I am reading The Secind Mouse Gets the Cheese by Carolyn Schriber and one of the programs she recommends to writers is scrivener. I had never heard of it before so decided to take a look and see what I think of it. I downloaded and installed a thirty day trial of it last night and am reading the tutorial. They tell me it should take about two hours to go through it. Once I get backtomy computer I will dig into it and see what I think. My main concern is how well the spell checker works on it. As a creative speller I really need a good spell checker and even then sometimes the one in Microsoft word throws up its hands in dispare and gives up one me. Of course I will use my Dragon software which I hope will save me a lot of typing. Stay tuned for more information as I experiment with both of these tools.
So many ideas so little time
Having decided that I am going to write my book, I have found my head full of ideas. It is hard to get my head to settle down and let me work on just one idea at a time. I’ve found myself working on multiple ideas, basically just taking the time to write an idea down as it comes to me and hopping that when I get back to it, I will remember what I was thinking. Come on brain lets work together here and get one thing done before starting on the next.
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How to train your dragon
I have just gotten Dragon naturally Speaking 11.0 for my computer. I know that 11.5 is available but it was twice as much so I decided to save money and buy the older version. After I installed in on my computer it went on line to check for updates and proceeded to download and install 11.5. Glad I saved the money and got the older version.
I have gone through the training program and started to use it, though I am not using it right now as I don’t have the mic plugged in. But though there are things we fight about I love it. It is much faster and easier than using my keyboard. One problem I have found is that my computer is old and needs to be updated. Oh well I will just have to live with it.
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What’s in a name?
I am working on my first book which is in reality a series of books centered around one main Elf and a hand full of other characters. The main character is Ferguson (I know that is not a normal Elven name but that is explained in the story.) I had originally planned to call the series Ferguson and was starting book one centered around him, but as I looked more deeply at things, there was just too much unexplained in his story. So after much thought I decided to take a step back and write a preguel to the series. This book 0 puts everything in place for Ferguson to start his life’s mission.
Ferguson is an Elven Lord a member of the Elven Counsel. Each member of the counsel is also an Elven Lord the books deal with the counsel as well as the relationship between the Elven race and the other races that dwell on Kavilion. Though Ferguson is the central point throughout the overall story, he is not the main character in all of the books, so naming the series Ferguson is in someways misleading. My thoughts are to either name it Kavilion (after the world) or Elven Lords (which may also be misleading as the they play a major part of the story line, they are only a part of it.)
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Just the facts!
I have several book ideas in my mind, and I find myself bounching back and forth between them. With Furguson, a fantisy novel, I don’t need to worry about the facts as much, but on some of the others I find myself having to do a lot of research to insure that I have the facts.
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I love my iPad.
We’ll it has been a weeknightand the more I use it the more I love my iPad. There are some things that I still use my pc for but for the most part I am using my iPad most of the time. Asfor QuickOffice, so far I have been happy with it. It is limiteto what what it can do. Yet, it is working well for me so far. Once I am done with my draft I will need to move it into Word so I can clean it up. However, I am not happy with the autocorrect. I may need to turn the thing off.
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iPad and QuickOffice
I installed QuickOffice on my iPad and transferred over the files for my first novel. It is different than using Microsoft Word, though it shares the same file format so I can transfer the file back and forth between my iPad and my PC. One thing I noticed right off the bat is that it does not recognize Word’s page break so the start of each chapter does not start on a new page like I want it to. Lets see how things go and if this is a better way to write my story than just using the PC.
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Getting started on the site
I am just getting started on my site hope you all enjoy it. So far today I have added an about me page and a page introducing my first book. I have plans for seven books in the first series so be patent and give me time to work on them. The idea has been rolling around in my hear for more than a dozen years so it might take some time to get it all down the way I want it.
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Welcome to my world
Welcome everyone to my little corner of the world. As an inspiring author I will be using this page to track my progress through the literary world. If you have questions for me please feel free to e-mail me directly.
Thanks everyone for joining me in my adventure.
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