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Dec. 9th, 2007 09:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nonionaySo I got Accelerando, by Charlie Stross, to read during post-Nano burnout. I figure if I like it, I'll buy it for my dad. But no, I'm full of productive energy, so poor Accelerando is sitting unloved by my bed.
I typed up my Nano Draft Zero in NeoOffice, but afterwards, I imported it into Scrivener, which I'm kind of in love with. I divided it up into sections (based on pov) which I can easily switch between. That way, I can easily look at a single character's story arc and determine what needs to be done with it. There are several early scenes which I had to skip over, but now, the holes are taking definite shapes, and I'm dropping fragments and notes into them until I have critical mass and can write them. Working with a single, massive text file, if I was reading over a chapter, and realized I needed to mention something earlier, I would just stick a note in a separate file, or in the text and hope I got around to fixing it. Now, there's no scrolling, I just click on the appropriate scene, type what I need, and go right back to where I was. I have Mori open in the background for my notes and massive worldbuilding files, and >mwah!< I am happy. :-)
Hrrr... Of course, I'm procrastinating right now. Avoiding the next big scene which is a literal boatload of people flipping out in ways that I hope will be relevant to the plot.
I typed up my Nano Draft Zero in NeoOffice, but afterwards, I imported it into Scrivener, which I'm kind of in love with. I divided it up into sections (based on pov) which I can easily switch between. That way, I can easily look at a single character's story arc and determine what needs to be done with it. There are several early scenes which I had to skip over, but now, the holes are taking definite shapes, and I'm dropping fragments and notes into them until I have critical mass and can write them. Working with a single, massive text file, if I was reading over a chapter, and realized I needed to mention something earlier, I would just stick a note in a separate file, or in the text and hope I got around to fixing it. Now, there's no scrolling, I just click on the appropriate scene, type what I need, and go right back to where I was. I have Mori open in the background for my notes and massive worldbuilding files, and >mwah!< I am happy. :-)
Hrrr... Of course, I'm procrastinating right now. Avoiding the next big scene which is a literal boatload of people flipping out in ways that I hope will be relevant to the plot.
