WIP Challenge Check-in -- Day 16 (Thursday)

[linaewen]

Time for another check-in!  Is today going well so far with writerly pursuits?  If so -- or if not -- give us the details and we'll be pleased -- or sympathetic -- along with you.

 

Does your plan for the day involve any of the following?

 

--Writing

--Editing

--Send to beta

--Posting

--Procrastinating

--Planning/Researching

--Taking a break

--Something else I will describe in comments

 

Any word counts to report as yet?

 

For discussion -- We've had some great comments on whether people use pen/paper for writing or compose on their computer.  For computer work, what's your favorite word processor/online composing tool?  Why do you like it?  (I know some people have been sharing their writing tools already -- to my benefit, I might add! -- but I thought it might be nice to find out what else is out there for writing tools that we like to use.)

 

Comments

[msmcknittington]

More plotting and I wrote all of 10 words. Two whole sentences. But plotting actually takes quite a lot of brain power to do, so I am OK with this. I don't find characterization all that hard, but if I don't actually plan out what everybody is doing beforehand, then they just wander around being moody smartasses.

For writing programs, I use AbiWord (it's just a word processing program like Word) and sometimes Scrivener. I also use Storybook which is awesome for plot. AWESOME, I TELL YOU. It has color coding, so if you have a plot with multiple points of view, it's really easy to keep track of who knows what, when they know it and where they are.