fredart : blogbits

I’m sitting here thinking through just how to tell my story about how each year i plan to go to winter comiket, but how those plans are never really feasible, and how it’s always ‘next year’ that things will settle down enough for me to go. It’s kind of amusing really. I always tentatively try to plan to go to Winter Comike because it’s less intense (and happens at a much cooler time of year) than Summer Comike, but i’m starting to think that there just isn’t going to be a year where the last week of December is going to be a good time to hike my way to japan and try to run a booth and sell small books i had to work hard to create specifically for the show.

(what is comiket? here’s the wikipedia article on it Knowledge is p0w4 :P)

Recently i’ve been finding myself using Omni Outliner Pro more and more. It’s been pulling me away from text based notes, writing and other things. I used to write in plaintext, but over the past year i’ve been refining the way i work on scripts and general free writing in Omni Outliner, and i’ve been finding that it’s been working quite well for me. The most difficult thing about any application used in the creative workflow is that its really hard to find things that help you and not get in your way and hinder the organized recording of your thoughts. It took a while to develop a setup that worked well with my thought processes, but now that i have, writing has been going a lot smoother. One of my goals this week is to have the rest of chapter 7 laid out and organized to a certain level of detail, and so far things have been going fairly well. To do lists are a pretty obvious use of the program, but i’ve also been using it to keep a record of a lot of the things i come across while doing research and dealing with these annoying little links people have a tendency to send me. (To Heart 2 and Alien Cat Girls. Yes, i think i watched it 10 times.)

The fact that i was able to pull that link back up is a testiment to how nice it works in recording stuff like that (timestamps, url embedding, etc) Nice program — It’s probably the main reason i wont be able to ever leave macs and go back to the PC world

Now if only it can help me get ahead enough so i can go to Comiket next year…

(you should read Shigeo’s awesome articles on How to Comiket, just in case you ever do find yourself able to go :P)

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