I've launched my anti-procrastination project this summer, and have just this afternoon made a major discovery: Scrivener has a progress bar! (source: Wine on the Keyboard)
This isn't a great photo of it, meaning you may not be able to see, from this image, how reinforcing this thing is.
I'm trying to get a revision of my book proposal started, which means I'm in Writer Hell, so I set 500 words as my "Session target" (a reasonable goal) which meant that I could see progress at once.
The reason I haven't posted a Screen Grab of my own highly reinforcing "Project Target" icon is that it disappears the minute I open Screen Grab.
Also in the category of riveting computer problems: I can't log onto flickr anymore, although I can still upload photos from my Desktop for some unknown reason.
These are the kinds of distractions the "Project Targets" progress bar was designed to defeat.
I love Scrivener. Love it, love it, love it. I wrote all of Temple's (2nd) book on it, and I have everything in ONE Scrivener Project: all the drafts, all the research, all the interviews --- plus all my ktm stuff, which is a whole lot of stuff.
I love Scrivener so much I'm going to try to see if I can get C. to use it. Thus far, he's been resistant.
Oh, well. He may have to wait until school life gets a whole lot more painful to see the beauty of this thing.
bonus points
I just noticed this comment under the "writer's paradise" post:
For longer blog articles scrivener is a god send. It tends to be a little overkill for shorter ones.
(off topic, you write about apple and just now found out about scrivener? What next, iPhoto?)
Scrivener - A Writer's Paradise
help for the afflicted, part 1
procrastinating chickens (the perils of long-duration behavior)
Piers Steel's meta-theory of procrastination
"Structured Procrastination" by John Perry
1 comment:
I can't get that Project Target thingy to work - it just keeps shedding the word count I enter. Nor is the Help much help on it.
Luckily, Scrivener has great hands-on online help, so it will probably soon be solved for me.
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