Tag: scrivener
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Scrivener Tips, Redux
I am in the midst of production work for my next book, and this is the time I always learn new things about Scrivener. Here are some random bits of info. If this makes no sense to you, don’t worry; I’m mostly documenting this so that a year from now, I’ll google it again and…
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My Writing Process, 2014 Edition
Okay, so there’s this thing going around, a #MyWritingProcessTour thing, and you know how these memes work – someone nominates you to answer a bunch of questions, you nominate a few other people to do the same, and so on. I’ve written a lot about process here, and I talked about it in an interview…
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The Death of Paper Notes
One of the changes in OSX Mountain Lion is that it has a dedicated Notes application. It’s just a basic text editor, except it syncs with other Apple devices. This isn’t entirely new; iOS devices have had a notes app for a while, and it would sync with an IMAP server and show the notes…
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Dumping Word
I hate Microsoft Word. I don’t know how much of my life I’ve wasted on Word, although I’m certain I will be on my deathbed and wish I had all of the years back I spent cursing at Clippy and the Ribbon and every idiot who ever handed me a book or story entirely formatted…
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Fieldstones and Moleskines
I know I said I don’t do new year resolutions, and I don’t. But one of the things I’ve been trying to do – it’s more of a course-correction for my post-40 memory loss – is writing down every damn thing that pops in my head, with hopes of later mining this stuff for story…
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More Scrivener Tips
I switched to using Scrivener as my full-time writing tool last year, and still love it. I always had a lot of trouble coming up with a good way to seamlessly manage a bunch of little chunks of writing, and now I have a perfect way to do that. And it’s not trapped in a…
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On writing tools
In my last post, I talked about my old standby writing tool, emacs, and how I’ve made a gradual break from it. So here’s what I’ve been doing. First, there was a recent stream of different full-screen writing tools dumped on the market. It’s the latest fad: some program that closes off everything but a…