I’m in the middle of a Scrivener trial.
Day sixteen.
I love writing in Word but after years of listening to anecdotes about software to handle long unwieldy manuscripts, plus feeling the strain of mine, I’m taking the leap.
Trialing the leap actually.
It’s a thirty-day trial and each of these days starts the moment I double click on the icon. I don’t need to block out thirty consecutive days. A big plus for me. My writing time doesn’t work like that (unfortunately).
What I like?
Inside I’ve broken my manuscript chapters further down into scenes. Love it!
With too much backstory upfront, I can now see (on the screen) where to break it up and drip feed in later.
Scenes are easier to edit. I’m asking questions like: does this scene have a purpose? Is it moving the story forward or is it just a filler (delete!).
I could ask these same questions in Word but I couldn’t ‘see’ my scenes summarised.
The single point of view (POV) has troubled me throughout my sixth draft. My gut was telling me that the main guy, needed a voice on the page too.
With a scene listing I can see exactly where his POV needs to be written.
So much better than the endless scroll back and forward in Word through twenty-eight chapters.
It’s like playing with a new toy. So much fun!
I love the scene synopsis feature in its at-a-glance corkboard view. I know I’m only using a fraction of what Scrivener can do, but what I am using so far is great.
So far so good. It’s winning me over one day at a time.
14 days to go…