I am currently using the Scrivener for Windows beta. There’s still a few bugs to it, but I’m pretty sure it’s my new love. Used in conjunction with LibreOffice, it has become my new “thing.”

I use the note cards on the cork board to kind of outline my story as I write. I can also give myself a word target to reach during each session, and I can reset the target at any time, which is nice.

I’ve signed up for NanoWriMo this year and I really think Scrivener will help me and others. So if you’ve signed up, or even if you just like to write, hold onto the soon-to-be realized dream that Literature & Latte will have Scrivener for Windows up and available for purchase soon at the very reasonable price of $40. Nice.

Currently loaded into Scrivener:
“Allies & Enemies,” the sequel to “Heroes & Villains”
“The Panic Pure”
“Topping”
“Bastian”

An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good at Amazon
Panoply at Amazon

I have $10.04 on my card. I need at least $24 to get money out of the ATM. Thanks for not sending the child support, douche.

I know it’s terrible to talk about someone anonymously on the Internet, but… douche. Some nameless person that has left me his children somehow managed not to send any child support at all this month. On top of that, I talked to him yesterday and he said there would be money today.

Guess what there was nothing of today? That’s right… $$$.

Some people out there are probably like, “Why the hell is she so angry? Why doesn’t she just pay for those kids herself?” Well, for one thing, my budget was already super tight. For another… I willingly took on the responsibility of ONE child. Now I have TWO of them to take care of and someone snuck in and decided to eat half a loaf of bread for breakfast as toast. What does that mean? It makes it hard to make kids their lunch if there’s no bread, no juice boxes, no fruit or whatever for them to eat.

Lame.

::one step away from mental breakdown::

Let's Make Dumplings at Amazon

I was a crazy kid. I used to believe that at some point in the future I would become rich and powerful and I would have a company build me a fantastic time machine and I would go back in time and make my life–my younger self’s life–better.

So when I was a teenager, I used to imagine that some future version of me would come back in time and put money in stocks or buy a big chunk of Google or something like that for me. Then I would grow up rich.