Well, after a full afternoon of writing at a local coffee shop with other nanoers and a playwrite, I have only just barely reached my “necessary wordcount” for today. (50K/30 = ~1700 words per day)
I told myself I wouldn’t go surf the nanowrimo forums until I’d reached my wordcount. So now that I have, I’ve been incredibly unproductive. I’m the last one sitting in the coffee shop. Alone at a table that seats at least four comfortably (with laptops). A friend of mine who uses this place to check his email with some regularity just stopped by and pointed out that you can get a new version of my computer for far less than I paid for it. (And it’s a G4 rather than G3… among other enhancements… of course, I bought mine about three years ago.)
There has been a LOT of forum activity since nano began. I’m not even going to pretend to try and read it all. (Although I may actually try, I won’t pretend to try.) I’m one of those people who mostly just reads it tho, and hardly ever post. But I did just post a little bit ago about an “ideal” word processor.
I’ve always wanted a word processor that took over the entire screen of my laptop. That means no menus, no scroll bars, and no extra stuff. Basically just the text that I’m writing. Obviously, lots of keyboard shortcuts would be great.
This year I’ve decided to write my novel entirely in vim. I had to play with my .vimrc file a bit to get it to auto-format paragraphs and stuff, but I think I like the way it’s turned out. Unfortunately, it breaks my paragraphs up into multiple lines. I’m still not sure if I want to change it to not do that yet. The main reason for that is that almost all other text editors/word processors expect a paragraph to be all on one line, but since I’m just using vim, that shouldn’t matter until I’m ready to edit in another program (with spellcheck).
Copying and pasting out of the terminal (app in osx) is weird anyway, so I think I’ll just stick to this format for now. It’s one command to fix them, so I don’t think it’s that big a deal.
Oh yeah, and I voted today. *crosses fingers*
I’m going to vacate the coffee shop now. This is one of the only entries I’ve ever written from one, I think.