I made my goal yesterday and talk about that along with some news about new projects.
Yesterday’s word count: 2709
Starting words for the day: 6955
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Excellent news about the word count, Nate… and I’ve said it before (and will say it again), you definitely have a talent when it comes to narration. 😉
I do not have an Asus netbook but I do have a HP mini. I will work on getting Scrivener to work on it. If I am successful I will try to post what had to be done to get it working. What Linux are you running. I can load any version. I have Kubuntu 1104 Natty on my Mini. Easy enough to wipe it and load any thing else.
I think the Asus and the HP are probably fairly comparable .. I’m running the eeebuntu base that’s been upgraded to 11.04 so we’re probably running similar enough platforms.
What happens when I kick scrivener on here is that is that I get it to the point where I want to open a project, but nothing happens when I click “open.”
Interesting…this morning, if I open it as root, it works.
then it is a permission problem somewhere. Could be where the temp files are stored. I think it is set up for the Mac or windows and the file location are wrong for Linux.
Yep.
And when starting as a user it’s SLOW to open, but I managed to get it going.
Now to back fill with the first 10 chapters…
Yes I at first though it was not loading then it just popped up. Does the same thing on my desktop. A little faster but not much. Most likely a beta issue and should speed up as it gets closer to release.
I have it working I think but I don’t have a BIG file to load for testing. It will take me a while to create a file large enough to test the mini with. My typing skills are not up the Lowell standard. LOL There are a few large test documents somewhere on the internet I have seen them before. I will look for them to use.
I’m thinking you may be making installment payments on that sleep debt for quite a while.
Good news on the word count! I can hear the optimism in your voice–a good replacement for frustration.
It continues to amuse that the main complaint that some folks have with your stories—“nothing ever happens!”—is one of the things I (and others, obviously) like best: this is like “real life” with “real people”, only in a FANTASTIC setting: a solar clipper sailing between stars!! That middle-aged shipmate sitting in her bunk, knitting away, could be ME! I love it!
I agree – it’s the lack of big space battles that attracted me to the Trader’s Tales. There can be lots of conflict without aggression – I found the tricks and games Pip & Cookie played with the stores allotment fascinating. Note – this is one of the areas where Ish shows he’s a problem solver, and not really a full-fledged leader. Pip gets his project off the ground and running – Ish never gets some of his great ideas off the ground, such as the in-ship hydroponics for fresh goods. In fact, it’s kind of sad that Ish loads his mother’s laptop up with all these university level courses – and then Pip, and later the Lois, get much more use out of it than he ever seems to.
Yeap, space battles can be nice … but they get old fast. You can only do so many variations of them. When you concentrate a story on the little things, though, it seems like there is much more room for nuance.
I keep thinking that using nano would be like dark room. Ctrl-Alt-F1, login, and run nano. Or is that the idea? Definitely no distractions, but you don’t get all the things I see with Scrivener–just a blank page to write text with white on black.