I have much angst
Dec. 17th, 2012 04:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
silverflight8My computer is throwing me the blue screen of death.
Thank God I had emailed my yuletide 2012 draft to a beta last night. My beta-reading document will have to be restarted, I suppose. And I have a dropbox backup of my current fic, but...it's in a .scrivx form, and I am strongly suspecting it might be Scrivener's fault.
AGAIN.
Last year my file associations got horribly messed up by Scrivener. I wonder (now that I've decided to scapegoat this program, why not go all the way?!) whether it's the reason my laptop will randomly shut down when I'm away - it didn't happen til recently.
...but I have been running Scrivener for about a week or two without a whole lot of fuss...I just don't know. I didn't install anything new. Blergh.
ETA: It's working now, omg. I feel like I can't take credit, since it was Windows Repair; the biggest problem is my main source of help is the internet...and when I can't use my computer it becomes totally inaccessible. BUT IT'S WORKING NOW. I'm so happy.
Thank God I had emailed my yuletide 2012 draft to a beta last night. My beta-reading document will have to be restarted, I suppose. And I have a dropbox backup of my current fic, but...it's in a .scrivx form, and I am strongly suspecting it might be Scrivener's fault.
AGAIN.
Last year my file associations got horribly messed up by Scrivener. I wonder (now that I've decided to scapegoat this program, why not go all the way?!) whether it's the reason my laptop will randomly shut down when I'm away - it didn't happen til recently.
...but I have been running Scrivener for about a week or two without a whole lot of fuss...I just don't know. I didn't install anything new. Blergh.
ETA: It's working now, omg. I feel like I can't take credit, since it was Windows Repair; the biggest problem is my main source of help is the internet...and when I can't use my computer it becomes totally inaccessible. BUT IT'S WORKING NOW. I'm so happy.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: Dec. 18th, 2012 09:45 am (UTC)SO GLAD it's all back on and working. WHEW!!!
What is Scrivener - like Semagic or Wordcounter? I shall avoid I think!
no subject
Date: Dec. 19th, 2012 09:49 pm (UTC)Scrivener is a writing program for writing long things! It's good if you don't write linearly - it lets you cut things up, see the little groups as index cards/bulletin board, lets you store all sorts of things (images, web files, plain text files) in a research folder...basically it lets you get all organized for writing. It's kind of complicated (I gave up trying last year!) but it's much easier to wrangle things in it than in Word, which is the main advantage :P I am not familiar with Semagic/Wordcounter, so I'm not sure!