Since not everyone uses Scrivener, I thought I’d make the text available to the masses by blogging the template here. This is a text version of the character sketch/bio worksheet, the result of crawling the internet and tweaking different versions. This one has everything. Note: You don’t have to fill out each line …
Know the rules before you break them! Created with Scrivener 2.6 Mac Template Version 1.2 Thanks to the assistance of Instagram user writerlydosageofinspiration—an effort by Lelia Strong at The Writer’s Block—the 30 Days/30 Chapters pages, as found somewhere in the NaNoWiMo forums, I was able to get my hands on …
Over the past few years, I have read many articles about self-publishing and the accompanying workload around self-marketing that comes with this decision. One the one hand, a self-published author reaps most of the sales profit. On the other, without a publishing company marketing a self-published author, no will find their books. So, to …
I’m a visual person. Sometimes I need to see a complex idea before I can fully understand it. Believe it or not, word count always seemed daunting to me, and I’m smart. What I mean is, I could never figure it out how long it should or could take to write something the size …
Some time ago Tim and I started listening to podcasts. Suddenly our eyes opened to the amazing reality that we no longer had to listen to the inanity of the radio when driving to and from work and on other trips. As with our music, we could choose what we wanted …
I often wonder how other authors started out and what tools they used to organize their writing. After doing some initial research and reading articles about which software is better for what purpose etc., I set my path out before me. Between my Mac, iPhone and iPad, I’ve assembled a suite …
Recently, I needed a way to dictate thoughts and ideas to my iPhone so that I could easily review them later and incorporate them into my writing. For a short time I used the Voice Memo app, but I became frustrated with the required second step of transcription. It was a waste of …