I like to write spontaneously but often get confused with the time line. Things are in the wrong order and then i try to move them and it all gets confused
I tried scrivener and found it too complicated
thanks Martin
I like to write spontaneously but often get confused with the time line. Things are in the wrong order and then i try to move them and it all gets confused
I tried scrivener and found it too complicated
thanks Martin
I'm not convinced an app is necessary to solve the problem of an eight day week appearing in your first draft.
When I completed a first draft a while ago, I went through it scene by scene - just a phrase for each, and all on one page - it's how I checked that the pace seemed ok. If there was a bit too long where it was all quiet on the western front, than those were the scenes that I took a machete to (sorry if I'm mixing my metaphors). I then had to review the rest of it to make sure that it all flowed together, so checking that the days of the week were in the right order was a tiny part of the whole editing process. Editing took longer than writing the first draft.
It's why I'm now a planner rather than a 'pantster', and I think my current work in progress is a much better book. I haven't used anything fancy to do that. I used powerpoint in the initial planning stages as it seemed a tidier version of using post-it notes, but is just as easy to swap the scene order round until I felt it was working.
Thank you for your comments Martin. I too enjoy spontaneity when writing which is why I prefer to do my actual writing in Writer Pro ss there is nothing else on the screen to distract me. There is certainly a lot of support for Scrivener though so perhaps we should not overlook the organisational capability of that program.