Chocolate. WiP. Scrivener.
Oct. 26th, 2010 02:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mmerriamBack from a short vacation in the land of chocolate—aka Hershey, PA— where we learned that the secret to making Hershey Chocolate is apparently singing cows. Saw the Hershey Museum and Chocolate World. Pennsylvania is very pretty at this time of year, all fall colors and cool days.
Now that I'm home, despite the head cold, I am ready to get to work on something— anything—new. I'm starting to get that twitchy feeling that overcomes me when I'm not writing. I still haven't received the first round of edits from Carina Press for Last Car to Annwn Station and I'm not quite ready to hit the second draft of the Steampunk Mystery Spy-Thriller novella, so I'm considering what to work on in the meantime. I'm a big believer in having a project or three going at all times. On to the next thing, I say.
I have the opening of a handful of short stories, all of which I intend to write at some point and none of which I'm ready to tackle for one reason or another. I could get going on another novel, but the ones that want writing are both sequels to the Monster-Hunting Barista novel, and I'm a little leery of writing a sequel to a novel I haven't sold yet, though I'm more inclined to go that route now that I've at least proven to myself that I can sell a novel.
I guess I can open all my works-in-progress and poke at them until one takes flight.
Question: I see that Scrivener has a beta-version for Windows now. Those of you who have used Scrivener, what are your thoughts? Is it something useful to you as a writer? Why? What do you think are its strengths and weaknesses?
Now that I'm home, despite the head cold, I am ready to get to work on something— anything—new. I'm starting to get that twitchy feeling that overcomes me when I'm not writing. I still haven't received the first round of edits from Carina Press for Last Car to Annwn Station and I'm not quite ready to hit the second draft of the Steampunk Mystery Spy-Thriller novella, so I'm considering what to work on in the meantime. I'm a big believer in having a project or three going at all times. On to the next thing, I say.
I have the opening of a handful of short stories, all of which I intend to write at some point and none of which I'm ready to tackle for one reason or another. I could get going on another novel, but the ones that want writing are both sequels to the Monster-Hunting Barista novel, and I'm a little leery of writing a sequel to a novel I haven't sold yet, though I'm more inclined to go that route now that I've at least proven to myself that I can sell a novel.
I guess I can open all my works-in-progress and poke at them until one takes flight.
Question: I see that Scrivener has a beta-version for Windows now. Those of you who have used Scrivener, what are your thoughts? Is it something useful to you as a writer? Why? What do you think are its strengths and weaknesses?
