Sunday 7 October 2012

Scrivener - a revelation

Hello loyal readers - and you truly must be loyal if indeed you are reading this after such a long hiatus.  After a good deal of personal turmoil, life is on the up again...and that means I can get back to writing! 

In preparation for NaNoWriMo 2012 I've treated myself to Scrivener - a piece of software designed for writers (of all kinds) as a sort of word processor/corkboard/research storage/Harry Potter-style 'room of requirement'.  That doesn't really do it justice, so please do find out more about it from the Scrivener people themselves here.  I only got it a couple of days ago, and am waiting for Scrivener for Dummies to turn up from Amazon before I get too far in, in case I'm teaching myself the wrong way to use it!  But what I've seen so far looks great.  Being able to keep everything in one place (instead of over a range of Word docs, picture files, web links etc) is AWESOME, and the corkboard feature means you can write separate scenes and rearrange them as you like.  I think having the freedom to write small chunks, knowing it will be easy to piece them all together will be quite liberating for me.  Writing in Word feels very linear, purely because of its ever-scrolling nature. 

This year's NaNo promises to be a whole new experience...I can't wait! 

Happy writing,

Toyah

PS I bought my software using the discount code found at this website - 20% off is not to be sniffed at! 

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