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  1. A pantser - A discovery writer

    Part 3 - Getting back to writing after extended pause.

    As work too over my life for a few months and then the home improvement projects took over for few more months, my writing had to wait. In order to not begin planning and then being unable to write I had rules for myself, to keep my thoughts away from the story as much as possible and if I felt...
  2. A pantser - A discovery writer

    Part 2 - Discovery writing.

    As I was writing chapter 1, with the interaction between the guard (I now can not kill) and the princess, it was so much fun to write and the words just came by themselves. As I am moving the story ahead I am aware I am missing the bridge between chapter 1 and 2 but I do not let that bother me...
  3. A pantser - A discovery writer

    Part 1 - Now, what has worked for me? So far so good...

    Realizing and coming to terms with it, that I am a pantser or in other words discovery writer... I have tried and tried to plan my stories but every time I do that I lose the ability to write the story, I get stuck, I just can't seem to write anything. I know what is suppose to happen and I...
  4. A pantser - A discovery writer

    A pantser - A discovery writer

    Realizing and coming to terms with it, that I am a pantser or in other words discovery writer... Lets see how that goes... o_O Still trying to figure out how this portfolio thing works... :ROFLMAO:
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    Online & free writing tools

    Good news, everyone... :D Finally got a response from the one running the TrueNovelist site... "I am planning on keeping True Novelist running for now, but am not actively developing it. If I do decide to stop running the site I will open source the code to allow someone else to run it." I...
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    Online & free writing tools

    I am trying it out now... on google drive... So far so good... still much navigating needed to get to each file but that can maybe be fixed by opening a few Tabs in different folders in my browser so I can quickly get to the documents... hope this will lessen the distraction when I need to add...
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    Online & free writing tools

    HAHAHA... :hilarious: yeah... :sorry: I probably should do something like that... :shame: But it is so hard sometimes (all the time), the bright-and-shiny stuff is so new and fun and I want to play with it and... and... :woot: :wacky: But, yes, you are right, gotta start somewhere and just...
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    Online & free writing tools

    skip.knox, I think I might have to do what you are suggesting, use one file as the starting point and empty that file often... but it is so much work with my existing projects... :dead::banghead: I think I will pick one project to do that with and see how it feels, now that I am using much time...
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    How to Write Prophecy

    I sometimes use prophecies and I tend approach it much in the way skip.knox suggests here. Depending on how I want the prophecy to affect the story, I take the clear and ordinary version and I look at each word, do they need double meaning, be vague or should I use a word that can be...
  10. Gribba

    Online & free writing tools

    I have been using LibreOffice and google docs, but I end up having very long documents with the notes/ideas and stuff... that I circle back to when I get new ideas or have some changes I want to make to existing idea or feel the need to get reacquainted with some character or ideas or places or...
  11. Gribba

    Online & free writing tools

    I am not dissatisfied with truenovelist, but I am concerned, it has not been actively developed or supported since 2015. I have contacted them to ask if the project will keep running or is there a chance it will be discontinued, but there is no answer as of now. I guess I just want to be...
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    Online & free writing tools

    I should add that sometimes I write from work and my workplace is strict when it comes to what can be installed on the computers as we work with sensitive information (personal ID numbers and other personal info), one of the reasons I am searching for an online option. :whistle:
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    Online & free writing tools

    Scrivener was something I did consider but going to the website, I found, they do not have a Linux version. :( I know I am being so difficult, right now! :LOL: I have tried to install yWriter and it is not willing to work with my Linux system, it seems. :cautious: So far I have tried out these...
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    Online & free writing tools

    I do use google docs at the moment, and it is fine but I find the, having many documents open or scrolling through a long list of ideas, notes and info about characters is sometimes frustrating and distracting. I tend to come up with things for my story as I write and then I need to write that...
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    My conflict problem. - Can you help me, please?

    I don't know if this will help you, but when I run into similar problem I start asking, why? Why, to everything. The main character is running from the Norse gods. WHY? He/she is running because .... something. WHY? The Norse gods what to get their hands on my main character. WHY? My main...
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