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every time you sneeze you steal it from someone else. theres only ever 1 sneeze in the world
My favourite things about Scrivener
1. Navigation. You can see all your chapters, scenes, character & setting planning at one glance and switch between them very easily - compared to scrolling up and down in one long word processing document. Every file can also be a folder, so you can have collapsible items underneath it.
2. Word count targets. The “Project Targets” are particularly useful for NaNoWriMo so you don’t have to keep looking back at the website to see how you’re doing for the day, but more so outside of it, when you want to keep yourself working to a target but don’t have Nano’s charts and daily word counts. It also gives you a nice ding when you hit your session target.
3. How many pages? I only recently discovered this, but it’s very nice to be able to see in Project Statistics approximately how big your manuscript would be in pages without worrying about formatting.
4. Outlining. Scrivener has two methods of outlining - one is Corkboard, which is exactly what it sounds like, a digital corkboard with notes pinned on it that represent your chapters/scenes with their summaries. The screenshot above is called ‘outliner’ and lists collapsible chapters/scenes with various statistics you can select as shown in the tick menu. Generally I prefer Corkboard, but Outliner is useful if you just want to see everything in a clear order.
5. Full screen. I get distracted very easily when writing, so the full-screen writing mode is wonderful for me to avoid that - but you can still choose certain windows from the normal Scrivener view to show up. I have my targets and my summary, so I can stick to my plan when I’m writing and also see what progress I’m making.
6. Notes. No screenshot, but it’s a simple post-it note style box to the side of every document (chapter, scene, character etc.) that allows you to add notes. This may sound very simple, but it’s far more useful than I’d expected. During NaNoWriMo when I’m not meant to be editing at all, but I know something needs fixing, I will jot down something in the side like ‘Take out the horse’ so that when I go through again to edit I know exactly the things to focus on immediately but which would have taken too much time before. It’s linked to the scene so I don’t just have a pile of notes in one document at the end and then have to work out where it needs fixing.
Overall
I downloaded Scrivener for the first time two years ago, and now I can’t imagine working without it. It’s so nice to have the planning and the writing all combined into one place where I can easily switch between the two. I haven’t yet got as far in a novel created in Scrivener to use the compile features so I can’t comment on those, but so far all my experiences of it have been good.
One thing to note is that if transferring project between a Windows and a Mac version of Scrivener, it’s generally best to zip the file first.
[Screenshots from my current novel Kindling Ashes using the Mac version of Scrivener - some features may not be available in Windows yet.]
no way no fucking way....
NO fuckifn way
Critical Survival Skills To Keep You Alive In An Emergency
oh hey new guide thinggg~ some basics on how to practice! there’s SO much I could add to this, so it’s just the basics :O
short (kind of): there’s more to practice than doing something repeatedly, it’s also learning new things, problem solving, and honest critique. Each of those is its own skill…also be nice to yourself!
lifehack: when you see a Take One candy bowl in a restaurant, wait until noones looking and shovel candy into your pockets. god may judge you but his sins outnumber your own
Reblog if you’re staying on here when Pornhub buys Tumblr.
Matney Stealing Coin Cat Box
Adorable mechanical kitten comes out of cardboard box to steal your coins and help you collect money
https://tinyurl.com/y8g6y3mb
reblog if you would date a trans person, i’m trying to make a point
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My name is Mikey Peattie and I am a transgender student at Lake Dallas High School in Corinth, Texas. One of my teachers, Dr. Fionn Corcoran, is the first openly transgender teacher in our district, and possibly in the greater Denton/Dallas-Fort Worth area. In the month or so since he came out, he’s faced not only discrimination from students, but from his employers and fellow teachers as well. I made an LGBTQ+ safe space sign for his door, and before his coming out, it got ripped down maybe once or twice. Following his coming out however, the sign was torn down almost daily, and I would just keep making more in the hopes that maybe it would last for more than a day.
When all the smaller posters were torn down time after time, we decided to make a bigger poster, this one with the names and numbers of various suicide and LGBTQ+ hotlines on it, and even this one has been torn twice in the past week, both times by the same two students. Though these students were caught on camera in the act, their behavior was swept under the carpet as them just “having their own views,” and Dr. Corcoran was subsequently told that they may be forced to write an apology note and make a new sign, but that was it. The fact that these kids, and others, repeatedly tore down signs that were intended for nothing else but to make a certain group of people feel safe and accepted clearly shows the atmosphere of hate and anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric that is present at Lake Dallas High School.
Earlier this year, the Gay-Straight Alliance that I am Vice President of put up around 20 posters around the school. It was subtle, and simply just had the name of the club and the meeting dates. By the next day, only about 4 remained, and within another day, they were all gone. Even when I saw someone tear one down right in front of me, and reported it, the student was simply required to write an (anonymous) apology letter to the club, one that was clearly scripted and took him maybe 10 minutes.
These occurrences, which could be characterized as hate crimes, show the staff’s indifference towards the safety of its LGBTQ+ staff and student body. Dr. Corcoran, despite being one of the most highly qualified and considerate teachers at the school, has been reprimanded for situations that any other teacher could find themselves in without the administration blinking an eye. They are systematically trying to push him out, without causing a scene that would ruin their image.
I and many others have stood by for too long letting this kind of abuse occur, and have finally had enough. We write to you hoping that media attention will force our admin to provide a safe environment for its LGBTQ+ students and staff, and make our school a better place.
Please please please spread this, without media attention, my school will be able to continue in its patterns of neglect, endangering its LGBTQ+ students, whilst protecting those who would try to put us in danger.
PETA
you guys remember when PETA stole people pets off their porches and euthanized them?
you guys remember how it came out that PETA kills about 90% of the animals it takes in, including healthy and adoptable puppies and kittens, stating “ We could become a no-kill shelter immediately. It means we wouldn’t do as much work”?
you guys remember when PETA advocated killing all pit bulls for the crime of being pit bulls?
you guys remember when PETA handed out these comics to children when there were no adults looking?
you guys remember when they made a porn site and then filled it with videos of animal abuse, and (also in that link) claimed cats should be vegetarian?
you guys remember when PETA lied about sheep shearing, got caught, and defended the lie as true even after they admitted the sheep in their picture wasn’t even real?
you guys remember when they tried to excuse their horrifying ways by claiming that the person who exposed them was manipulating the facts by taking them and putting them in the wrong context?
Because I remember. I remember everything.
And I’m gonna make sure everyone else remembers too.
In honor of vulture awareness day, let me ask you a question.
Do you love vultures?
You should.
Here’s why:
1, They are simultaneously the most majestic, and the most f*cking derpy of birbs. Observe -
2. THEY’RE SO FUCKING BADASS. We all know that they eat dead things. Eww, right? Wrong. They’re capable of digesting fucking rabies, cholera, hundreds of strains of bacteria that would straight up kill your ass given the chance. They deserve ALL of the respect, but they don’t get any, because ‘eww they eat dead things’.
3. THEY ARE FUCKING AMAZING AT WHAT THEY DO - Some of the highest flying birds ever recorded, with amazing eyesight and smell. Vultures are highly specialised - yes, that means they sometimes have bald heads. So what? People are all over sphinx cats and those semi-hairless dogs.
4. If you think they’re ugly, well, look at these precious babs and tell me you still don’t feel anything:
I have more reasons, but, look, I’ll just get straight to the point:
THEY’RE GOING EXTINCT, AND MORE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
Populations of some vultures have fallen more than 90% in the last 20 years, and that’s scary as fuck. Reasons for this range from livestock carcasses being contaminated with certain drugs, to poachers killing them off because vultures give them away. But whatever the reasons, they’re dying off fast, and we need to act before it’s too late. We need to help protect them and conserve them as much if not more than some of the ‘cuter’ endangered creatures.
So what can you do? Here are some useful links if you want to learn more:
http://www.rspb.org.uk/joinandhelp/donations/campaigns/vultures/
http://www.hawk-conservancy.org/Documents/HCT_IVP_leaflet_2013_E_ver.pdf
https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/africanvultures
http://www.tusk.org/vulture-conservation-project
http://www.save-vultures.org/
http://www.birdlife.org/europe-and-central-asia/news/international-vulture-awareness-day-%E2%80%93-no-cause-celebration
http://www.vulpro.com/
https://tristatebird.org/adoptavulture/
https://webcamvultures.wordpress.com/adopt-a-vulture/
http://www.wwfpak.org/species/Vulture.php
Please consider helping our seldom appreciated vulture buddies, either by donating, or even just by helping to change their bad reputation!!
They really are amazing birds ~ thank you for sticking with my long-ass post
:P
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if you dont have me on facebook you are probably not missing out on any posts but the comment section is important too lmao
This is the Lucky Ace. Reblog to recieve a wad of cash that is oddly specific to your current needs.
I hate first impressions because the first impression I always give people is “the girl who doesn’t talk”
Please, my cat needs your help
Hi, I dont like asking for money but im really desperate. This is my baby and love of my life, Junior. He was recently diagnosed with kidney failure even though he’s still young, only a year old, and I dont know what to do. He’s always so playful and noisy but now he won’t even move.
This morning when I was looking for him to feed him, I noticed that his penis was all stained with blood and that when I touched him it hurt. I bathed him and tried to give him some food but to no avail. I even made sounds with his wet food but he wasnt moving. This was at six in the morning. I tried to call every vet I knew but no clinic opens here on Sunday and the only two that were open were expensive and far from my house. I took him anyway and they told me that his bladder was as hard as a rock and that if I had not taken him today he could have died. They had to anesthetize him and drain his bladder with a syringe, it was all full of blood and urine. I just wanted to cry because my baby felt so bad and miserable.
I’m in college, and as many understand, I do not have much money per month. Right now I spent $87 of the $150 I have for the month. Those expenses were the appointment, the injections of anti-inflammatory and antibiotics, the special gel for energy supplement (because he wont eat) and the serums and bottled waters since he can not drink anything else. Still tomorrow I need to take him again to have him checked but that means spending another $30, but only in case he gets better, otherwise it will be more expensive since they will have to use a probe to get everything he has inside and see if the problem is more serious.
Now I have to give him serum with a syringe so he does not get dehydrated, and every hour I have to give him the energy supplement. I still have to buy special food for kidney failure and pay for other injections. Only the food is $30.
I’m so stressed. My exams start this week and I have to watch him at every hour. I don’t have any money left and he still needs to go to the vet. I’m really worried since the vet said he could have died. I dont know what to do. I don’t mind not having money for myself but I still need it for him.
Anything helps, please. If you can’t please reblog my post and I’ll be forever grateful. Thank you for taking the time to read this.
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If you see this post, go do one (or all) of these three things:
Go make your bed (seriously, it takes like five minutes and you’ll thank yourself later)
Give someone a compliment. It could be a family member, a friend, or a stranger (it could make their day!)
Do something you’ve been putting off for a while, whether it be homework, laundry, or cleaning your room (life gets so much easier when you stop thinking about how much you don’t want to do something and just do it)