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I've recently tried ChatGpt for help with brainstorming. Not too shabby. But... it can't write a compelling story like a good writer can. It sucks at dialogue and jokes. Ah, well.
The rule about not ending a sentence with a proposition was caused by students mistakenly thinking the rules they learnt in Latin class applied to English. In Latin, it is grammatically impossible to end a sentence with a proposition. Fowler's _Modern English Usage_ says a conjuction may be used at the start of a sentence for emphasis.
Yes, that's a good point! Or maybe use emotions to reframe how we think and feel about the work we do, like remembering how it feels after scrolling social media vs. completing a creative project.
Yes, but when I start I can not be consistent on the task, the motivation runs out or can't find emotions to continue and I leave the task between somewhere. I know the importance of the task but I will not do like I know the problem I know the situation I know the reason I know the solutions I know the better solution I have the ability to do it but I will not do it. I think in this situation motivation will not work cause I don't have any particular goal which boosts me but we can use discipline which can keep us doing the thing.
I'm not sure why anyone would want to try and write like another author. Developing my own voice was absolutely essential. In fact, copyright law reveals that style is the only thing of legal value: "Copyright only protects the particular manner of expression of an author in fixed form." Literary ideas are not protected. Only your unique style, tone or voice. Just my two cents.
I have had atticus for over a year and I really would not recommend it. It is glitchy, super slow, freezes up randomly, and there are multiple formatting errors especially in regards to trim sizes. For example some sizes they claim are 'supported by KDP' are not KDP-compatible. And they are missing a lot of trim sizes and other features. Their customer service is fast and friendly in a cheap, useless way--they do nothing to actually try to help you with these issues and are strangely carefree about them. I'm giving vellum a try, wishing I had done that from the start.
If you coming from a typewriter then Atticus is absolutely awesome because you get a very basic word processor that, right now, is unable to do anything near to what MSWord, Pages, Scrivener or Google Docs can do, but coming from a typewriter this would not matter to you because you will have an awesome though extremely basic NotePad-like section to write your novel in where you don't have to retype a whole new page every time you make a typing error. The great thing about the minimalistic section where you do your actual writing of your novel is that ProWritingAid works seamlessly with your basic writing section of Atticus giving it a boost and making it a lot better for you, but after paying your once off $147 for Atticus you will then have to pay for a ProWritingAid monthly, yearly or lifetime subscription to get this added super nice benefit. I got the lifetime subscription of ProWritingAid. Atticus does nothing to assist you with plotting, planning, character building or structuring your novel in any shape or form. I've owned Atticus for almost two years now and after two years they are still telling me that these updates to the actual writing section of Atticus take time and after almost two years I am still being promised that Atticus plans to be a full rounded writing software package that is able to plot, plan, structure and do everything a novelist needs it to do to assist in your writing, but still no basic JKR style plot grid like Dabble has and no great improvements to the actual writing section of Atticus either. You know that place where you spend hours upon hours on your masterpiece, the actual writing section of Atticus. Instead all that Atticus has done in the past two years is continually improve on the section of Atticus that enables you to expertly format and publish your ebooks and paperbacks. This is the awesome part of Atticus, but the funny part is you need to write the novel first before formatting it for self publication and the writing section of Atticus is so limited right now, boring and bare bones. I mean if you don't want to wait another two years you could pay for another software on top of what you paying for ProWritingAid ProWritingAid. It's called Plotrr and you could do your plotting over there and export it to Atticus. It's totally unfair to force writers who have waited two years already for the writing section of Atticus to improve to now be told to go and spend more money until Atticus can catch-up and make good on there initial - and now - after two years their ongoing promise that Atticus will eventually not only be a great formatting app, but also a full featured writing app that can compete with Google Docs, Scrivener, MSWord and the best of them. The way Atticus put it was that Atticus was the baby born from Vellum, Scrivener and Google Docs having the best of the three. Hopefully this eventually happens because right now all Atticus really is, is a brilliant book formatting app that can compete with Vellum and not much else. If you looking for world, character, plot, structure, storyline, timeline, scene or chapter building you will not find it here. At least not yet, in 2024. All the writing section of Atticus has has is a side tree, save as you write, a goals tracker and a timer, but no add-on feature like Google Docs or MSWord so you can add all the missing stuff like a left information side bar where you can add your plot, synopsis or notes so it's nothing like Google Docs or MSWORD just yet, but after almost two years of waiting and after almost two years of excuses from Atticus I am still hopeful that Atticus will become a full featured writing, plotting, novel structuring, character building, note taking and novel honing app it promises to become.
As of 16th december, I'm not experiencing any bugs. Quite the opposite. I'm surprised by how smoothly every one of my design elements is rendered (I even have text boxes within the manuscript) and how identical the final epub file looks to what I see on the preview. Perhaps I've just been lucky or perhaps they have already ironed out those bugs since your video. Thanks for the vid, anyway!
Was this an ad? This was kind of sounding like an ad, especially with the "I've never tried Vellum before, but it can't compare to Atticus." Girl, what?
I'm glad you mentioned "buggy" because I just bought it and few wee things got stuck. But it didn't last long and away we went again. I really love it. Joanna Penn uses Vellum and I do have a mac: both these positives got me considering it however like yourself I wasn't keen on the high price tag. Good video thanks
Almost 80% before line editing in Autocrit is amazing. I put my final chapter of a third edit and compared it to King and it came out to a 78.9. I will take that any day.
Thanks so much for the comment and the kind words. That's awesome! And yeah, 78.9 is pretty close as well, I think the whole tool they made at AutoCrit is such an interesting idea.
Atticus just did a hard crash. I have done multiple resets, reboots, even uninstall. Dead as a possum on hwy 29. Customer support is unresponsive. Got any help?
You tried contacting them? They usually respond fairly fast when I send them a support ticket from their website. Are you using the browser or the desktop version?
I would rank them in this order. Most engaging to least engaging. -Opening#2 -Opening #1 -Opening #6 -Opening #5 -Opening #4 -Opening #3 Just my opinion.
Congratulations on moving this idea forward. You know this process wonderfully well, and your clients will surely be pleased with the end result of your efforts!
