I was new to Scrivener for NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) in November last year. I had previously written in Word, however that had a tendency to make it hard to keep all the folders and files together. Scrivener changed all that. Suddenly I could write a novel, a short story and keep character sheets … Continue reading
Remembering character information
By the end of book 1 – Library of Time – I had about 30 names to remember. It helped that I picked most of them with a botanical theme in mind as that gave me some clues to remember the names. However, what really helped was creating character sheets in scrivener. There’s a location … Continue reading
Library of Time
Library of Time is an urban fantasy about a librarian who has walked away from the magical world to make her way in the city of Seattle. She’s hiding a part of a magical library for her long time teacher. What could possibly go wrong? The teacher goes missing under mysterious circumstances, the missing library … Continue reading
Promotion: Child of Time
Just for tomorrow, Monday March 2nd, in order to get reviews, Child of Time is FREE. Go get your copy and please review it on amazon if you like it. thanks Ria
Writing process – top 10 ways of finding grammar errors
Grammar errors are one of the most pesky things to eradicate in the writing process. Scrivener doesn’t find grammar mistakes, and while MS Word is pretty good at finding normal passive errors, it fails to recognize idiom. Language is changing. Sentences can and often do start with ‘and, but, or, though’ in colloquial use. If … Continue reading
Writing process – the first edits
There are a few different notions floating around about how to edit a story. Rachel Aaron talks about an arc for each chapter, an arc for a book, and another arc over a series. I agree with her about having a structure, however, I like to be a bit more organic and varied about it … Continue reading
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