NaNoWriMo – 6.5 Hours To Go and StoryBox 0.0.44

I’ve tried to spend the day working up my plot and my characters for my NaNoWriMo attempt, but I kept finding things in StoryBox I wanted to change immediately. I really need to not try to write on the same computer where I develop StoryBox. I did manage, however, to come up with an idea, a half a dozen or more scene descriptions to start the novel, and a description of the final scene, as well as short descriptions of the essential characters. There’s still a lot of work to do, but what I’ve got should get me through the first couple of days. I’ll try to make sure I stay a step or two ahead on the scene descriptions as I go, and I may even get more done this evening as I watch Monster House with my kids.

My main worry, now, about NaNo, is that I’ll spend the time I’m supposed to be writing on tweaking StoryBox. For example, todays effort netted a Recent Projects list under the file menu, tweaks to the Black theme for checkboxes, a Dated Entry option (for doing things like keeping a journal inside of the Box of Notes folder), and the moving of relavent document types to the top of the File Drawer context menu (so if you right click on the character folder, “New Character” will be at the top of the context menu).

Enjoy your Halloween and good luck with NaNoWriMo, if you’re participating. I’ve set a goal this year to complete it, and I mean to. No more 5000 word attempts for me. Mark crosses his fingers, shuts his eyes and says this over and over until he thinks he believes it!

2 thoughts on “NaNoWriMo – 6.5 Hours To Go and StoryBox 0.0.44”

  1. Hi, I’ve just discovered Storybox. I’m doing NaNo for the first time this year so today was not a good day to find new writing software to experiment with! I’ve met today’s target though, so reckon I can spend a couple of hours with a new toy 🙂 I’m really looking for software with a drag and drop storyboard/index card system, and so far, while loads come close, none quite do what I want. One thing I like about Storybox so far is the full screen mode, and I’m looking forward to exploring further. Anyway, just wanted to say Hi, and wish you luck with nano.

  2. Thanks, I hope you like SB 🙂 I do have plans for drag and drop index cards, as I really want them myself. They will be there before StoryBox hits version 1.0, for sure, though probably not until after NaNo is done.

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