Scrivener and tea bags

I wrote more since last we spoke. I estimate it was a page or so.

I do all my writing in an amazing program called scrivener. If you have a mac and you want to write large things, like a book or a research paper or something that requires lots of pieces and lots of pages, you should buy it now. Anyway, scrivener lets you write a scene or a chapter or a fragment and save it for later. And then if you want to make chapter 1 come later you can drag the entire chapter to another section of the book. Or you can drag an individual scene somewhere else. For someone like me who writes and thinks in short bursts of brilliance (ha!) or at least in non linear ways, its like a dream come true. Right now I am working on chapter one, but if I get an idea for chapter 40 (which I did! Scene 1 of "late chapter" has been written. Its such a good one!) I can write all of chapter 40 and just plug it in later, when I get there. Honestly, I love scrivener. I bought it two years ago, and its probably the only reason I even have any book started. Word was uninspiring and difficult, and then there was scrivener. Oh scrivener...you came into my life and you saved me.

Anyway, the one drawback to scrivener is that with all this non linear, intuitive, wonderful workspace stuff, there is no page count. Or word count. Not for the project as a whole anyway. So it makes it hard for me to get my readers an accurate page count. Therefore, bear with me when I say things like "I wrote about a page." Honestly, I think I did, but who knows. I can export the whole thing to word and see how many pages it is after export, but for one new page, that's just overkill.

In other news, I have found a new favorite afternoon snack. Mighty Leaf Vanilla Bean Tea! Tea is great because it feels like a real beverage (you know, the kind that have calories and make you fat...), but its really just water with some leaves in it. But the vanilla bean tea is even more deceptive because it smells just like dessert! When you bring it up to sip you think, mmmm white chocolate mocha, but then its not. Its like essence of dessert. I like to add cream (which is only 2 weight watchers points!) so it seems even more like something decadent. I will confess, the nutella crepe from the crepe house across from the office is ever so slightly more satisfying. And the fact that I buy the tea at a cafe where they sell french fries, croque monsieur paninis and beignets makes buying just tea hard. But if that little tea bag can get me through a Friday afternoon without buying any of the above mentioned temptations, that's something.

I will be a writing maniac this weekend! There will be great strides!

Goodnight all (all 5 of you who read).