NaNoWriMo - revving up

A screenshot of a section of my Scrivener page; first time I've used the programme for a near fully-to-be-written novel. Current word count, because the initial idea came from a short story, to which I added a couple of other plot lines to see if it would run, is 16K, but much has to be removed as it will become irrelevant.

I've thought my way through this novel - Drink with a dead man - much further than I usually do; most of my novels begin with two or three random conversations, and I proceed, blindly, from there. Despite the fact that DI Luke Darbyshere's first conversation  continues only hours from the ending of the previous novel, I intend each to be capable of being read as a stand-alone.

Each of the lines in the left hand column is a scene, each colour represents a character, or pair of characters which the scene is about, and the tick icon tells me it is 'To Do'. For me, the ability to see at a glance how well mixed different PoVs are (and move them when necessary) is a prime advantage of this program. Central panel is the text, Right-hand one an outline, which can be viewed separately, synopsis fashion, plus notes.

Like many programs, there's far more potential to Scrivener than I use. I do the writing in Word and post in Scrivener at the end of a session as additional back-up. Now, with only days to go conversations are waking me early morning, for which I make a brief note as starting points for when Sunday arrives.

Also a first - I'll set myself a word target of 80K, but am well aware that will not be the final version.