Scrivener, lecture et écriture numérique

When inspiration comes, it seldom comes orderly. It's usually a collection of random thoughts that require organization to become something useful. Sometimes you can think it though just in your heads, but more than often you need to write things down and sort them out visually. In this tutorial I'll show you how Scapple brings order to your chaos. | Difficulty: Beginner; Length: Medium; Tags: App Training

Isn’t Scrivener just the best writing app in the world?  It is so versatile and reasonably priced.  Many different sorts of writers use it for lots of kinds of work.  Personally, I’ve got the start of a Young Adult (YA) novel on the go, using the standard novel template that comes with Scrivener.  But what I really love to write are children’s picture books. Scrivener doesn’t come with a picture book template and I couldn’t find one online, so I made my own which I’m happy to share with you here on my blog:

A good technical blog post includes planning, setting objectives and research, which happens before any writing takes place. Here's how I do it.

Now, Scrivener can also sync using rich text format (RTF) as well as plain text; but as Scrivener’s documentation notes, you pretty much need to use plain text on an iPad, because there are no editors that do rich text and will sync properly with Scrivener.

Except that now, there’s Textilus, a rich text editor that (in its paid version) syncs with DropBox and targets integration with Scrivener.

So Tim recently suggested that I try out this new writing program that he had been working on to write his technical book. It's called Scrivener and it was recently ported to Windows OS. I was, at ...

Scrivener is an app for the process of writing — by which I mean that it is structured to assist you as you play with and tentatively commit yourself to ideas and chunks of text — paragraph-, section- or chapter-level chunks of text — move them around, look for associations between them, identify where you are going and gradually discern a shape in the vague swirl of thoughts you started with. Scrivener helps with outlining, storyboarding, keywords, linking draft text with resources and much more. Having worked with Scrivener for a little over a year I am at a loss to see how you can possibly keep track of a major piece of work, be it a novel or a dissertation, in a standard word-processor. Most serious writers maintain boxes of index cards, cork-boards, white-boards, pieces of coloured wool linking the pictures plastered all over the wall of their study .... Scrivener does all that for you.

A comparison of MS Word and Scrivener, also a bit about a new app that might make your life a lot easier. By author and editor Jo Michaels.

Comme je l’écris dans ma prise en main de Microsoft Office pour iPad (à lire sur MacG, voyez la partie « Bureautique, ça veut dire « sur du papier » ? ») une des choses assez décevante dans cette première version de Word pour iPad ce n’est pas tant qu’il ne puisse pas imprimer (ce sera vite corrigé) mais bien qu’il prenne si peupas du tout en compte les usages bureautique purement numériques : création d’ePub/Mobi ou de PDF et publication en ligne, sur un blog ou directement en HTML.

C’est d’autant plus dommage que la version Windows de Word permet depuis plusieurs années de publier sur un blog.

Having traditionally published two books, I field a lot of questions from writers about how I manage my book projects, what kinds of software I use, and what my schedule looks like. Here’s a brief summary of my process.