#zenwriter

Nice aestetics, colors, love it

Gonna write sth rn

And we redesigned the appearance of folders; now you can add icons to them.

Originally I wrote on Microsoft word directly.

However, I recently discovered an app called "ZenWriter," which rids of all clutter typically found in writing apps, giving you the bare minimum. So visually, you see what you type, and that's all. You can still bold and italicize and center things, but it's just aesthetically less busy.

The best part is you can download what you write into a pdf or HTML file afterwards. The only catch, which urks me because I'm naturally a very particular person, is the indentations.

Their indentations don't match Word's indentations. So I find myself having to go back and re-indent every paragraph. Which, I mean, in theory, isn't a big deal until you realize that my whole style is obnoxiously long chapters. Redoing the indentations of 1-5k chapters is one thing, it's an entire another playing field when your work is 15-20k long 🥺 So don't be surprised if you notice a sudden inconsistency revolving indentations from now on, since I have to redo the older chapters of Limerence anyway, it isn't that big a deal.

But, in short, I write on ZenWriter, transfer to Word where I edit (to the best of my abilities), and I use Grammarly for that as well, huge help. And once that's done, I post~!

This has been my page for the last couple hours:

Let’s all pray that night time kicks my productivity into gear as it usually does. >.>

P.S - This is what Zenwriter looks like but fun part is it has a bunch of chill looking backgrounds to suit whatever you want. 

So in the 20 days since I’ve rounded up Cheap Thrill’s first part, I’ve spent a lot of time just having fun on Photoshop really!

I learned how to colour in pics and I’ve just been colouring anime girls right now,

I did this last night (just the colouring, I don’t own the pic!)

And I got two new writing programs! I forked out £13 for ZenWriter, which is beautiful and one of those “distraction-free” word processors. It has great music (that you can turn off if you’re not interested or prefer your own stuff), you add your own backgrounds and it looks so very satisfying. You can try it for free for 15 days though, really worth it.

A few things I will say though, is that if you copy and paste your writing into it, you will lose italics and anything underlined, the spellchecker isn’t fantastic and it saves everything as RTF files. However, for just writing up your work, it’s really nice and I’m very glad I paid for it.

The other program is Bisbisco, it’s free but not nearly as pretty as ZenWriter, and you have to pay $10 for the full version which allows you to do timelines and objects, but it’s character interviews are really useful for building new OC’s. They have all these helpful sections and ask questions that are actually relevant to majority of characters, like about social life, early life, psychology. etc. 

It has a lot of great features but I haven’t had the time to enter enough information to use them all yet. Things like architecture, locations, objects, chapters, timeline, analysis and an export option that you can use to change the type of document you finish it as.

But yeah, been a little busy, mostly working on WitchBoy (my original story that I’ve been world building for about 2 years) and trying out new things! 

I’ve decided I want to do a soft re-write of Cheap Thrills, whilst I’m working on the plot for the second part and Bella’s side story. I’m also considering posting it to AO3 too once I’ve fixed it up some. 

The Mermaid of Mayhem

Written by: @mermaid.aisling Featuring: @ripplethemermaid Background photo by: @jtnoirstudios Page theme: @winters-th  💙 

About two weeks ago I teased the first story of Ripple and I's story series. It's all finished and ready to be read now! All you need to do is follow the link to read the first little story. The Mermaid of Mayhem tackles some of Ripple's insecurities and it is the beginning of the Ripple-Aisling friendship. I hope you like it! 💙 mermaid-aisling.tumblr.com/RippleMermaidMayhem