Last week I had a curiously psychogeographical day in London. It was also curiously satisfying. First, I went to get a readers card for the British Library. When I first came to London, in 1985, I also went and got myself a readers card. Back then, the British Library was in the round room in… [Read more…]
December 19, 2011
Comments Off
Spent We are spent,our civility undone,desire squirted out,secretions secreted. What was continent isincontinent.Collectively our seed fell on stony ground. Time to discover what we got for our savings,like, fuck all. We spent jackasses after making babies,lying on our sidesgasping for toys tat toffee ipad laptop clipclop nice shop apple store more. There is always more,it… [Read more…]
December 14, 2011
Comments Off
Yeah, me too.How Punk Rock Led Me Down The Garden Path To The Joys and Perils of Self Publishing – IndieReader Punk was a generation-defining social movement which accidentally gave birth to the fanzine—a Xerox-nourished zygote that slowly grew and mutated—decades later—into independent publishers and POD. The startling realization that you could do things yourself—put… [Read more…]
December 3, 2011
Comments Off
I’m a bit addicted to the Workspace posts on John August’s blog (I assume he’s called John August, it’s at johnaugust.com). It’s all about screenwriters, but screenwriters are writers the same as the rest of us. Plus, I rather fancy some screenwriting at some point in my writing career. This week it was Christine Boylan… [Read more…]
December 1, 2011
I’m writing it! I thought it should exist so I proposed it. For Dummies agreed and a few short weeks later I’m under contract and under pressure. So what am I writing? Well, a book all about Scrivener to help new and not so new users get the most out of it. It’s exciting. Every… [Read more…]
November 19, 2011
⌘ Command Key (Apple Key) ⌥ Option Key (Alt Key) ⇧ Shift Key ⌃ Control Key ↑ Up Arrow Key ↓ Down Arrow Key → Right Arrow Key ← Left Arrow Key ↩ Return Key ⎋ ESC Key (or ESC) ⇥ Tab Key ⌫ Delete Key Here is ever Scrivener keyboard shortcut in alphabetical order.… [Read more…]
November 16, 2011
Comments Off
I like to put research documents right next to the pages that I’m writing. Scrivener likes you to keep them separate. Here’s a way to get round that without making a terrible mess. Keep your research close
November 16, 2011
Comments Off
Scrivener is the perfect management tool for non-linear writing, i.e. you can get the benefits of a non-linear approach without the downsides. In her On Writing blog, Rebecca Blain writes, “When I write linearly, I am able to adjust the events later in the novel due to the events of earlier in the novel,” I… [Read more…]
October 26, 2011
Comments Off
Scrivener has a function that allows you to set up an external (to Scrivener) folder and ‘sync’ all your Scrivener files there. This is a two way process, Scrivener writes the files out to the folder in RTF format and also syncs them back to Scrivener again. This means that you can edit the files… [Read more…]
October 19, 2011
Comments Off
You can track your word count in Scrivener using some funky tools.
January 10, 2012
Comments Off