I can get on line in an emergency (like I need to check recent activity on Mefi 20 times an hour), by sticking in an actual wifi card in the old style PCMIA slot and say a Hail MAry and an our Father and configure some cold war era Cisco interface etc.Īnyhow, I like it because it, this old think pad T21, makes a whirring noise, so I think there is something to the supportive noise environment thing. Seems people on the Apple OS, worry more about and use more energy on the creative stuff itself.īest, I've been able to do so far (or afford) is an old work thinkpad that I've gutted of everything cept a copy of word. Reading the help boards and tooling around in the neither regions of the scary MACHINEKEYS REGISTERS knowing that one wrong integer and you can kiss your computer bye bye. dll file or something and next hing you know you've blown an hour on that shit.I've blown an hour or 20 on that shit.
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YOu know people complain about how closed an OS environment Apple is, but there's no denying if you're creating content the last thing you want to do is worry about updating a driver or finding that missing.
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I've heard clearing the writing area of distractions and meditating for about 10 mins (some folks use some sound thing or other), but I think I just need someone to stand with a gun to my head for me to do my best work, sometimes.Īnyhoo, it is disappointing the way a lot of the writers are OSX only as someone mentioned above, makes me wonder if I should say fuck it to the Windows environment altogether and jump on an Apple deal-io. I shift around, fidget, fuss and fiddle with writing solutions and environments like a 8 year old who's just drank a whole 2 liter bottle of coke and has fire ants in his pants. Posted by Strange Interlude at 7:36 PM on April 4, 2010 There's a bunch of semi-crufty "studio" features that I could take or leave, but at least they don't get in the way of my actual writing process. It's really only useful for scriptwriting, but since formatting is one of my least favorite things to fiddle with, I love that Celtx auto-sets everything I type into it into the proper screenplay format. So far I'm getting one hell of a lot of use out of a freeware app called Celtx. Speaking of great writing apps, this month I'm channeling my inner Donald Kaufman and writing my first-ever screenplay for ScriptFrenzy.
Does it take a little more time to write this way? Maybe, but I haven't driven myself insane in the process. My creative engines, like Bartertown, are run on the pig shit of mindless distractions. The same goes for most of the other minimalist "zero distraction" writing apps I've tried - I can't take my mind off the fact that I'm basically writing in a padded room. I tried Ommwriter a few weeks ago and found it an absolutely maddening writing interface to try doing anything useful in.
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