Need to get rid of those echo words in your manuscript? A while back, I wrote about a web site called Wordle that lets you create a word cloud showing your most commonly used words. Fun and highly distracting, but not very practical for regular use. As it happens, Scrivener has a built-in feature that will
Have you ever created a long scene and then decided it should really be two scenes? Maybe there’s a great hook in the middle, or you missed a time change. Or maybe you imported your MS from Word, and now it’s one long scene that you need to break up into 80! No matter why
For the foreseeable future, I’m devoting Tuesdays to writing technology topics, usually related to Scrivener. Today’s post shows you several ways to track your writing progress. If you have any requests relating to Scrivener, or other technical writing-related topics, let me know. NOTE: Word counts in Scrivener are based on whatever you have selected in
If you’ve been paying attention at all, you know I use–and adore–Scrivener for writing my MS. I use it for first draft, revisions, and pretty much until I’m ready to send it out. I export to Word only for the final formatting, read-through, super-fine polishing, and buffing. Here are a few handy things to know.
It’s only day six of 2010, and I’m already having to learn flexibility when it comes to my new goals. It seems that when I’m a bit stumped in my writing, and feel unable to add another word to the scene I’m working on, I play instead. How will Steve and Libby get out of
You’re probably intimately familiar with some sort of word processing software, especially if you’re a writer. But, while Microsoft Word and similar programs are great for formatting a finished manuscript, business letters, and other documents, they may not be the best software for writing a story. There are several programs out there for writers, and there’s