As I've said before, I'm using 'Scrivener' for this current novel, having realised that with three strands of story and the need to interleave events taking place on different time lines, some more flexible way of working was needed. The quickly re-aligned index cards, colour-coded, with date in the title, have been invaluable, especially once I'd learnt that it made sense initially to separate scenes.
I don't like - or haven't yet learnt - how to match the appearance of the main Scrivener page with what I get in my Word document. Appearance, of the document on the page, is important insofar as I get distracted if it looks wrong. So, I am writing in Word and then, at certain stages - when a mental pause is needed - re-uploading section by section.
Each card has the option of allocating a status to it. Naming the status is up to me. I have 'first draft', 'revised draft' and there is a default 'final draft'. Something has so far prevented me from allocating 'final draft' to a single one of the sixty-eight cards already written.
Mostly words, a few prints, a few drawings ... and several unfinished stories
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Wednesday, 9 October 2013
Thursday, 6 June 2013
All my trials: Scrivener
A recommendation for Scrivener last week - and a list of reasons why - from Emma Darwin's excellent blog.
I tried it once before when I set myself up for Script Frenzy, but both died within days (my fault - too little preparation of either Script or software) but now being aware of the amount of work it took to sort Not wanted on voyage into sensible order, and that the follow-up will be trickier, I thought it worth a second go.
The video is useful, as is the tutorial, but the best thing is that the 30 day trial is for thirty days, i.e. if you have a day when you don't use it, it doesn't count, you don't have to use it within that time.
One day spent wrestling, back and forth between tutorial and a section of my wip left me scratchy and exhausted, but I think it will, in the long run, be useful, although it needs to be remembered it is an organizational tool rather than a writing tool.
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