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Scrivener or writeitnow how to#
It’s a new concept that instead of having a paper third party manual on how to better use the software, as a professional writer of manual-type books I supply much more writing craft ideas and tools than are available elsewhere, and all in WriteItNow itself, which is good software and allows this to happen. I supply the advanced craft tools lacking in non-writer designed software, which includes probably all the software out there. Rob of WriteItNow supports The Writer’s Interface as a good approach using his software. You learn writing craft as well as get your own story craft imagination stimulated. My ideas come from over fifty writing craft books, from my own writing experience and from novels of course.īasically, you review my many lists to go with novel elements, such as plot and character, and you revise and make your own lists using mine for guidance. I am simply a professional writer and these are my notes and structures for writing the novel. It’s quite different from commercial software. It costs a little but saves a lot of time and learning.
Scrivener or writeitnow pdf#
It is my 92,000 words The Writer’s Interface, which is either a pdf file ebook for you, or an interactive file that fits right into WriteItNow. I am quite devoted to WriteItNow and have devised my own writer’s interface to go with it.
Scrivener or writeitnow pro#
STORYCRAFT PRO HAS BEEN ‘UPGRADED’ AND I NO LONGER RECOMMEND IT. (I have no connection with either Stor圜raft Pro or WriteItNow and do not receive any reward for promoting them – I’m just a happy user!)ĮDITED : PLEASE SEE MY COMMENT ATTACHED TO THIS POST. Stor圜raft Pro, on the other hand, can be used time after time, even by advanced writers, and is perfectly capable of producing publishable work. I’m happy to stand corrected on that point if anyone knows otherwise. (That’s Stor圜raft Pro by the way!) I don’t honestly think that any novel solely written using NewNovelist would ever be published, because of the aforementioned lack of depth. The word “new” in the title is the one you ought to pay most attention to – after you’ve written your first novel you’ll be looking for something better. But as far as I’m aware (I’ve read the blurb but not tried it) it still doesn’t have the depth required for professional writing. Version 2 is out now, and I hope it corrects that problem. The first version was also unstable, prone to crashes and losing work.
I’m often also asked my opinion of a piece of software called NewNovelist. With the two programs combined (3 if you count Word, though as I said you don’t really need it) it’s very (very!) fast, very easy, and works like a dream. This method also allows me to write the scenes in any order – which I do! I mark each scene as “completed” in WriteItNow as I finish it, so I can keep track of progress. It’s then just a simple matter of expanding the outline.
I also add any new scenes to WriteItNow.Īfter that I keep WriteItNow running in the background and write the whole thing in Word (out of habit I guess – you can write the whole thing in WriteItNow if you want to as it has a built-in word processor, but I prefer not to). It turns my basic story idea into a mighty epic, fixes any problems with the structure, suggests new scenes that will enhance the story, and creates a complete outline which I export into Word. Then with the basic story idea and characters in mind, I load Stor圜raft Pro, decide what sort of story it is, and fill in the blanks (the online tutor guides you through this process and gives you prompts if you get stuck, though I tend not to use this). Then I enter all the details into WriteItNow to keep everything in one place, and I can easily drop the characters into scenes and see them on the Timeline. I tend to have the major characters in mind already, and I use our own ideas4writers Writing Engines to help flesh them out and make some decisions about which way certain events should go.
I also use it to automatically generate some of the minor characters. I start off in WriteItNow, which looks after the characters, locations, key events, notes and jottings, and so on. A number of you have asked how these two programs can be used together. They fit together perfectly and make writing great fiction very easy indeed. In a recent post I talked about two excellent pieces of software for writers, Stor圜raft Pro and WriteItNow.
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