I got my laptop back!
I’m hoping that nothing bad ever happens to it again.

Anyways, NaNoWriMo starts the Saturday!  Everyone should join.  It’s about being creative, not about producing a best seller.

But yeah…  I’m bored…

My laptop decided to die today…
I think it’s hard drive failure.  The hard drive started to act up and when I tried to repair it, it kept giving errors.
After formatting the drive and trying to reinstall, I started to get read and write errors.
Then the superDrive stopped reading CDs…
Now I’m sad…
I need to go to my emo corner.

So I’m planning on participating in NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month).  It sounds sort of fun.  Write all of November in hopes of completing or making up most of the story, editing in Decembar, and having the satisfaction of writing something afterwards.  I keep telling myself that I’ll write a book someday, so I figured why not start this year while I’m still young.

I hope I can do it, but I have to keep in mind that college comes first.  I’m in the middle of choosing a writing software though.  I know I don’t want to use a standard Word Processor like MS Word or OO Writer, so I’ve been looking around.  I first saw Bean, but it’s still a standard word processor.  I was considering it since it’s minimal and runs fast, but I was pretty sure I’d need something more.  Books and Novels need a better organizational setup for the “word processor” or “text-editor.”

So there are three different pieces of software I’m currently torn between, 1 is sort of knocked out do to some reviews, but they are StoryMill, Jer’s Novel Writer, and Scrivener.  StoryMill caught my attention from MUPromo, but after reading the reviews, I decided to avoid it for now.

I started to play with both Jer’s Novel Writer and Scrivener.  I’m stuck between deciding which one I like better.  I fell in love with the user interface and ease of use of Jer’s Novel Writer, but Scrivener does have a bit more features.  Jer’s Novel Writer is much easier to use.  I like the margin notes and the ease of use of the database.  They both have full screen, which is awesome, but Scrivener’s is a bit better and easier on the eyes.  But Scrivener does have some setbacks.  The user interface isn’t as kind and intuitive as Jer’s Novel Writer.  It also doesn’t seem to make writing the primary purpose of the software.  It seems to be based on organization than actual writing, but I guess it makes up for it in features.

I’ll post some screenshots and more in depth comparison as time goes on, but right now I’m torn.  Both are ~$30, which seems great compared to some of the other things I’ve seen out there, but I’m not sure which one is for me.  I guess I’ll play around and find out.