I'm beginning to feel I'm invisible.
I send messages on FB and no one responds. Usually these are fairly important messages, too, needing a response rather soon. It's apparent by the messages that they're important. And weeks pass and nada.
I'm not really a person to send multiple follow-up messages, because I think it's rude and pushy. I'm not rude and pushy. I just want a fracking answer before the godsdamned apocalypse.
I want to bitch about it in more detail, but that won't do much more than just spread around negativity. So I'm just going to take a deep breath, play some tunes, and start fooling around with Scrivener. (I've just downloaded it and am going to try it with the rewriting of my novel -- if I like it enough, I'll purchase it. So far it's doing really well in my estimation.)
Our modern social media has made us completely unable to deal with the real world. I say that being a person who prefers social media to face to face interaction in most cases.
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Oh, man -- guilty twinges. We are all grateful for a forgiving JJ that can rise above FB blunders.
Soooo, Scrivener -- a writing-program, I take it? What sets it apart?
Aww, this wasn't directed at you specifically. I've just been trying to figure some stuff out and the people I need to talk to about it are less-than-present.
Anyway.
Scivener -- yes. Writing program. SO many features. You can write novels, screenplays, poetry, whatever really with it. In the novel setting (which I'm using) you keep each chapter separate but there's the option to view it all as one document if you need to, which yWriter5 doesn't do.
There's also meta-data for each chapter, which you can customize as much as you want -- you can have the POV, date, themes, synopsis...possibilities are endless, really. You can then search within specific labels (say, POV) for what you're looking for. (So, if I wanted to find all of my chapters from Ghia's point of view, instead of searching for "Ghia" in one huge document, which is completely useless, I search under Custom Meta-Data: Ghia, and it'll show me all the chapters from her POV.)
There's also the corkboard view, which shows all your chapters as index cards with synopses on them.
You also have the research section, and the ability to pull up a bit of research (like a picture, a video, or a PDF, or whatever) alongside what you're working on currently. There's a really good footnotes/comments function that will, when you export to document form, turn your footnotes into actual footnotes.
You can write in whatever font you want, because when you compile/export, you can change it to the accepted format easily.
The "Snapshots" feature is pretty awesome too -- you can take a snapshot of a chapter before completely rewriting it, and then if you decide you like the original better you can rollback to that snapshot.
What made me try it was this blogpost: http://www.thebookdesigner.com/2011/08/scrivener-the-ultimate-multitool-for-writers/
If you do give it a try, read the tutorial. It's not *complicated* but it is dense, and worth it to explore everything in the tutorial before doing your own stuff.
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