Why Do Artists Get All The Fun Toys

Daily Sketching for Creative Inspiration
https://www.domestika.org/en/courses/2227-daily-sketching-for-creative-inspiration/

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Anyway, one of the first videos is about the materials the artist uses, and it's a cool video. While I was watching it, I was thinking about the "materials" I use as a writer, which are two:

(1) A student license of MS Word that I got back in 2010? 2011? and never updated because I hate change
(2) Firefox, which I use to do research when I'm too lazy to make something up

...and also this free online journal maybe, which is like a sketchbook I guess?

I'm not saying that writing is easy, but I will forever appreciate that at least it's cheap.

Save the Cat! Writes a Novel

On the recommendation of someone whose writing I admire immensely, I started reading Jessica Brody's Save the Cat! Writes a Novel, and it's great. Specifically, it's very useful in terms of concrete practical information concerning issues such as structure and word/pagecount.

What I especially appreciate about this book is that Brody doesn't obsess over "conflict" as a guiding concept (which I think is overrated) but instead focuses on character development spurred by the tension between what the main character wants and what they need, as well as how this development is spotlighted by the narrative structure of the character's world.

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