You can use this free trial version during November, then if you write a novel with it and “win” NaNoWriMo you’ll get 50% off the purchase of a Scrivener license. Here’s an even better reason: There’s a Scrivener “NaNoWriMo” trial download here. I often tell people who aren’t using Scrivener that they really SHOULD be using Scrivener. But this November, I’m standing out from the crowd by NOT writing a novel. It worked out OK, and I might try it again some time. Waaaay back in my twenties I tried this “write a novel in a hurry” thing a couple of times. That’s what the cool kids call National Novel Writing Month. If you troll around on Livejournal this week (a blog platform used only by fiction writers and Russian revolutionaries, these days) you might think every writer who’s writing anything at all is writing a novel. I’m going to go back and forth for a while and think about hos the process is affecting what I’m doing. I’ve seen other writers who say they always do first drafts by hand and then type them in, or they always re-type every new draft from a new, scratch document (rather than editing into an existing document). When I’ve come to some kind of better understanding about the what’s different about my writing or editing processes when I write by hand rather than when I type on a computer, I’ll post about it again. To my mind it’s similar to an artist stepping back from a painting to get a look at it from too far away to actually work on it. I still love Scrivener, and consider it my most important tool, but I’m shifting my stories in and out of Scrivener. Recently I work with pen and paper more and more. ![]() Lately I’m trying to get a handle on how to take advantage of these variances for different effects. It’s almost as if a different part of my brain engages. Whatever the reason, there’s a clear difference in my output.Įven more pronounced than this, though, is the difference between how I edit using a pen, compared to how I edit on the computer. Maybe because I write more slowly than I type, or maybe because the visual feedback is different, or the tactile experience. ![]() I write differently with pen and paper than I do with a computer.
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