Funky Cat Studio

Current Mood: aggravated & angry & awake.gif

So earlier today I thought I had a program that would work to help me with my writing.  I have a lot of stuff that needs sorting out so I can really work on it all and icon everything out, etc.  I might have to find a solution other than a writing program.  Here’s a bit of overview of what I’ve tried:

yWriter4: Free.  Windows but works with WINE.  I love this program.  Its perfect.  loveitloveitloveit.  But its… not stable (on Ubuntu or otherwise).  And yWriter5 Beta won’t work on Ubuntu.

Writer’s Cafe 2: Commercial. Very neato program with lots of features.  Its an eye sore but it works perfectly on Ubuntu.  My problem is I keep over writing my scenes way too easily. >.< Not good at all.

BasKet: Free.  Works like a dream for Ubuntu ’cause its for Ubuntu.  Its more of an advanced note taking program.  Its pretty neat for various note taknig things (especially my online Witch School notes).  It will do my book/chapter/scene organizing.  Doesn’t have spellcheck >.<  I cean use a tag on each scene so I can keep track of what needs work, moving, etc.  I could live with this program in a pinch.

Power Writer:  Commercial. Eyesore.  clunky.  Not very usable…

StorYBook: Free.  ZOMG awesome program.  AWESOME I TELL YOU! I love it -but-… I can’t use it because it seems to be mainly for notes on a story/novel and thus where you would put a scene… they only allow so many characters.  GOD DAMNIT  >.<  And it works like a dream on Ubuntu because there’s an linux install for it >.<   Ok so maybe I can use it to help sort things out but I need the -whole- picture.  *sigh*

WriteItNow: Commercial, for Windows only.  I would consider letting M$ anally rape me again just so I can get some fucking work done on my novel writing >.<  I have never seen a better program (’sides yWriter).  I can get it to somewhat work under Gnome.  It works a lot better under KDE but still a little tweaky.  Useable though, I think.  It seems to be a graphics problem.  Nobody has said anything about it anywhere on the web it seems.  Triple se ligh >.<  And I think it costs, which is impossible for me right now.

I’ve seen some suggestions for using LaTeX but even more comments against using it because its more of a word processor.

So… arg.  I don’t know what to do.  Guess I could do a combo of Open Office (regular word processor), with BasKet and maybe StorYBook.

Orrrr I can figure out how to do all this on paper.  *twitch*

*ETA* I just spend way too long reorganizing a couple scenes in BasKet just because I twitched a bit and messed everything up.  Not good for twitchy people like me.  Found a similar but less fluffy program called gjots.  You have to tell it you want your notes to move up or down to tree.   *goes back to playing with it*

*ETA again* Okay gjots keeps crashing on me >.< I’m tempted to open a blog or something for this damn thing.

….. I … can’t… stop watching…

Current Mood: grumpy & horny & relieved & sleepy & sore

but anyway… its all thanks to wandering back and looking at some older scenes from the beginning to see how far all my characters have gotten (and because i was stuck in the story line and was procrastinating), finding a couple of “could be” sex scenes and started working on them.

i highly do not suggest working on 2 sex scene at the same time.

i’m going to go implode now.

Current Mood: embarassed

Wow my third post today! Guess I’m trying to catch up.

…
*mumbles*
I found that I have 3 Door Garage album by Hanson. I burned it off to my laptop as soon as I found it and was eager to listen to it to see if I still like it. I still love it.

No I don’t normally like boy bands. (they kinda died out after awhile, didn’t they?) And groups like Back Street Boys and such… never liked them. They sound pretty and they have very talented faces and voices but I don’t like the way their music sounds and I don’t like the shallowness of the lyrics and I especially don’t like how they were marketed to prepubescent little girls. But I better stop typing on that now before I go off on a tangent.

Hanson is different somehow. Their music (at least that one album) isn’t… sex. And they had such an innocence about them and I don’t care what anybody says, Mmmbop is a wonderful, wonderful song.

Meanwhile I’ve been eyeballing this Celine Dion album for a week in my almost-empty burn pile. I went through a Celine Dion phase when I was a teen and after I found out she doesn’t write her own music it just kinda bummed me out O.o I thought I had 2 or 3 of her albums but maybe not…

Current Mood: quiet

just free-form something that I may polish up later (I rarely do and prefer the rawness usually). it seems unfinished… as usual.

I would only dare to play your name like that
before collapsing into myself.
I wanted to blame anyone
But I knew it had to be you.

I keep finding your Origin coming
at me again, and again
Since before our story started
and the questions keeps arising:

Who has been preparing me
For these moments I crave
and linger on?

Why does this feel like
the movies and
does there have to be a fool
in the end and
…can we do it anyway?

If I could write my own answers
I would only give you options,
like multiple choice tests Teacher hand’s out
except any answer you circle will be right.