Sorry, but I am very wary of this. WineHQ is a bit cautious about Winetricks, more or less saying that if you use it, you're on your own. And, since I have a working version of Scrivener under Wine and the v1.9.12 breaks things so thoroughly, I shall note your solution, but I have a special bargepol...

Updating: v1.9.9 did load successfully under Wine, and the Licence activation worked. What were the differences? 1: The working system used Esellerate 2: It requested the "Serial Number Name", not an email address. And it all just worked, no problems. I would suggest that you do not upgrad...

The latest version, v1.9.12 (I think I have that right) fails to recognise my licence code, and a program called paddle.exe crashes under Wine. Which means I shouldn't have done the upgrade, since I am now being told my trial has expired, and so all my Scrivener files are inaccessible. It looks as i...

I think I shall give NiaD a pass this year. It's a little too close to the start of NaNoWriMo, and I will be lining up background research for that, and essentially setting up all the stuff that goes into the briefs for all the chapters of NiaD. And I shall be doing it for something I want to write,...

pigfender wrote:Except, of course, I’ve read your stuff before and I know you can do it!

There was a lot of luck there.

I know you don't say very much at this stage, but a wee clue would be useful. Very broad-brush genre, such as "Western". There are some things I wouldn't touch with the proverbial bargepole. Something like "1930s Crime" could be "The Untouchables" or Agatha Christie, bu...

Not a plot point as such, but I've used the term "upstairs" for whoever the marley's real boss might be. Anyone with an actual name in the plot summary I am assuming is no more than low-level management. I am just throwing this in as a possibility, but I remember A Matter of Life And Death...

OK, include me in.
I'm actually feeling hopeful this week, for the first time since November

The classic pirate accent is essentially the English of the Bristol area, and caught on because of Robert Newton's accent when playing John Silver in the 1950 film. This wasn't entirely wrong. Bristol was one of the major ports for the English trade across the Atlantic. But there were a lot of other...

Compared to my NaNoWriMo efforts, this was in some ways a more awkward lump that I am used to. From sundry details in my briefing I inferred it was the conclusion of the story, and however much effort the inestimable pigfender puts in, it's not the same as the ending of a story you have been working...

The bear makes a comment which, even in a publication written for this modern and uninhibited age, would be considered lengthy, verbose, and unremittedly offensive.

In short, Belgium!

3670 words, and just in the nick of time.

It is rather stupid riding off into the sunset. No streetlights.

I think I can get finished in time, but 1900 words so far, and I've only just got to the climax of my assigned chapter.

Anyone got a theremin I could borrow?

And I may have a shortage of f***in' contractions.

Oh dear, I keep typing "Flintstones"...

560 words so far.

Time for a break.

I had a few problems with getting WordPad to open the instruction file, but it worked OK in Libre Office

There's a lot that has to happen, and I have a feeling that my chapter is close to the end. The events fit with the genre conventions for that.

And now we know. This is J T Edson territory: geography, timing, and likely character backgrounds just after the end of the Civil War. The movie "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" is set in this area during the Civil War, mostly further East. Most of the fighting was against the local India...