All tooled up and ready to write? Only hours to go and this post is to make sure you have everything at your fingertips for the 30 days of November. Complete your planning If you are a pantser - this will be a very quick process! If you are a planner, your outline will provide you with prompts for every day. The scene synopsis will guide you through what was to be your storyline. It's...
Time for the Kick-OFF! This week is a Kick-Off week for NaNoWriMo. When you sign up to the NaNoWriMo site and choose your region, you'll find you have an ML - and that person is responsible for organizing meetings before, during and after NaNo. I'm ML for Europe :: England :: Cornwall. What is the KICK-OFF? The KO (short for Kick-Off) is the official start of NaNo preparation in the run-up to the month of...
Today's guest is Erin McIntyre, author of the Red King Trilogy. Erin's first novel, The Phantom of Faerie Mountain won 1st place in YA Fiction for the 2016 Purple Dragonfly awards and Silver placement for YA Mystery in the 2016 Readers’ Favourite awards. The Red King Trilogy comprises: The Phantom of Faerie Mountain The Secret of Berry Brae Circle The Talisman of Darktree Hollow How did you get into novel writing? Though, as a...
My guest today is Patsy Collins - The traveling writer! Patsy and I are hosting a Writers' Workshop Weekend in Hope Cove next March - and there's an early bird offer on this month. Book now to save £20 on the tuition fee. Between now and then, Patsy has a new book out, we are both looking forward to NaNoWriMo, and, today, we're talking about travel and research ...
Metadata - The editor's friend! Metadata becomes essential at the editing stage but, for many writers, after Compile, Metadata is the Scrivener feature which is powerful and yet - for some - daunting. I think that's because there are so many options to consider! Let's do it ...
Today's guest is Kay Kukoyi. You've met Kay before: she was my guest in January 2017 and then again in June 2017. Kay is a huge fan of Scrivener and has used it for several books now: Don’t Hire a Software Developer Until You Read this Book Develop Your Idea! Don’t Buy Software For Your Small Business Until You Read This Book And now Kay Kukoyi has published her fourth book: Entrepreneurial Espresso. I'm most honoured to feature in...
For those of you eager to get started, NaNoWriMo doors are now open. Time to sign up! Registered for NaNoWriMo before? If you have registered before, there should be an email invitation in your Inbox. Click on the Announce your 2017 NaNoWriMo novel now button. And this is where you'll land - except it'll be your novel page, not mine! New to NaNoWriMo? Go to www.nanowrimo.org and sign up. Once you’ve registered, buddy up with me. My...
Outlining is best done using the Corkboard in Scrivener Each to their own, but, when I start writing a novel, I like using Scrivener from the outset, for the outlining stage. I know other writers who start on paper and, only when they can see the whole plot, do they start setting up the structure, electronically. And there are other software tools, too. But for me, it's Scrivener from start to finish! One scene...
Anna K Payne My guest today is the author of the newly published Planted Flowers Bible Study Workbook. When did you first start using Scrivener? In 2010, I published the first of my devotional books to CreateSpace using a Word template. It was the worst experience of my life. There had to be an easier way! Then I discovered Scrivener after participating in NaNoWriMo in 2011. Its Compile function promised to make it easy...
