Boring Status Report · 4:32am Oct 19th, 2014
Things have been really slow here, so I thought I probably should post some kind of status report. I am actively working on two stories: Black Angel and The Golden Dawn. Black Angel will finish first, at which time I will pick up on A Very Minty Summer Sun Celebration once again. (It's still my favorite!) After those three stories are complete, then I'll reevaluate where I want to go next.
Although I haven't gotten anything written the last few weeks, I have been studying Scrivener and learning to use more of its features. I've been using Scrivener for a long time, but I never knew how large parts of it worked. I got me a book and finally figured out things like the outliner and snapshots, which should come in quite useful.
Learning to use the outliner revealed just how messed-up some of my outlines are. The Golden Dawn was a disaster zone, and I spent quite a bit of time today putting it in order. It's the most complex and chaotic story that I've tried to plot out, and I think Discord probably had a hand in it. It's sort of like doing a jigsaw puzzle, figuring out how all the pieces will fit together. I hope this tool will help me proceed with more confidence and maybe get more writing done in a timely way.
Pfft, this wasn't boring at all. Glad to hear you're making progress! Woo!
And what's Scrivener?
Scrivener is a word processor with a lot of features to help organize your writing. It lets you break your writing down into scenes (or "scrivenings") and then rearrange them, merge or split them, compare and revert them, attach notes and research material, export them in many useful formats, and so forth.
So, I guess you wern't really going to pick up A Very Minty Summer Sun Celebration? I'd still love to take it off mt dead or on hiatus list.
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It's just taking much longer than I expected, sadly. But I haven't given up.