The Writing Notebook
How many of you writerly types make and keep up with writing notebooks? As in organizing notebooks, specific to the story you are working on currently. For the first time, I am preparing one to drag around with me instead of relying on keeping things straight in my head. Am curious for those who do use them, what you put in them and why you ( Read more... )
Yup story bible thing. My same friend who knows scrivener inside and out is a story bible freak - she uses notebooks like crazy. I just really need one place online (Scrivener) and one offline (this currently empty notebook). I also yesterday printed off a bunch of stuff from scrivener and put it in a 3 ring binder with tabs - that really is probably most helpful. :) And printed out my first three chapters AND have FORBIDDEN MYSELF to go over them again. They have changed so much in the last month and a half and I am so excited.
Are you writing in German or English for this? Or both - I recently ran across an article where there was a simultaneous release of a novel in English and I think Swedish - not translations, but BOTH versions written by the author themselves. I thought that pretty cool, and I would think both versions would benefit from the author themselves actually doing the two versions rather than someone else interpreting what the Swedish version would be.
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I'm keen on timelines - and I've heard that lot of people use Aeon Timeline for that. Wasn't sure if I wanted to use another program yet so soon - but at least it's compatible with Scrivener.
I had so much stuff to do in December and then I got sick. I honestly can't wait for Christmas to be over and to get back to writing.
I'm writing both novels in German. Writing in English would mean to cut myself off from discussing then with most writers I know here. I couldn't take an English text to the novel coaching seminar I visit each year. So it's more about support and writing groups than preferring German over English. And it means I can't share it with any of my English speaking online friends.
I once tried to translate a short story I've written in German into English. And another time, to translate a fanfic I wrote from English to German. I found it terribly boring. For me, the thrill of telling the story and discovering its words is one and the same. After I've done that once, I don't want to do it again - there's always a feeling that something is lacking in the second text. Kudos to this Swedish author for being able to do both versions. And I really admire the work of translators - it's so much more than simply changing one language for another. There is cultural background and meaning of words and symbols and everything to consider. They don't get paid enough for what they do.
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