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bindings of the expansive mind ([personal profile] gwynedd) wrote2010-03-26 12:25 am

I am actually updating my journal! What the hell is this?!

A few things!

First, in light of my recent joining of [livejournal.com profile] summations (I AM INSANE), I've gone about trying to make my writing process easier. As I am hopelessly ADD and usually have 18 tabs and 5 IM windows open at any time, I went hunting for delicious software.

And oh did I find it.

Write Room is a beautiful piece of work. It's a word processor that strives to be 'distraction free', and it really truly is. When you boot it up, it covers your screen so you can see only two things; a custom-sized column of font, and black space. That's it. No blinking IM windows, no internet just behind you, no buttons and fonts and colors and sizes and formatting cluttering up your screen. Just text. I am, in fact, using WR to write this right now!

Bottom line - if you've ever had a problem concentrating on writing, or even just getting started, try this program. The 30-day trial is free. The full program is something like $25, but I'm already pretty sure I'll be buying it.

And Windows users need not despair: Dark Room is the exact same thing, but for you silly .exe types~

Next up, Pokemans! I've....not really been playing lately. Except I have! I've-- been playing Voltob Flip in Goldenrod ;; Goddamn logic-based games are my weakness. I'm trying to buy Ice Beam (Piloswine needs some ACTUAL ICE MOVES THAT DON'T SUCK before I get to Lance :|), and I'm half-way there. Voltorb Flip is nice, because it isn't gambling-based; you can't actually lose coins! Crai.

And for my last bit of business, I'm thinking about doing my writing for [livejournal.com profile] summations primarily in that ridiculous modern-verse thing I just posted. I've already got most of the setting planned out, and am sort of thinking about plot. Ugh, why do I do this to myselllllllf. AUs are giant time sinks that no one except the author cares about - don't do this at home, kiddies.

I WOULD APPRECIATE SPAM RE: ME ATTEMPTING TO WRITE SOMETHING WITH A HINT OF CONTINUITY OR LONGFIC.

[identity profile] darklightshades.livejournal.com 2010-03-26 05:00 am (UTC)(link)
THIS IS YOUR OFFICIAL SPAM MESSAGE

GET YURI BACK IN THAT KITCHEN AND MAKING SOME PIE

...OH, EXCEPT THAT'S NOT REALLY PLOT

UM

PERHAPS THERE CAN BE EVILDOERS BAKING PEOPLE INTO PIES

/BEAMS AT

[identity profile] minachi.livejournal.com 2010-03-26 05:01 am (UTC)(link)
WHAT

WHAT THE FUCK CY

ALKSJHALKJHA

REAL PLOT, PLEASE.

I am actually thinking about trying to work up to a Ragou proxy, because that would just be fun~

[identity profile] darklightshades.livejournal.com 2010-03-26 05:06 am (UTC)(link)
But you can't have...pies in the basement eating people. >:

/MIGHT BE CRAVING PIE, JUST SO YOU KNOW

OKAY UM

I DON'T KNOW, WHAT KIND OF SCHOOL IS THIS

YURI NEEDS ASSES TO KICK. HE DOES BEST WITH THOSE.

[identity profile] minachi.livejournal.com 2010-03-26 05:09 am (UTC)(link)
Actually

Actually

I have already thought of how to work the guilds in, as well as the guilds v. Knights/Cops.

Worry not, there will be violence and asskicking.

/SUDDENLY REMEMBER HOW SEXY THIS COULD BE

Also Judith is the super sexy drummer in Yuri's off-and-on band. She plays in spike heels and not much else.

[identity profile] thundersocks.livejournal.com 2010-03-26 05:28 am (UTC)(link)
you know you don't update you journal enough

when you don't even know how to spell update.

[identity profile] thundersocks.livejournal.com 2010-03-26 05:28 am (UTC)(link)
TOO MANY YOUS IN THAT SENTENCE

[identity profile] minachi.livejournal.com 2010-03-26 05:30 am (UTC)(link)
I have no idea what you're talking about

/STOICLY IGNORES

[identity profile] thundersocks.livejournal.com 2010-03-26 05:33 am (UTC)(link)
/sees

[identity profile] raspberrydrink.livejournal.com 2010-03-26 01:41 pm (UTC)(link)
You know, I've always had this weird AU idea of Flyyn, while starting out as a cop, by the end becoming some weird accidental politician.

[identity profile] minachi.livejournal.com 2010-03-26 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Vote Scifo for Mayor of New York City 8D?

[identity profile] aeris-dies.livejournal.com 2010-03-26 02:07 pm (UTC)(link)
holy shit writeroom is like the best thing ever
I'M CONCENTRATING LIKE THE MOTHERFUCKING FIST OF THE NORTH STAR, FUCK YEAH|

... and it kind of makes me feel like some sort of awesome hacker from the mid-90s. :(

[identity profile] minachi.livejournal.com 2010-03-26 05:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh my god I know. Did you just download it, or have you had it for a while?

I've written more in the three days since getting it than I had in like, months previously. I feel like screaming "I'M CURED."

It is wonderfully retro-looking, isn't it :D~?

[identity profile] aeris-dies.livejournal.com 2010-03-26 09:32 pm (UTC)(link)
i just downloaded it, actually! and i used it to write an essay i had been procrastinating like crazy.

yay, productivity! ♥