Back in January while sitting in with my ‘live’ in person writing group, Amanda asked me “what’s new?”

I responded with “I finally started working on the second draft of one of my stories.”

She asked “what changed?” as I have expressed reservation to her before about not being able to focus myself and just “get-r-done.”

My answer to her was simply “it was about time” which seemed sincere at the time. In truth it was a lie but not intentionally as I didn’t fully recognize what it was that had changed.

I figured it out just today. You see from Oct of 2013 I had been using a Acer c720 chromebook as my primary writing machine. It was great for doing first drafts using the google docs offline feature but when it came to editing, it just didn’t work for me. Can you say “1WP” (1st world problem)?

Well in December I began starting to transition myself into using the x205ta more and installed LibreOffice, Dropbox and Hemingwayapp and soon found myself feeling good about being able to tackle my secondraftaphobia.

I also installed scrivener (spelling? yes I suck) but have yet to mess with it to learn its functionality. Still its there if I can ever find the time to tinker/learn how to use it. I think with my time so limited that I would rather write/edit than fiddle (I am a bad geek).

As i’ve been writing this i’ve been tucked away in my office (the can) and my time is just about up as I can hear them calling out for me with some “emergency.”

TTFN (Ta-Ta-For-Now)