musekicker

By so goddamn miracle, I finished my current WIP at roughly 38k words. I started this thing back in super late April, so this was roughly just over a month, which is insane. No wonder I burned out a few times there. I'll probably take the next week to focus on editing and plotting the next section since this now turned into a multi-installment series (whoops). My ultimate output is probably closer to 43k after including all of my cut scenes and false starts. The last chapter was like pulling teeth, and I've restarted it like, three different times before something stuck.

To celebrate, I got myself some ice cream from a corner store huhuhu

Probably once I'm done editing the last two chapters, I'll write up a "though process" and funny tidbits post. Doubt anyone besides one or two readers would be interested, but if nothing else, it'll be a fun little thing for myself.

Cool writing sites and programs I'd like to share:

Scrivener: My go-to writing program for long pieces. Back when I was just a beginning writer, I would have a folder littered with dozens of documents: documents dedicated to individual characters, chapters (yay, early days of fanfiction), and outlines. Now that is all kept in one neat little file. It opens fast and you can go down a rabbithole with all the different bells and whistles. What's also nice is that once you buy the license (so long as you stay in the same operating ecosystem; if you switch from Windows to Mac, you'll have to drop money to get a license), it's yours forever. I've had to reinstall this program on multiple different computers, and I've never had any issues with it.

yWriter: A freeware version of Scrivener I used back in college, though I think this predates it by a decade? I've linked to a program review site to give people a better idea of what it looks like. I haven't used it in a while, but for what it was, I really found it helpful.

LibreOffice | OpenOffice: Freeware word processors. I've used both, and they're both pretty good! IIRC, one is a fork of the other, which more or less means they share the same DNA. LibreOffice, from what I understand, updates a bit more often than OpenOffice. Either way, both are miles better than whatever bullshit Microsoft Word is pushing, and I'm unfortunately up-to-date with it thanks to my office job.

Written? Kitten!: A cute little in-browser writing app that rewards you with images of kittens for ever set number of words you write. 

4thewods: A cute writing-based RPG recommended to me by musekicker. I haven't yet explored it, but it kind of reminds me of an MMO version of a similar writing browser-based RPG I used to use.
 

Tip of My Tongue: A thesaurus with a more robust search system, including searches done by word particles, close rhyming, and phrasing.