First Wednesday of the month and Insecure Writers' Support Group day. Also… der der… my birthday!
Me, having spent a long time carrying out other commitments (with a view to getting paid for them), I have started writing again. (Drum roll, please!). Whilst attending my the Flash Fiction Group last week, I wrote a 75 word story to a prompt and it got itself published on Paragraph Planet. Am I proud or what?
The July question is about our favourite writing processing tools - Word, Scrivener or others? I am a Word person - too lazy and too skint to try anything else, although I'm told Scrivener is good. (Many years ago, I won a half-price version of Scrivener by completing NanoWriMo, but I didn't manage to claim it and use it before the offer ran out.). Scrivener is ideal for Nano because it counts your total word count as you go along, but, if you want to submit your writing elsewhere, your piece generally needs to be in Word, so I imagine that Scrivener users do a lot of converting between formats.
I have also written bits of stories in Notes on my iPad and my iPhone, as needed, in emergencies, even written them by hand on lined paper. Any application in a storm!
I'm doing a lot of reading at the moment and learning a lot about how contemporary authors are structuring storylines and showing us characters. I have to say some of the books I'm tackling, I don't enjoy. Why is there so much misery written these days? On the other hand, perhaps we should consider why Alexander McCall Smith, whose works are always upbeat, sells so many books.
Looking forward to what other IWSGers have to to say, as always.
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