
Buuuuut I'm going to have to look at it tomorrow. I gotta get some sleep for now.
Love that shit, But I prefer Darkroom. utterly no-frills. Wonderful.
Also, BRAVO! WORDS!
This would be awesome, and good at keeping me from getting distracted.
Until I remember I have three monitors hooked up to this damn thing. *sigh*
My way of doing this is just to use Google Drive and press F11. But I write at like 2 words per day so that might not actually be that effective.
I've written several thousand words in the last week because of this post. It even has achievements. Thank you, and bravo!