Manon Eileen – a Writer's Blog

Here’s my top 10 favorite wallpapers. Click to see the large versions, then right click and click “Save Image As…” if you want to keep them!

10. Earth Inverted

9. Sinister City

8. Sky City

7. Forest Boardwalk

6. Red Parasols

5. Initiation

4. Tower of Babel

3. City Island

2. River at Night

1. Japanese Nightlife

This is my very favorite wallpaper, purely because of the amazing level of detail.

(July 27!! Time seriously flies!)

So far I’m still on track. Wrote more than 500 every day (not much more but at least I still reach my goal every day). This weekend I’m going to visit Berlin (Friday to Monday) so I wonder if I’ll find any moment to write, but I’ll try to make time for it, at least before I go to bed. That’s what I’ve been doing lately and it works really well for me.

I’m still waiting for my books to arrive. Dunno what’s taking them, but all I can do is wait, right?

Still on track as for the blogs, but I’m afraid I won’t be able to write my Friday post in time – I seriously forgot that I’d be away this weekend. Somehow these History of Psychological Treatment posts are just not working. Every time I want to write and publish them, there is some obstacle that prevents me from even starting it. Maybe it’s just not meant to be. I’m considering moving on to a different topic. *sigh*

Tomorrow is my driving exam, I’m somewhat restless because of it but I know I’ll be fine.

Ahh… Well, see you next time!

It’s been a while since I last reviewed a Writing Tool, so I thought it was time to do one again!

This time I chose for Q10, and this is what their website says:

Q10 will clean your kitchen, walk your dog and make excellent coffee. Well, not really. But it’s really good as a full-screen text editor.

What, to me, makes it especially interesting is that it’s free. Features of Q10 include: live text statistics, customizable look and paragraph format, a timer alarm, spell checker, notes, target count, autosave, and more.

It's all black, what do I do?!

It took me a little while to find out how to use it, but luckily I had the time to toy around with it a little. After you’ve installed Q10 and you open the program, you just get a black, full screen page. At the very bottom, it shows your word and character count, how many pages you’ve written and the time.

That’s all. I had no clue whatsoever how I could, for instance, set the timer. I didn’t even know how to close the program. A little daunted, I closed it. Then, when I restarted it a few minutes later, I saw a little green message pop up in the bottom. Ah! “Press F1 for help”. And there it was, all the options listed neatly.

So, I found that if you press CTRL+T, you can set the alarm, when you press CTRL+P you can set the general settings, etc. Aha! You can see the list of all the options in the screenshot on the left.

Finally, I was getting somewhere. I changed the font color to a color more agreeable on my eyes, set the timer and had at it.

In all honesty, this is a nice program to work with. It’s absolutely distraction-free, it has just enough functionality that you don’t get distracted by toying with the options and once I got the hang of it, I was convinced I’d want to use this more often. You can use it not only for writing, but also for writing blogs or long emails or for school assignments.

And again… It’s free.

You can read more about Q10 on their website, which is also where you can download it. You can choose two types of downloads: with or without spellchecker.

http://www.baara.com/q10/

Enjoy and let me know what you think of the program!

Remember the Weird Phenomenon post about the Lake Erie Lights I posted a few months back? People were convinced floating ball lights were UFOs. An organization specialized in researching UFOs and the like concluded they were landing planes, but that didn’t really convince me, either. The lights seem to hover oddly, not at all like airplanes fly. Now, check out this video.

Aren’t those exactly like those Lake Erie lights?

They don’t have a real explanation for this ball lightning either, but to me it sounds a whole lot more convincing that it’s a natural phenomenon instead of extraterrestrials. But maybe that’s just because I’m a skeptic (not just of E.T.’s but of everything in general :p).

What do you think?

Myth busted?

I sort of forgot to post this yesterday… >.>

Anyway, I’m still going strong! I’m still waiting for my books to arrive, though. They were shipped the 21st so it can’t take much longer!

As for my word count goal, I’ve passed 500 words every day (6/7, of course) so far, twice I even passed 1000. One day I didn’t write as much words as I should have but I made some major edits to the WIP so I can forgive myself for that!

I’m right on track for the blogs, too. I posted five blogs last week, as planned. However, I didn’t post my friday blog (about Lobotomy), because I didn’t have time for it Bad planning, I know.

I did decide that my blog schedule is too intensive as it is. I barely have time to actually write anymore, and that’s not what I want. So what I decided is that I will publish my Criminology and Psychology posts (that I usually post on Monday and Friday) every two weeks. One week I will publish the criminology post, the week after the psychology post. These are also the most intensive posts to write, so I’m actually very happy with this schedule. That way I take away some pressure, but I still continue to post about these topics because they are great to write and to share.

Well, that’s it for now! Wednesday I’ll post the next check-in!