CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@denis Sometimes, my keyboard will stop working. Or my trackball. Or both! Hours later, I might get a notification that there is too much power drawn by the external devices. For a keyboard and trackball? That sure seems odd.Short? Maybe not full on short but some lint sparkling quietly in the port? See if you can clean it. Maybe some moisture?

@denis is there a way in which I can use this incremental approach with fiction writing?I'm not a long-form writer. I thought this is how it usually done? At least from the little I saw from authors talking about their processes it seems they have some sort of idea they want to express and it can be relatively short, like a paragraph to a page. Then they create some sort of supporting document for the structure of the story: an outline, story grid, or whatnot. The main idea usually gets supported by themes that in turn can be the base for subplots. Then plot points get expanded to chapters in the first draft. Then editing removed continuity issues and hones the prose.In my mind it maps almost 1:1 on software development.The main idea is like the pitch for the project. E.g. nanoc is a static side generator. The outline is the first prototype. First draft is like the 0.1 release. Then editing is like debugging and optimisations. And your final manuscript is 1.0.The main difference is that in software we have no chill to stop at 1.0.But as I said, I’m not a writer so what can I know.