I have started running again. I hate running; I like having run. Heading to SF later this month for reasons; maybe I will stay on and do some LA for other reasons. Please keep your Ebola in check until after I leave thank you. Plotting novel. Diagram looks like an angry spider. This winter I will write. I'm about to spend a year saying yes to everything and seeking higher states of work. This may involve surgical removal of the internet.
I have started running again too! Yesterday was my third day. I did a little over a mile. About 1.2, I think. I'm very bad at it. Don't say yes to everything, though. Or else: Hey! Complexity! Come to an undisclosed location in NE USA and do some rolls[1] with me! [1]While this is referring to something edible, it is not referring to bread.
I wholeheartedly recommend Novamind and Scrivener, which I'm pretty sure are both cross-platform. If you do hit LA, a mini-meetup with myself, insomniasexx and I'm pretty sure a couple-three others I'm forgetting might be in order.
Scrivener I may turn to; I've been using other tools for screenplays. Let's see if my serial number from 2007 works... Novamind looks intriguing and probably more in line with the structure. Thanks for that. LA minimeet. If I'm there, let's do it.
You could go with Final Draft, Complexity, but the entirety of Hubskina was written in Scrivener so I think we have a clear winner here. If you're looking for free, Adobe Story and Celtx both are. I wanted to try Final Draft but the price tag made my wallet cry in pain and hide behind my computer monitor in fear of use.
Yeah, for screenwriting FD is my last resort for back and forth between me those who demand it; and after the feature free 'upgrade' pricing debacle and the hilariously awkward Scriptnotes episode with the FD guys who have now become a running gag between Craig and John, I'm pretty much done with it. Actually, since I found Fade In Pro I haven't looked back. Light, agile, modern and just gets out of the way for a draft. I think it lacks the annotated versioning/change tracking of FD but that's so much later in the development process (and such a specific type of studio writing) it doesn't really affect me at the moment. Celtx was always a nice idea but slow and unwieldy (cutting and pasting multi-page sequences into a 110 page doc was like waiting for the pitch drop experiment to happen). I didn't like having to be online to generate a paginated preview on their servers and the increasing move to cloud shenanigans was not for me. Never really played around with Story. I'm doing a lot of scratch drafts in Fountain, anyway, so I can use anything.
Fuck, dude, if I weren't under NDA I could tell you so many things about the features you were almost cursed with...