Re: Contest: Turning someone's world upside down
Normally... I start with a mechanical pencil and write at least a few paragraphs and lots of dialogue. Then when I figure where I'm going with the script, I type it into an Alphasmart Neo. For the last few I dumped that into WritersDuet.com, fixed it and saved as PDF.
No such luck with my newest crapmobile script. Started out the same, mechanical pencil. But had trouble with a different Alphasmart Neo than I normally use (I think it was set for MAC and not PC). So it wouldn't dump without adding all kinds of crap. I ended up trying to retype it into WritersDuet.com. But that didn't take some reason -- it looks like they added a lot of stuff -- so not working for me, and since I "allotted" myself two hours to write my crapsterpiece I didn't have time to figure it out.
I ended up retyping it into... wait for it... MMS2000. That went fine. But when I tried to print it as PDF my Adobe crap, barfed on me. Found CutePDF, downloaded and it worked perfect, as usual. I had a chance to read it once, made two corrections and got it in two minutes before midnight.
So yeah, thanks bunches for bringing up painful memories.
Originally posted by Centos
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No such luck with my newest crapmobile script. Started out the same, mechanical pencil. But had trouble with a different Alphasmart Neo than I normally use (I think it was set for MAC and not PC). So it wouldn't dump without adding all kinds of crap. I ended up trying to retype it into WritersDuet.com. But that didn't take some reason -- it looks like they added a lot of stuff -- so not working for me, and since I "allotted" myself two hours to write my crapsterpiece I didn't have time to figure it out.
I ended up retyping it into... wait for it... MMS2000. That went fine. But when I tried to print it as PDF my Adobe crap, barfed on me. Found CutePDF, downloaded and it worked perfect, as usual. I had a chance to read it once, made two corrections and got it in two minutes before midnight.
So yeah, thanks bunches for bringing up painful memories.
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