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I know, I know. It's not even October yet! I have to start preparations rather early these days because I don't start new writing projects come November. I have way too many unfinished ones to be adding any new ones to the pile. Instead I use the month to work on something sidelined earlier in the year. Then December arrives and I'm usually sick of looking at whatever I just spent the previous thirty days working on.
That way when next I look at it I can go "What was I thinking when I wrote this garbage?" Also, "I sure am good at not noticing typos everywhere while I'm working on something." (This unfortunately was true when I was writing an update for Beyond the Beyond every week. There were many quiet edits to unmangle things.)
This year there's supposed to be a big revamp of the NaNoWriMo website. I haven't checked out the preview site because, quite frankly, I'm already a bit burned out on being an unpaid beta tester. Just yesterday I was doing some spellchecking in Libre Office and the program kept crashing when moving to the next spellcheck item in the queue. I did get through it eventually since it was mostly me adding words to a custom dictionary and not many misspellings to correct.
For anyone about to ask "Why don't you use Open Office?" let me pre-emptively answer. I've used Open Office for years. It has a nasty bug that causes a crash when tables get moved across page divides as a result of typing ahead of the table pushing its position down. Since I use plenty of tables this is kind of a problem. It doesn't happen to every table but when it hits there's no way to work around it except to add a forced page break ahead of the table. Open Office doesn't get much in the way of development these days so I've been getting used to Libre Office in its stead.
That way when next I look at it I can go "What was I thinking when I wrote this garbage?" Also, "I sure am good at not noticing typos everywhere while I'm working on something." (This unfortunately was true when I was writing an update for Beyond the Beyond every week. There were many quiet edits to unmangle things.)
This year there's supposed to be a big revamp of the NaNoWriMo website. I haven't checked out the preview site because, quite frankly, I'm already a bit burned out on being an unpaid beta tester. Just yesterday I was doing some spellchecking in Libre Office and the program kept crashing when moving to the next spellcheck item in the queue. I did get through it eventually since it was mostly me adding words to a custom dictionary and not many misspellings to correct.
For anyone about to ask "Why don't you use Open Office?" let me pre-emptively answer. I've used Open Office for years. It has a nasty bug that causes a crash when tables get moved across page divides as a result of typing ahead of the table pushing its position down. Since I use plenty of tables this is kind of a problem. It doesn't happen to every table but when it hits there's no way to work around it except to add a forced page break ahead of the table. Open Office doesn't get much in the way of development these days so I've been getting used to Libre Office in its stead.
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