#writerkos

[keziakos]

Text Editing software

In your writing, are you guys using a specific software for writing editing your works?

I work and love Celtx, but I wanted to try Scrivener. Do you guys recommend it?

[keziakos]

We are back on the saddle, babe!

So, I have to say that after God knows how many years, I am back to the writing wagon. And I am enjoying the sweet song of the muses who had been singing non stop during the day and dominating my dreams during the night.

Up until now, the amazing fantastic project of writing my dad’s memoirs became a monster... and kind of derailed of the initial plan to be a simple collection of tales into a grippling family history with a pint of drama.

It was only a book, then it became two, and now... well, if I really keep the divisions i have set for the develoment of the character archs, it would be maybe five or six ones. 

Yeah, I like complicated stories. But this is fun. As I knew exactly where I wanted to end, and kind of frogmarched through the outline and organized the plot in a way that I can work and reorganize the chapters as I see fit. 

And as I know that it is a serious of books, I know  I don’t have to do information dump in the first one as I can mention some tidbits which will be fully developed in the later books of the serious.

It is so good to do this, specially because this quarantine was driving me slowly crazy.

And now I have actually something to do, a goal, which  I can honest to God see an end.

And it is exciting!

Project one file is currently 114 k words and 48 chapters, but that is counting Book 1 and Book 2. Book one is almost done, I only have five or six chapters smack in the middle to work through - which are the hardest ones as these are exactly the climax ones which I know I will be bawling my eyes out.

The ending is done, as I needed to get it out of my chest, as I had the images of it floating my head for over six months now. And now that it is in paper, it evolved in something so much greater than I had ever imagined. I just hope people cry reading it as much as I cried writing it.

I literally had to stop as I was sobbing over the keyboard.

Good exercise, it means that it touched something raw inside myself that needed to be drained into writing.

Catharsis is very powerful.

I will try to use this as a small diary of the struggles of writing this. Maybe one day, if the book becomes is famous, I can come back here and laugh at my own words back in the day during the Covid19 quarantine