Scrivener, lecture et écriture numérique

Over the years I have tried many writing programs. Of them, my favorite by far is Scrivener. I discovered Scrivener less than a year ago, though I had heard of it before that. To put that in Indie publishing perspective, that was about three and half novels ago. I have come to use Scrivener almost exclusively for planning, writing and editing novels. I only switch to another program when I am ready to share my work with an editor or format it for publication.

What is Scrivener?

I wrote here the other day about how you could use multiple project notes in Mac Scrivener to manage a project. One of those uses is for a checklist of things to do. But a to-do list is only really...

Recently, I've been writing shorter pieces and have developed a new workflow in Scrivener. At the beginning of a writing session, I work on the text which I'm prepared to write (i.e. I have all the...

Backing up your stories with Scrivener and DropboxPosted on 2 November 2013 by Kromey

As I have for the last six years (with one exception owing to being in India for the month), this year I am doing NaNoWriMo. The short version? I’m writing a 50,000-word novel in the 30 days of November.

What would happen if my computer were to die on November 29th, just before I hit that goal after working so hard for it all month? Would I crawl into the fetal position and bawl my eyes out like a little baby?

Well, I might, actually, but not because of any work lost on my novel. Thanks to Scrivener and Dropbox, my novel is well in hand and quite securely backed up!

Any reader of this blog will know that I like to compose in Scrivener and, like the name of the company which develops Scrivener (Literature and Latte), I love coffee too. The best place to drink c...

Importing research, images, and web pages into Scrivener is handy, but sometimes creating a reference might be a better option. When might you want to use a reference instead of importing? When you...

Learning to how use the Synopis section in Scrivener s Inspector

I have structured my writing process around small chunks of time.
Here is what I do:

In addition to the  five reasons to write your thesis in Scrivener there is at least one more: Scrivener provides a possibility of seeing and editing concurrently several snippets of texts. It's in...

TeXShop est un éditeur de texte Latex dont j’ai déjà parlé. Je l’utilise principalement pour composer le texte de ma thèse. ...si TeXShop permet le repérage dans le document au moyen d’étiquettes, il n’autorise pas (encore) le libre déplacement des parties du document. Par exemple, on ne peut pas intervertir à volonté les deux sous-parties d’un texte. D’où l’intérêt de combiner l’utilisation de TeXShop à celle d’un autre traitement de texte. Scrivener convient parfaitement à cette combinaison. Sur la capture ci-contre, l’interface de Scrivener. À gauche, la partie consacrée au classement des documents.

Scapple from Literature & Latte, not to be confused with scrapple, a meat dish I’d rather forget I’ve ever heard of, is a handy mind-mapping tool that I have found very useful for brainstorming...

Given that NaNoWriMo is almost upon us I thought I'd share a little writing trick that's helped me heaps. I know you're supposed to write 1,667 words a day for NaNoWriMo but for many of us that's j...