The folks behind OmmWriter are aware of this ephemeral soundtrack, and they’ve done everything in their power to give you a fighting chance to get in the creative flow. Your goal is to just sit there and not listen to the music. It just starts flowing, and the number one rule regarding flow is: “Ignore it,” because any observation of flow risks that flow making a run for it. Your feet flat on the floor in front of you, your spine is straight, and you look directly the screen. You brew the coffee, grab the right mug, which you then place in precisely the correct location on your desk. Think about how you begin an intensely creative act. OmmWriter leads with a simple idea: creativity has a soundtrack. My favorite is #7, which I call: “My old school typewriter and I sitting at the bottom of a well”. The keyboard sounds have variation and generally don’t annoy. You pick the sound that occurs when you’re typing, and it’s not a solid, repetitive sound. More importantly, the application provides seven keyboard soundtracks. The application comes with seven chill songs, which are designed to stay the hell out of your writing way. My favorite feature of OmmWriter is the soundtrack. These minimalist preferences allow you to choose a serif, sans serif, or script typeface, and one of three typeface sizes. Applications preferences are built right into the writing area and are represented with glyphs.In full-screen mode, there are three gorgeous white backgrounds to choose from: snow, white, and white-pattern.If you leave full-screen mode, the full-screen window calmly fades away. OmmWriter is a full-screen text editor with an intense focus on simplicity, and when I say intense focus, I mean a maniacal focus on stripping away every distraction that might prevent you from writing… and then providing a subtle set of new distractions. I used that fine tool for a good two weeks before I returned to my pleasant, vanilla TextEdit, but that two-week journey is worth understanding. Let me start by saying that I didn’t write this draft in OmmWriter. And I think you should write more, which is why my holiday present for you is OmmWriter. This requirement of simplicity is rooted in my belief that choices are distractions and distractions are the leading cause of you not writing. No macros, no line numbers, no revision control, just pure writing simplicity. It’s just a simple text editor ( Sentinel, 15 pt, FTW) that allows me to do rich text editing, search and replace, bold, italics, and the occasional underline. As sophisticated tools go, TextEdit is bare bones.
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Is where I’m currently sitting MacBook Pro friendly or not? If that answer is yes, I’ll fire up TextEdit and get started. The choice of which to use often comes down to location. The lessons I’ve learned in that time are myriad, but today I’m thinking about simplicity.įor first drafts, I use one of two tools: a Moleskine notebook or TextEdit.
There was a weblog way back when, and then there is this one, which, 15 years after my first foray into independent writing, actually resulted in published work.
Since high school, I’ve continued to write constantly. Old writing is like an old girlfriend: the memory is better than the reality.
It’s sitting on a 3.5-inch floppy somewhere in a file format I’m certain will prevent me from ever reading it again, and, that’s probably best. To God and Back Again was never finished, let alone published. Seven pages in and I’m worried that double-spacing is going have an impact on whether I get published.Īmbition. I was silently asking myself, “How am I going to make this palatable to the editor? To the publisher?” I sat down at the computer and the story just showed up - seven pages of it.Īs the creative burst subsided, I stared at those seven pages in the word processor - Wordstar - and I began to fret about line spacing, page numbers, and other formatting decisions. What was surprising was the vein of writing I found in myself. I was, not surprisingly, in high school at the time. The first story I wrote for myself was a piece of fiction about God being sent to high school.
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