Revelation

I have finally reached a decision concerning the debate I was having with myself over the past week. I have decided tot take a day and plug my lengthy 50k novel into Storybook. The politics and characters are getting so involved that I'm beginning to have a hard time keeping track of them. The details are getting hard to keep straight so we'll see how it goes with Storybook!

Mid-Week Decisions

So I was looking on the chat boards for my writing group the other day and I noticed that there were about four or five people who were from the north. As a result they were not able to make the weekly meetings because Marlborough is just too far for them. As my husband and I were walking back from our local pharmacy I decided that I needed more writing time out of the house and so I put together a bit of a last minute meet-up in our current town. We are far enough north to many of the members of our writing group that three of them have said they will come. I am hoping that I can arrange to have it every other week so that they alternate with those in Marlborough. It will be beneficial to the group to get a few more people involved and beneficial to me to get my word count up!

Debate

Today I'm having a bit of a debate with myself. Due to the inaccuracies that I keep finding in my story that I wrote for NaNoWriMo I am thinking that it may be in best interest to plug in my current work into Storybook. Storybook is a great piece of Open Source software that helps you track your character's details, location and more. It will even generate charts for you letting you see a timeline easily or where your characters are at any point in your timeline.

My only hesitation comes from the fact that I would have to plug in 50k words and think about chapters now rather than later when I'm done with the project. It would take me the better part of the evening I think to plug it all in. It might be something better done on the weekend on second thought. It would go faster and I would be more accurate with my hubby taking care of our 14 month old.

Speaking of software: I've finally figured out how to download my documents onto my iPad into Pages, the iPad equivalent of Office Word. It's not very direct and Apple really is into making money since the only way to make a direct save is to go pay for their iDisk service. A whopping $99 per year for the same service that Google offers for free. All in all I love the iPad but the small things like this and flash player are definite limitations that can be a pain in the butt.