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Some modest writing prep
Starting to do some prep work to get back into writing stuff.
One thing I've run into is that when I last was regularly writing I had an early generation *cheap* ultrabook laptop I carried around and a nearly decade old bigger laptop that served as my "home pc" and neither of those is still in use. On both of them I had an about half and half mix is stuff written in LibreOffice Write and vim, and when those two laptops got replaced I didn't get vim properly set up again. Well, I've now started getting vim set up again and just used that to start a list of things I want to work on this year.
Do I recommend vim as a writing tool for everyone? No. You're going to need to do some configuration of it to make it really friendly for writing prose and it is very definitely a text editor not a word processor. But with some settings made in the config file and a couple of plugins I can have a dark-mode editor for writing in markdown. No temptations to tinker with the exact font or page margins or the other temptations a word processor can give. It's also a lot easier to work with git from a text editor both as a way to easily push updated files to another computer, or work from either my cheap carry around laptop (refurb laptops FTW!) or my not-a-desktop-replacement desktop laptop (one day I might run a regular desktop again).
As for that list: two former NaNoWriMo projects that I think are worth giving some planning and rewriting. The one mainly just as a set of characters and premise, as it petered out without reaching a real conclusion, the other I actually hit 50K of entirely seat of the pants writing and I think there's enough there to be a book one of something longer or first story line of a serial or something if it was rewritten. There's two ideas I had for recent NaNoWriMos that I liked but didn't get moving. Then there's the recently mentioned solo-journaling game and expanding on the last two Magic School Doofuses.
One thing I've run into is that when I last was regularly writing I had an early generation *cheap* ultrabook laptop I carried around and a nearly decade old bigger laptop that served as my "home pc" and neither of those is still in use. On both of them I had an about half and half mix is stuff written in LibreOffice Write and vim, and when those two laptops got replaced I didn't get vim properly set up again. Well, I've now started getting vim set up again and just used that to start a list of things I want to work on this year.
Do I recommend vim as a writing tool for everyone? No. You're going to need to do some configuration of it to make it really friendly for writing prose and it is very definitely a text editor not a word processor. But with some settings made in the config file and a couple of plugins I can have a dark-mode editor for writing in markdown. No temptations to tinker with the exact font or page margins or the other temptations a word processor can give. It's also a lot easier to work with git from a text editor both as a way to easily push updated files to another computer, or work from either my cheap carry around laptop (refurb laptops FTW!) or my not-a-desktop-replacement desktop laptop (one day I might run a regular desktop again).
As for that list: two former NaNoWriMo projects that I think are worth giving some planning and rewriting. The one mainly just as a set of characters and premise, as it petered out without reaching a real conclusion, the other I actually hit 50K of entirely seat of the pants writing and I think there's enough there to be a book one of something longer or first story line of a serial or something if it was rewritten. There's two ideas I had for recent NaNoWriMos that I liked but didn't get moving. Then there's the recently mentioned solo-journaling game and expanding on the last two Magic School Doofuses.
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