It’s been two months since NaNoWriMo, and the words haven’t been forthcoming. It’s time to shake them up a bit and see what they have planned. All of my current stories are in Scrivener and, good though it is to see everything in their appropriate folders and chapters, the series […]
Software
Paper is flat, e-readers are flat (almost), but books look best in 3D. Having a book printed up to sit on your shelf is a great moment, surpassed perhaps only by having it taking pride of place on someone else’s shelf. What of that time before the book is complete? […]
Creating Virtual Book Covers
As a writer/budding author, we know how useful Scrivener is for keeping our projects in order and structuring our work. It’s available for Mac OSX and, in a slightly less feature-rich version, for Windows. It might even be possible to run it on Linux. The perennial bugbear of Scrivener (and, […]
Scrivener on the road
It’s been a little over ten days since NaNoWriMo 2013 ended and it’s now time to put some thought into the ramshackle mess of words that came out of the month. One of my weakest areas of writing, and one that’s even weaker during NaNoWriMo, is character development. The answer […]
Character profiles
In preparation for this year’s NaNoWriMo, I stumbled across Aeon Timeline – a handy piece of software that encourages both freedom and detail in your writing. It’s sometimes difficult to write in a linear timeline (one event following the next) because my thoughts are invariably looking ahead to a scene […]
You must be logged in to post a comment.