Anne N. Mouse: Blog

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.

I'm terrible at it! I started poking at using yWriter today. I've probably put together two or three hundred words of notes on my current project, and I'm uncertain whether or not I've made any progress on organizing the story. I do hope that at least a list of characters names will help.
Sometimes I feel like all of the work involved in making lists of people and places doesn't further the story at all. Still I know I don't want to be using the same name for ten people!

If you're an explosives buff, a couple days ago caltrans did a boulder removal up near Tahoe. There's only a few seconds of video, but hey it's a pretty good boom!
The reason for that is the winter storms we are having our here...