Anne N. Mouse: Blog

I've set certain goals for the past week which I've either met entirely, or met a minimum goal, while just barely missing my hoped for larger goal. Of course now I've got a tale that's wandering worse than the interior of the minotaur's labyrinth... I've not moved the second chapter to yWriter because it keeps on sprawling, getting larger and larger. Which means that eventually I'll be wanting someone to proofread, and possibly edit. That is if I finish the story, rather than decide I've written myself into an inescapable corner.

I've been relistening to the presentation on YT presenting an overview of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's treatise on stupid people and another one on Dunning-Krueger. What I'm wondering is probably two things. First are Dunning-Krueger talking about the same phenomena as Bonhoeffer is describing, or are they talking about something entirely different? Second, if you trust Bonhoeffer how can you be certain you haven't become one of the stupid people?
Oh while (or before I was considering such weighty subjects I met both my short, and long goals wrt word count.

I'm still very frustrated with yWriter. It seems like it should be a really powerful tool, if I can figure out how to use it.
However, despite my frustrations with yWriter I do know how to use a basic WP, not that the open office WP can be really considered a basic WP. It's a quite powerful tool and I do use quite a few of it's features. Track changes allows me to note my daily progress among other things. It would also allow me to easily work with a proofreader or editor.
A good example is that today I know, because of track changes that I've already met and exceeded my daily goal for writing.

It seems like for the last week or so I've been meeting my minimum goal, which has been seven hundred words per week. I have a secondary goal, more a fond hope, though writing every day is getting me closer to it, that goal is fourteen hundred words per week. I'd like to bring my total word count for my new story up to that total, or find a good ending for it and place it here when I'm done with it. I'm not guessing how big it might end up being but any authors on the swarm cycle mailing list can see what I've dumped there and kibbits if they want to....

Okay, yWriter is free. That's a good thing. Because the only success I'm having with it so far is creating lists of characters and places, not that doing this is not helpful, but I'd hoped to get a chapter moved from my wp (I use open office [libre office version]) to yWriter to see if it would help me pick out any issues which I'm maybe missing with my wp.

Here's a question, is the mark of a truly good author their ability to write villains you want to strangle? If so, then I recommend Kenn Gannon's Runesward books. Kenn does a masterful job of creating main characters you want to t like (even when they're clueless) and truly awful villains.