While I downloaded the trial version of Scrivener (for Mac users), and although it does have some nice functions, I still couldn't see my way over the wall I'd written myself up to. I thought I'd take Lena Austin's advice and get a whiteboard and take a look at the B I G picture, but big whiteboards are expensive! (Yes, you can get cheap and nasty, but I have an addiction to expensive.)
So... desperate times call for desperate measures.
Hubby was not impressed... until I told him it was a whiteboard pen :)
Oh, and I did get the big picture. YAY!! Now on to getting that sequel written!
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*laughing* Oh, the things we do to break out of the box.
I'm seriously considering hanging a tape recorder off one of my bed posts. I swear I get some of my best ideas right before I go to sleep, but by them I'm too lazy (or comfortable) to get up and write them down.
Exactly, Amanda! I do some of my best plotting and scene-writing when I'm lying in bed, totally relaxed and free of distractions and on the verge of sleep. Wish there were thought recorders!
that's where my new mini laptop comes in handy. It's plugged in and sits on my bedside table, for reading ebooks in bed, or writing down those wonderful late nite inspirations.
It's a dream, really. I've only had it a short time, but I can't think how I lived without it.
Oh, and it can read out loud, if my DH asks...without having to scramble to print something out. *wink*
That looks kind of artistic, actually! LOL And hey whatever works! I was stuck one day because I wanted to write away from my desktop, but my laptop was out of commission. I was griping about this on the phone with my younger brother, who in all his wisdom said: well dummy, what did you used to do when were younger, before we had computers and laptops??? Or have you forgotten how to write, as in with pen and paper??? So I smacked myself in the head, then bugged one of my teenagers for a spare spiral notebook. LOL Now I've found that when I suffer writer's block, I can step away from the computer and break out the trusty old notebook and pen, then go sit out on the back porch in the rocking chair. Not my preferred method as I hate going back to retype what I wrote, but it gets me through the snags.
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