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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
Professionally, I've been an editor for over a decade. I do still write fiction and music, but less often than I'd prefer.
I've always remembered W.H. Auden's advice: every writer should have a good gardener. He meant that the editor/proofreader in the writer's head should be good.
Metaphorically, though, I don't think of proofreading or editing as gardening. If I still wrote stanzas that needed trimming, perhaps I would.
I prefer to think of my internal proofreader as a text janitor whose task is to clean up after an incomprehensible idiot (i.e., me).
I tend to proofread myself with faux annoyance: "What mental jawbreakers did the imbecile inflict on readers this time?"
I've played that game of solitaire charades since high school and it always makes the task more amusing for me.
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Well, as it's been 13 months or so, I'm honestly
fascinated to find out if Marja went with Scrivener--or something else?
Given the blinking cursor issue, I did not see any viable alternative. All the rest--OneNote, EverNote, NotTabPro (doesn't come for mac, any-damned-way), Wikimedia's wiki, etc. *all* have blinking cursors.
The only thing that I think we discussed that didn't, was Scrivener. Just out of curiosity, I did book up LSBXE (Liquid Story Binder XE), which honestly, other than that, would have been amazeballs for Marja's needs, (due to its structure and how it works) but sure as hell--blinking cursor.
I've sometimes wondered if using something as simple as a DBMS, like MS's simple Access software, might not work best for her? Altho, again, not sure about the blinking cursor issue.
Hitch