News from the writing-innovations front

[silverflight8]

Having heard the excellent advice about overcoming writer's block, paraphrased:

Write your words in a different, unreadable font like Webdings, so you can't see what you've written. Then go back the next day and untranslate it to see where to start for the next day, and continue writing in the unreadable font to prevent your internal editor from critiquing.

...I decided to follow it.

The writing went well enough as I dashed off the next piece of my GLORIOUS TALE (subtitled: Pixie Lights). And then I, being your usual impatient fellow, decided to untranslate it without waiting the aforementioned night.

When I switched the font to Times New Roman, though, I ran into a small problem.



MY GLORIOUS TALE, complete with typos (because I couldn't see)!


Word's inability to translate certain words seems to be random. There are parts of one word translated properly, and parts that aren't. Typoed words are translated properly in some cases and in other cases. So I switched the boxes (which is Word's way of freaking out and saying it can't render the text) back into Webdings and translated them manually.

I am getting good at reading Webdings, but next time, I think I'll just turn the colour of the font white.

Comments

[lullabymoon]

Oooh, I've never come across that advice. Sounds good though I think I use the white font colour when I try it. :D

[silverflight8]

It was quite useful, except for the didn't-translate-properly part! Good luck with it :D

[azuire]

... This will never work for me. But it looks to be doing the job decently for you, huzzah!

[silverflight8]

I am glad to have heard of the advice; I think it will be helpful! Aw, why wouldn't it work for you?

[azuire]

Because my internal editor is not foiled by Webdings! I work best with things like Ommwriter or Write Or Die, when there is soothing music to distract me.

[silverflight8]

You have a very resilient editor! *hands out cookies for the heck of it*