Pc

kaput.

Definitivamente. Por isso não vou poder responder a comentários e e-mails. Só os vou poder ver uma vez por semana, na biblioteca.

Et bien, c'est tout!

Mudei

Para o new Blogger...

*scared to look*

A...

... tosse do gajo passou, mas como este tempo frio não é de fiar, deve voltar:(

Note to self:
*comprar.pc.novo.sem.tosses*

Pc

Anda com a tosse de novo. Se eu desaparecer é por isso.

O computador

... anda de modas outra vez. Se eu desaparecer é por causa disso.

Pena >:(

Que PENA não ter comentários, que PENA!

Short story

"Turning out a short story can be a wonderful and exciting experience -- once you get the knack for writing them."

E porque eu não me consigo calar com isto

A história passa-se no final de 2005. Uma adolescente de 14 anos entra no Hospital de Santa Maria com uma overdose de misoprostol, vulgo Citotec, o medicamento para o estômago liberalizado nos últimos cinco ou seis anos como método abortivo auto-induzido que resulta em inúmeras sobredosagens diagnosticadas nas urgências. Ana - chamemos-lhe Ana, é curto e serve - tomou 64 comprimidos. Remetida de um hospital de periferia, chega "já em choque" a Santa Maria, com "alterações vasculares importantes ao nível do tubo digestivo". Em bom português, a Ana está toda rebentada por dentro. A operação não a salva.

Resto da notícia no DN.

E porque o dia 11 de Fevereiro está cada vez mais próximo.

News

Coisas que eu devia estar a fazer agora:

- escrever
- fazer exercício
- as duas coisas ao mesmo tempo (pode ser possível!)

Ou:

- escrever um post assim todo à maneira para o Blog Braganza Mothers :D


*Must think something... nice and eeeeeeviiiil*

Mais software para escritores

PageFour Notebook

Notebox Disorganizer

Papel

yWriter

Scrivener for Mac OS X

software & personal databases - façam scroll (e o site tem imensos outros recursos).

NoteTab Light

The Journal

(Uns são de graça, outros nem por isso.)

Mais software

Gratuito (para roteiros): Cinergy Script Editor

Fiz o download ontem do Celtx, mas não consegui usar aquilo (dava erro).

Ver se descubro mais algum programa gratuito para escrever guiões...

Software gratuito

Para escrever roteiros.

"Celtx has an industry standard screenplay editor with all of the features writers need to keep their fingers moving, like intuitive formatting, text auto-complete, pagination, script styles, CAPS selection, scene management, spellchecker, embedded notes, find and replace, and PDF generation.

Celtx also supports plain text document editing so you can write a poem, music lyrics, or your complete Novel."

Download.

The Playwriting Seminars

Parece ter muita informação disponível.

Script Frenzy

Acho que em Junho vou fazer isto.
Já agora aprendo como é que se escreve para televisão/cinema/teatro...

Bali

Bali, originally uploaded by the phototherapist.

Do they look like a couple!

Do they look like a couple!, originally uploaded by Keith Yeung.

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, originally uploaded by kubik*.

THE GOOD DREAM OF PUBLISHING - Why not you?

"What I noticed this morning, reading through the notes on the list, was the "long-odds" emphasis--the statistics that illustrate how difficult it is to break into the publishing game and keep going. Those kinds of articles, warnings, etc, used to give me the willies when I was an aspiring writer. I heard them everywhere--from my father, who wanted me to be "sensible" and find some way to support myself, from the aging, die-hard cook at the bowling alley where I worked for six months, who was sure I was going to get my heart broken, wanting something so huge, so different, Not For People Like Us.

So, for anyone out there who might be getting the willies, who hears too much of the "long odds" talk from people in his or her life already, I want to say:
Writing and publishing books is a great life, and it's worth pursuing. For all that publishing makes me crazy some days and the way the money flows is not for the faint of heart, it's a great life. Writing is excellent, and so is seeing the work in the world, doing whatever it is going to do.

It is lovely to write for the love of it, and of course you should love the work, but there is absolutely nothing wrong with wanting to publish, too. I burned to publish. I had no desire whatsoever to write in my garrett all alone. I burned--still do--to communicate ideas, thoughts, dreams, hopes to others. Communication is not completed until there is someone on the listening end. I was determined to figure out where I should be writing, and just kept trying venues: literary short stories, articles, novels, science fiction, then finally romance, which fit my voice and passions like Cinderella's glass slipper. "

The Rocky Road to Paper Heaven

Como é - lá fora.

"If your book does very well, you will receive three nasty vicious personal attacks from people youve never met, in print, within the year. Dont take them personally. They arent personal. They are just part of the time-honoured tradition of cutting the legs off people who grow fast especially beloved by Canadians, but observed elsewhere as well. Keep the clippings. Apply them to your head if it gets swelled. Dont bother with revenge. It will take care of itself."

Lol.

Sobre escrita, por Margaret Atwood .

Pacing: How To Avoid Putting Your Readers To Sleep

http://www.sinc-guppies.org/public.article.manprep.2.html


«According to Webster's, pacing is "the rate of movement or progress." Slow passages that don't move the story forward can put your readers to sleep. A well-paced novel means readers can hear you saying, "This happened, then this happened, then this happened..." Readers will be eager to find out, "What's going to happen next?" A number of factors can drag a story to a halt or never let it get going in the first place. »