bartleby

not only am i having an i-would-prefer-not-to week, but i am trying to bust through it with new software, namely Scrivener, a nifty writing tool from literature and latte, a programmer who professes not to be a software company. it's mac only. (holy cow, have i really made the switch? i typed that "mac only" with an odd indifference, like of course this software i'm using doesn't run on windows. i don't think there's any getting around it, i'm a freaking mac user. but that is a subject for another post.)

so far, scrivener's turning out to be pretty cool. i've had the usual whoa, new software! issues (there's something about dragging links into a blank document that makes it impossible to write unlinked text in there--impossible for me, anyhow) but the workflow feels pretty solid. (oh, man, there's that mac-talk again.) you pull in notes from wherever and then do an index-card sort of thing in the "corkboard" and then go to town.

i've used scrivener for a couple of small projects--not scripts, brainstorming pitches for orange avenue/zest--so the real test comes now, when i pull notes and random bits of research for Sky in to see if i can't rework some major pieces of the project.

will report back in a few days.