Exciting news! Over the next few months I’m launching a series of webinars to help you get better at Scrivener. Each one is designed to take you from confused to comfortable—or comfortable to super-user, if that’s more your speed—in about an hour. There’s no third-party group to join or give your information to; it’s just
In October, I’m leading an interactive workshop at the Writer Unboxed OnConference called “Losing the Plot: Writing by the Seat of Your Pants.” It’s the workshop I’ve always wanted to see at a conference, and when I gave it at Pike’s Peak Writers in May, the feedback was excellent. One attendee called it “group therapy
Do you love to plot or revise with index cards? Ever wished you could take them with you, reorder them, search them, add or change their color, or revise their content easily? You can if you work with virtual index cards on Scrivener’s Corkboard. I’m at Writer Unboxed today to give you the whole
What do you do when you hit a wall in your writing? I’m under a tight—self-imposed—deadline to get Blind Justice to my editor and I was absolutely stuck on how to approach the climactic scene. I only work with loose outlines and don’t usually have a solid idea for the ending until I’m more than
Have you ever noticed that children’s books and movies love to kill off the parents? Or at least get them out of the picture so the fun can start. Disney especially seems to like orphans as protagonists. Think about it. Snow White, Dumbo, Bambi, Aladdin, The Lion King, Jungle Book, Tarzan, Little Orphan Annie, Harry
For something different—and to celebrate the start of my Scrivener online classes today (it’s not too late to sign up)—I thought you might enjoy learning how someone besides me uses Scrivener. Hope Ramsay is the bestselling author of contemporary romances in the Last Chance series. She’s also a pretty savvy Scrivener user. She was generous enough
I’ve always thought of myself as a pantser, despite the fact that my left brain generally rules all other areas of my life. So I was surprised to find potential scene lists for my first two manuscripts while flipping through old notebooks the other day. Apparently I did more planning in the early days than