You know what else? I really wish you could open a node just by clicking on it ONCE. (Otherwise it's click once on the plus sign, click once to select "Node", and then click.....TWICE to actually open the node.)

I always end up clicking twice on everything, just because I can't seem to remember which of those three operations is the one that requires the double-click. :)

Yeah, I'm doing what Jerica's doing -- writing the whole thing (in WordPad), and then pasting it into Sequel at the last possible moment. It's really hard to edit things in Sequel, because you can't just quickly read through an entire conversation without using the simulator.

I'd been about to suggest something called "Script View" -- which just displays all the dialogue (like a movie script, with the name of the speaker above what's said).

JERICA:

I like the open node idea as well.

DAVID:

Yeah, I'm doing what Jerica's doing...

I think that's along the same lines as what Debra's suggesting for Open Node mode.

"A River Runs Through It." (A friend really loved it and recommended it.)

"The Human Comedy" by William Saroyan. (It's a bittersweet small-town teenager novel from the 1940s, just adapted by Meg Ryan into an indie movie with Sam Shepard and Tom Hanks, with music by John Mellencamp).

A biography about the life of Washington Irving. (Sometimes I wander off onto a history kick. I'm also reading Stephen Ambrose's book about Lewis and Clark, "Undaunted Courage" -- which right now is more about Thomas Jefferson.) I've also been working my way through "The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon". (Now I'm coming up on the original Legend of Sleepy Hollow...)

When you're watching the simulator and you see something you want to change, it'd be nice if you could click on the currently-displayed node in the Simulator -- and have the tree to the right move to that node.

>I'll be excited when we're able to play through each others'!

Me too! Quite a group here!

I'm a professional writer, under various pseudonyms. As a freelance tech reporter, I wrote for everyone from Salon to Wired to Blorge, eventually starting up my own blog about the Kindle. (Reader's Digest chose one of its posts as one of the 20 "Best Reads of 2011.") I co-developed a word game for the Kindle, and I've also written two Android apps.

I was once hired to write over 50 short mysteries for children -- five of them were recorded as audiobooks -- and occasionally I dabble in the children's book "voice". (I also recently launched another blog about children's picture books). I entered this years Interactive Fiction competition, and am really looking forward to meeting other authors here!