Failed Word Counts

So my attempt to keep myself at a constant word count of 3k-5k was an epic failure. I have yet to reopen my story since before last Monday and much less typed anything of value. I wish I could say that I had any desire to continue my story but the sad truth is that without a deadline I have no real drive to push on. Not to mention that the Christmas season is always a hard one for me to write in. With all of the family parties etc. It's no real excuse but I think I'm momentarily dumb when it comes to writing my novel. If I don't begin writing again I'll just have to make it a New Year's resolution!

In other notes: I have been introduced to a wonderful new writing software. Okay, well it's new to me. My brother-in-law came across this little bit of open source writing software in a search and passed it along to me. Storybook is the name of the software and it's fantastic. It has separate databases for locations and characters, allows you to specify multiple locations and characters for each scene and will graph who is where and when. This nifty software also lets you track project ideas and you can assign a tag to it for future reference. You can tag it done, work in progress etc. The character database entry fields are very generic and so you can add your own questions, descriptions etc. This software also allows you to follow multiple story strands as well and rearrange scenes as you need. Overall I think that this software is keeping up with the paid versions that do similar things. The best part about this one though is that the source code is open to all. You never know who's going to come out with that addition you need!