29 Years and Counting

[devilwrites]

Birthdays, for me, are a funny thing. I was born in 1980. My mom was born in 1960. We can both guarantee that on our birthday, the last digit of our age will be the same last digit of the year. So when 2009 came about, I didn't have to think twice about my mom's age: I knew she'd be 49, which meant that I'd be 29. The problem with my math is that I

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[zhai]

Happy birthday!

I read posts in a weird order, my eyes skimmed, so I read the "Marie Brennan wrote this post last year about being 29" bit first and had the exact same reaction as you: sheesh, she's 29? That's depressing. ;)

Have you been using Scrivener long? I'd been using yWriter, until the bleeping thing ate over 1000 words of my novel not once but *three times*. The last time it happened I ordered a Macbook Pro. Been using Scrivener now and I like it quite a lot.

[devilwrites]

The only trouble I'm having with Scrivener is converting it to a World document, because Scrivener has a MILLION PLACES where you set format, so even though I'm pretty sure I've got everything checked for proper formatting, when I convert it, and I have to reformat the thing all over again. OR, as in the last time, I had to go through six hundred pages in Word and look for places where the conversion ignored line breaks and put two or three lines of dialogue on the same line.

Can't figure it out, and no one I've talked to who uses the program is able to give me the same answer, or one that works. I don't get it!

Aside from that, I'm liking the program. :)