Since my computer went down, all I’ve had to use was my phone and external keyboard or my voice recorder – though I don’t have Dragon to transcribe at the moment. But today, I borrowed my wife’s computer and it is much nicer to be able to type on a full-sized screen again.
There’s something about being able to scan up and see the preceding text that makes it a more comfortable writing environment for me. Of course, I have to get over that if I’m going to get better at dictation, but still, it made today a better experience.
I finally finished the escape scene I’d been working on – and now I really need to figure out what comes next. This was as far as I had thought out the scenes before my computer went down, and even with my wife’s computer, I can’t open Scrivener to check my next set of notes.
I know generally where the story needs to go next – to the First Plot Point – the decision my hero will make that will set the story in motion. For that, I need to get all four of my characters together in one place, and I know where that has to happen, it’s just a matter of setting the scene. And this time, I need to make sure that I boil it down to it’s essential essence.