Up till now, my first draft has been housed within a single Microsoft Word document – all sixteen thousand words of it. MS Word has served me well enough thus far, but I\u2019ve a feeling that I need something else, something better, something more writerly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So I\u2019ve made my first cash investment in my writing – I\u2019ve bought Scrivener<\/a> and ported all the work across. It looks much better. Immediately it\u2019s easier to see the individual scenes and to rearrange it, if I so desire. I\u2019ve be able to combine my outline document with my draft too, and it\u2019s notably easier to tinker around with the that outline, and see how that affects the work so far.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n I know there is heaps more to know about Scrivener, so I\u2019m watching the tutorial videos<\/a> in my spare time, and when I say spare time what I really mean is the gaps between the writing, which is itself done in my spare time. In effect I\u2019m learning Scrivener in the spare time of my spare time, which feels pleasantly recursive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I have Scrivener; I\u2019m invested and I\u2019m writing every day. It feels like I\u2019ve become serious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Photo by Jess Bailey<\/a> on Unsplash<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Up till now, my first draft has been housed within a single Microsoft Word document – all sixteen thousand words of it. MS Word has served me well enough thus far, but I\u2019ve a feeling that I need something else, something better, something more writerly. 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