Meanderings of a Fandom Magpie

So some people collect notebooks or journals. I, on the other hand, seem to collect writing software. I used Open Office for years, then transitioned to Scrivener (but had to stop using when one of its updates bricked the software irretrievably) then I went back to Word. Which...as we all know, is a bloated POS that just happens to be used by pretty much everyone. Sigh.

I decided to try Ulysses yesterday as I was checking for software updates on my Mac. (Currently, I think Ulysses is only available for Mac and iOS, but here's hoping they make a PC/Android version soon.) It's not free, which is a drawback but I've used it two days now and I think it may become my go to. See, what Ulysses has---besides a completely uncluttered interface---is the ability to write on a story on the iOS app and have it be available (via iCloud) on my Mac. So I can write on my lunch break, on my phone, and have the additions/corrections show up when I fire up my Mac that night. I get a lot of my ideas during lunch so for me? This is worth the money to give it a shot.

Like Scrivener, it has a lot more functions and bells and whistles than I'm sure I'll need, but unlike Scrivener (and Word, tbh,) those things are in the background unless I need them Otherwise, it's ready to go as soon as it's downloaded.

I'm writing my first story for this year's Happy Steve Bingo on it. I'll let you know how it goes... :D

 
For the RBB, I just hit the minimum word count yesterday. The story is 5414 words and 12 pages and counting. 

For "The Ability to Stop"---it's...temporarily on the back burner while I get the RBB story done. But at least the readers are used to (I HOPE) a long delay between chapters...

And my 3rd WIP (because I'm nuts like that) is a fluffy Stucky story written for Escapologist's birthday---which she'll get late, but she won't care. ;-)

Chapter Nine of "The Ability to Stop" is here. 

I'm right at 130,000 words. Holy hell. :D

Thanks for reading if you're so inclined :D

(Slightly more than six sentences, from Chapter Nine, which is finally ALMOST DONE.)

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“I could have called you home,” T'Challa said in a tone that said he’d strongly considered it. “But Baba…he was so proud of the work you were doing. He would have wanted you to stay there.”

Nakia turned to quirk an eyebrow at him. “Your father… he did not want Wakanda openly involved in the outside world, not until the aid mission to Lagos.”

T’Challa acknowledged this; he’d attended the same council debates. “Yes. But… he was proud of what you were accomplishing. And he would have wanted you to stay and finish. So…I did not call you home.”

It would have been disastrous had he tried, Nakia knew. She and her team had had months tied up in the op---investigations, planning, false IDs and covers, all the logistics involved in breaking up one of the largest trafficking rings in Africa. Had he called her, she would have gone, and willingly, but…Nakia was suddenly glad he’d made the decision for her. “I understand,” she told him. “And it pleases me to think your father did as well.”

Chapter 9 is now 27 pages and counting, which looks like it'll be closer to 40 pages by the time all is said and done (because, while Shuri's section is almost done, I have to write Nakia's next. THEN I'm done.)

Word count for all of "The Ability to Stop" is 123,234 words and (currently) 279 pages and counting. 

If you want to get started (or re-read) here you go. :-)