As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
–Henry David Thoreau
Yea, I slacked off and at the same time hit some massive writer’s block. But I can only control what I can control, and I have 18,000 more words to write in the next week! I can still do this, full speed ahead.
I know I slacked off today, but I’ll make it up on the weekend!
Still working on today’s word count. Since this is the first weekend since I started this madness, it is also the first chance I’ve had to consider where I want this word train to go. While trying to document the stations we’ve passed and scenery we’ve witnessed, I churned out a quotable for your edification (after the jump):
Hi all, I have released an early version of a Java desktop application I am calling “aMuse” developed for NaNoWriMo. Screenshot:
Download the zipped All-in-one Executable
Zipped Runnable JAR (MAC) (ALPHA)
This application is designed to break through writers block by noticing inactivity (30 seconds) and popping up a thought balloon with different words (primarily action verbs, but some variety as well) to stimulate the writer’s creative process. By default random fonts are turn on, which uses a handful of packaged fonts to stimulate creativity. The balloon is draggable, you can force it to always be on (not just when you are inactive), and you can turn off the random fonts using the right-click on the system icon tray. If there is a demand, I would like to look at showing images, and possibly even playing music (possibly through a streaming web service).
I haven’t done a lot of testing, this was developed on a Vista machine w/ java 1.6.10. Comments on system requirements and bugs are solicited.
If you’d like to donate something for my time and towards future development, I’d appreciate it.
If a picture is worth a thousand words, how many words is a 1 second video clip worth? Obviously we could extrapolate 24- or 30- thousand, but do you really think the other frames (pictures) add as much as the first? And if they don’t, what does a graph of the relationship look like? Is it an exponentially decaying function?
Great game, and what the hell can you get for five bucks anymore anyway!? My morning coffee is five bucks. Buy it now.
