I'm a web developer for NOVICA. I'm fascinated by languages, even though I only speak English and a little Spanish. I can count in Korean and have numerous language and linguistics books. I'm living within walking distance of CSUN where I share an apartment with my girlfriend and 2 cats. I'm happy. I write sporadically (I really need to finish that short story), with every intention of making a living at it at an undisclosed point in the future. I taught physics at Emperor's College Winter Term 2008. I love games and stories and music and computers and science and "and." I drink my coffee 100% black 80% of the time and 80% black 20% of the time. Also, there are other things. 7332 42
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Scrivener

Scrivener has been on my mind since Greg van Eekhout mentioned it. And even before that Tricia Sullivan had piqued my interest in such software, Story View in her case.

I downloaded Scrivener last night, and then wrote the following on Tricia Sullivan's blog:

I ran through the tutorial last night.

My fiction output hasn't ventured much beyond short stories yet, so it might be a while before it's larger organizational tools, but the simple things excite me. I absolutely love being able to "tag/keyword" various segments. I love it's simple "snapshot" versioning system. I love the ability to place images side by side with writing segments. I love how slick it's full screen mode is (custom paper width, "typewriter" functionality that keeps current text in the center of the screen, and custom alpha for the part of the screen not covered by the page.) Also you can set a word count target for each segment.

I'm a software developer, and I've toyed for years with the idea of using various development environments for prose generation, and Scrivener offers pretty much all the tools I'd want. This may be the tool that'll convince me to write something a little bit more ambitious.


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