I’ve just discovered, downloaded, and purchased an awesome writing program called Scrivener. It was offered at 1/2 price to NaNoWriMo winners this year, and I’m not sure it would have appealed to me in the past, but now that I’ve been using a program called Journler for the last two Novembers, it’s perfect for me. It does everything that I do with Journler, only it’s actually designed to be used for writing a novel (rather than for keeping a journal). I love it. I actually downloaded the trial version and went through the tutorial. About halfway through, I purchased the program and started importing all of my writing/notes/research into it. It’s awesome. It’s as if someone sat down with me, asked me how I write…no, watched how I write, and then designed the program based on that. The only shortfall is the lack of a timeline function, which Write it Now had and I loved, but Write it Now is not Mac native, and was a little scary. A person could conceivably quit the program without saving, and it wouldn’t alert, it would just close. Scrivener is only available for Mac OS.
Anyway, so I spent a day importing my last four NaNoWriMo novels into it, as well as one partial novel that I started–but never finished–outside of November. (This is typical…November is my rough draft writing time. Any other time of the year it just doesn’t happen.) Now I’m faced with what to work on next. I have four complete novels:
Night Music – 2006 novel. Ready for 4th (and final, I hope) read through and revision. Frankly, I’m tired of messing with this one, so one more go-through will do it, whether it’s good or not. 
The Third Time’s the Charm - 2007 novel. Ready for 2nd read through/revision. This might only need one more go-through. It was a pretty solid rough draft, except the last quarter or so that was rewritten in 2009.
Mancunian Waltz – 2008 novel. Needs complete rewrite (1st). This is on the 2010 agenda. Probably the sooner the better.
Friends and Lovers – 2009 novel. Resting. Will need a complete rewrite, probably after November 2010.
Love Bytes – 2007 idea that never saw a completed rough draft. This might end up to be my 2010 November novel, just to get the completed rough draft. I like the idea, like the characters, just couldn’t come up with a solid story, and that’s something that just doesn’t stop me during November. (This year, case in point.)
Not sure where to start, but now that I’ve written nearly every day for an entire month again (I took about eight weeks off from writing before NaNo) I feel empty not working on something. Not writing just isn’t normal for me.
So… What to tackle first?
