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Been very pleased with trying out manuskript as a free open-sourced version of scrivner, since I needed a program that could quickly and efficiently outline small scenes as I'm writing this somewhat out of order. Manuskript has its open source quirks (don't let typos on its site scare you off), but dang if its auto-word count tracker isn't useful. Here's what it looks like:
Realistically, I have always (since the college days) written my best work in textedit as a quasi stream of consciousness that blends notes into actual short dialogue exchanges and actual scenes, once when I "talk myself into" character's heads. Here, i copypaste those bits into Manuskript. Once when the individual chapters are reasonably complete, I start archiving them into a .doc file to prep for eventual Ao3 upload (and because I don't quite trust Manuskript yet not to delete things. paranoid to a fault ok).
honestly it's really cute when i can tell new characters getting comfortable and settling in my head almost like a day at the recording station booth, except with distinctly different vibes -
* writing gunter here, imma be honest, feels like trading a blunt with the dude on those little plastic porch chairs at 2am with your extremely crass, extremely entertaining fucking sailor-mouthed veteran uncle. sometimes he has a margarita. sometimes he has a beer. sometimes you get a sense that the stories aren't always as they appear (and sometimes, they keep you up the rest of the night with horror).
* vau... was always, always like standing with him on guard duty, those empty hours of watching across cold darkness. mind you, he had a great dark sense of humor at times, but it was never .... casual. he had a honed knife blade focus that i still feel and reach to this day. he always required the most work, and said the least, but demanded that you think. there was always respect.
* zi always likes standing behind me. sometimes with hands on my shoulders, sometimes actively reading the screen (which is fucking annoying as it is hilarious), and making saucy comments and critiques even while i'm ragging on some of his particular word choices (and choices in general). sometimes he'll pace back and forth in a stream of consciousness that just, goes and goes, and you don't really have the heart to stop because it's just ... nice. he asks the most questions back.
i talked a little about the "why" here but i can't specifically shake the nagging feeling that - despite knowing of fates and gunter way back when the game came out, it wasn't meant to be a connection until now since the character needed somebody -- if only to write him in the way i'm envisioning -- that doesn't judge shit (aka his vices), and has more of the life experience to do that justice. dude is a flaming train wreck, man. way more so than vau, and vau was an old psycho as is.
I have Feelings(tm) about how the man was ultimately treated in canon - i'mma save that talk until actually finishing Revelations -- but ah hell, I was always stubborn about giving my favorite doomed oddballs a decent ending. sometimes that's enough.
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