...::: Anyssia :::...

... and I have to say that it's pretty amazing. The art is beautiful and the story is unfortunately heartbreaking. The expressions she gives to her characters are especially mind-blowing!


1000 W0RDS by `yuumei on deviantART

Also, for those who like the game Portal: xD

Portal Engagement Rings by `yuumei on deviantART)

This one is also a wonderful picture, with a desperate message. The way she showed it is... wow, how does she comes up with these ideas!

Countdown by `yuumei on deviantART

And this one is too cute for words!

1000 W0RDS: Linus and Fantine by `yuumei on deviantART

Anyway, some of her pictures are really creepy, but most are essentially beautiful ;p

Last year, I said I wouldn't be doing Nanowrimo again.

So, of course, guess what I'm doing again this year? ^^;;

Alright, to be honest, I don't think I'll write those 50'000 words in November. I'm mostly going to use the occasion to make new friends and hear about old ones :) Also, I'll be at my parent's for two weeks, so I doubt that I'll write a lot during that time. Anyway, if I do write, I'll try to write about Guide.

I discovered, while re-arranging my notes/chapters/files in progress, that I have currently written 38'500 words for Guide, 17'400 of which have been published in chapter 1 to 6 ^^ Which means people that I have already written the equivalent of another 4 or 5 chapters. But I still need to read, re-read, re-re-read them and then get in the usual back-and-forth ballet with lucime, my beta-reader, to get it publishable ;p So, it won't be for a while yet.


On another note, I fell in love with Scrivener all over again. When I write fanfictions, I always get worried that I have all my facts/canon right, so I have lots of bookmarks and web pages saved all over the computer with timelines, datas about characters, synopsis of episodes, ... and notebooks also. Lots of notebooks. I had also some information on various softwares.
You can imagine how easy it was to gather those infos ^^;;

Scrivener helps me with all that. It has something like three main folders: the draft one, in which you write your story/scenes/chapters and that you can organize in folders howerver you want, the research part, in which you can organize PDFs, images, sounds, web pages, ... and the trash bin ;p
I've been re-organizing all my files/notes for Guide and I can't tell you how much it helps to have everything I need in one window, instead of all over the place.


Still, I use about 4 softwares when I write:

1st - PageFour
Scrivener is great for organizing lengths of texts and such, but for one liner plot bunnies, I prefer PageFour. It has folders too, aka one FFVII folder, one for BtVS, one for HP, ... and in those I write down every plot bunny that bugs me.

2nd - Q10
This one is for the writing process itself. It's a full-screen, portable application (meaning, I can use the program from my USB key on every computers). You can tweak the colors of the background, the width/height of the writing space (meaning, if I want to see about 2 inches of text on three lines, I can customize it the way I want) and a few other things. Basically, you get a blank page with or without word count and clock and that's it. Then, you write. (without distractions, which is great ;p )

3rd - Scrivener
In which I copy/paste the text I wrote in Q10 and organize it and edit it. I can see the whole text in one long page, or just the chapters, or the cockboard, with card which helps me see where I'm going in the story. It has a full-screen feature too, but I prefer Q10 because I can take it everywhere with me.

4th and final - Microsoft Word
Because my beta-reader has the software, so we can go back and forth with *.docx files and liberally use highlighters and red font. Also useful to prettify your final version.

So, Pinboard user-scripts.

Some of them are very useful, others are just beauty accessories ;p

Here is a list:
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http://pinboard.in
http://pinboard.in/u:anyssia/
http://pinboard.in/u:thespanderfiles
http://pinboard.livejournal.com

After spending hours hesitating, I let myself be tempted in buying a $10 Pinboad account.
(an interesting thing to know is that the fee is just a one time occurrence: you pay to register (and if it doesn't please you, you can ask for refund) and that's it! No annual/monthly/... fee.
So, knowing that Delicious was shut down because it didn't brought in enough money for Yahoo!, I'm thinking that paying once $10 might be a not so bad thing... Especially seeing as how the owner is so dedicated to the website!)

• Bottom line? DITCH DIIGO AND MOVE TO PINBOARD, PEOPLE! ^^

I discovered along the way that Diigo as a character limit for the tags, titles, comments, ... which doesn't go well at all with me (especially not the character limit for tags >_<)
AND
they apparently can ban/switch to private any tag they judge as inapropriate or something. Which, in fandom, would be like LJ's strikethrough of I-don't-remember-which-year, when they deleted several communities/users because they posted arts/fanfics that didn't appeal to their artistic sense (and where a bit too NC-17 for them ^^;;; ). http://groups.diigo.com/group/Diigo_HQ/content/959613#31

• BONUS POINTS FOR PINBOARD:
- clearer design
- pages that load so fast you don't even have time to see the difference
- not character limit (not even in the comment part apparently)
- bookmarklet option that open a popup to bookmark your link AND SHOW ALL YOUR TAGS DIRECTLY, without needing to play fast and lose with the auto completion tag feature (you can use both at will: the small popup without visible tags but autocomplete while you write them, or the bigger popup with all the tags visible). I have so many tags, you can imagine that I love the popup with all the tags visible (that was actually one of the thing that made me reluctant to use Diigo)
- BULK TAG/ENTRY EDIT. No, really, it's extremely easy to use and much more useful than I would have thought.
- option to show all your links or the private/public/unread/untagged/starred (aka fav)/... with one click
- when you bookmark your link, you can check an 'unread' box, independent of your tags and see all those unread links in one click afterward
- star system. As in, one star to select or unselect, to mark that particular link as favorite
- Network system that I didn't try, as I already didn't use the one on Delicious
- the owner is very present, especially on twitter, and apparently ready to improve his website so it fits better the needs of fandom \o/ (see here, https://docs.google.com/document/d/17oqfHHkO48fVFY3sPQqkoCuqFnQOWe4fxRxXJ-lUglg/edit?hl=en_US&pli=1 a Google doc that we're updating to let the owner know what would be useful/necessary to add (like the bundles xD ) ). Pinboard as a definitive Dreamwidth feeling, in that the owner is very happy to count us amongst his/her user and to upgrade his/her website to fit fandom's needs ^^
- the possibility to add a note instead of a link. "Notes let you bookmark plain text on Pinboard without having to save it somewhere as a web page first. When you save the bookmark, Pinboard will create a permanent URL for your note, and then it will bookmark that URL."
- history of clics: you can see which bookmark you/someone else (re-)read/clicked on (http://pinboard.in/u:anyssia/history/all/)
- the date and the hour at which you added the link is shown
- recent/popular pages available, for when you want to procrastinate some ;p
- possibility to bookmark from your adresse e-mail
- two account type available: basic for about $10 VS archiving account $25 (or $15 if you already have a basic account) (Pinboard can download and store a copy of every page you bookmark, for your own private use. Enabling archiving will also enable full-text search for your bookmarks.)
- possibility to search through your bookmarks OR those on the website
- the slash (/) bar is allowed on Pinboard (Diigo doesn't take it well)

... and so on and so forth.

• Links to check:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/17oqfHHkO48fVFY3sPQqkoCuqFnQOWe4fxRxXJ-lUglg/edit?hl=en_US&pli=1
The Google doc we're (fandom) completing/commenting on to let the owner of Pinboard know what we'd like to be changed/added

http://deliciouslymad.livejournal.com/21308.html
http://kronos999.livejournal.com/17684.html
http://bookshop.livejournal.com/1105886.html
http://seperis.livejournal.com/903736.html
Summaries and rants following the new Delicious website

http://otw-news.livejournal.com/137668.html
Delicious fail and the Archive of Our Own

http://twitter.com/#!/Pinboard
Pinboard's owner's Twitter account

http://delpin.heroku.com/
Delicious → Pinboard username mapper. Add your usernames for others to find/Find your Delicious network on Pinboard

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AoR0vrg5fIdOdF9jSWJUcmRBaVpZQ1Z1Q0J2bm1uS1E&hl=en_US#gid=0
A Google spreadsheet to keep track of the migration from Delicious to whichever website people decide to use (shows your LJ name and twitter/Delicious/Pinboard/Diigo/Tumblr/AO3/Dreamwidth/Trunk.ly/Zootool equivalent)

http://oxymoron.dreamwidth.org/15595.html
A bit of Pinboard geekery: This is a tutorial for adding a Pinboard sidebar and custom Pinboard buttons to Firefox.


(there are probably a lot of mistakes in this text, but it's 2.00 am and I'm dead tired, so, sorry ;p )

Dress Up - Meet Cloudette by *kagaminoir on deviantART

I found this on my DW f-list just as I was going to bed and now I have wasted hours! playing this game, WARNING: IT'S ADDICTIVE! xDDDDD

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