![]() ![]() One HUGE thing I love is that there’s no scrolling or searching through a massive Word/Google document to fix a specific section. Scrivener also lets you label scenes with various stages of completion: to-do, drafted, first revision, second revision, final, and so forth. For example, with Band of Sisters and its sequel (women’s fiction), I labeled the point of view in each chapter with a certain color, which quickly let me know where I was getting too heavy on one POV, or where I was missing another for too long, and so on. You can also label scenes and chapters with keywords, colors, and icons that make it easy to manage, remember, manipulate, etc. In each of these views, you can drag and drop entire sections to reorder them, and you can see at a glance if something is missing chronologically. With Scrivener, I can see every chapter and/or scene at a glance and in three different ways (the binder, the note card/corkboard view, and the outline view). Some reasons:īig projects, like novels or nonfiction works, are impossible to keep in your head all at once. I use Scrivener mostly for drafting and revision. ![]() Writing Time-Saver and Organization Heaven USA-Today best-selling author says Scrivener for writing and Microsoft Word for editing. It’s all a huge process, but it now feels like building something sharp, tight and tangible, instead of looking at it through cloudy glasses.Q. What is the best software to write with?Ī. Once I’m happy with the bones of my story, I will transition over to Scrivener and start writing the scenes, and getting the book ready for another pass from The Editor. I’m going to work almost exclusively in Timeline in order to get the structure set. But it’s important to get this all nailed down and codified. I have a lot of this up in my head, based on the Editor feedback, etc. So what I’m doing with Timeline, is restructuring the content I already have, and inserting new scenes and chapters, in order to tell a better story. Part 2 was edited and I have copious notes from my awesome editor. Now that I’ve gotten these technical aspects put to bed, I can shift into a more creative mindset and hopefully carve out some time to throw on the headphones and make some magic! A Note on the Magic: ![]() I say all this to say that I don’t feel as if I was avoiding the creative process, but merely using the time I had to do what I was mentally capable of doing. I have the luxury of having children, which affords me very little creative time, but quite a lot of time where they might be running around, watching TV and being distracting enough where I can setup these two apps without having to use a lot of creative brain-power. ![]() It’s important to spend as little time on this as possible, so that it doesn’t take away from your creative time. If you put in the work, you’ll get a lot out of it. I’ll probably post a more in-depth video on this at some point but there’s a great deal of customisation that can go into making your timelines specific to your story. After something of a learning curve when it comes to syncing data between the two programs, I think I’m at a point where I can actually start working with both programs creatively. I’ve been using Aeon Timeline 3 in conjunction with Scrivener. ![]()
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