:D Thanks! Sometime in December or January I will post more about the process of writing this thing -- I want to make sure I document this process before I forget, you know? But I can't let myself get sucked down that rabbit hole right now.
Definitely document it! You should keep a log or mini diary, but I suppose the snippets here and there on LJ are doing the same job, and as you said, you need to focus elsewhere.
Do you have a plan for your story? I'm always curious - I usually write on whim and not by plan, so these kind of processes are totally foreign.
Also, I added you on my other journal. Hope you don't mind. :))
I usually don't plan my fic at all, but I seem to stall out by 4000 to 6000 words if I do that. So for this story, I outlined -- by which I mean, I wrote a numbered list of 46 scenes, in the approximate order I'm intending to write them. The whole outline is about 1000 words, and I've done some switching of pieces as I go along, but it's still helping a lot. So I think that's the answer for me, if I'm gonna write anything long. :)
Scrivener is seriously the love of my life - my mom bought it for me for my birthday, as my thirty-day free trial was almost up. It's just SO helpful for organizing chapters. I also really love the research section; it's nice being able to have everything collectively right there at once click, and it really helps with world-building, as you can organize fictional holidays, army ranks, country names and descriptions, family trees, etc. Er, at least that's what I do. :P
Ahem, I guess what I meant to say is - yay for Scrivener! :P
Can you copy the whole research section into a second project, in case you have two things going in the same universe?
I have the brand new Windows Scrivener beta, and I'm SO GLAD I didn't get hooked on it before my last Mac died -- I think I started hearing about this awesome program right after I got this computer, and I've been coveting it ever since. :)
I haven't started using the research section myself yet. I had already done some basic outlining for this project before Scrivener was available, and I never got back to doing more planning. So I get to explore that later!
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Do you have a plan for your story? I'm always curious - I usually write on whim and not by plan, so these kind of processes are totally foreign.
Also, I added you on my other journal. Hope you don't mind. :))
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I usually don't plan my fic at all, but I seem to stall out by 4000 to 6000 words if I do that. So for this story, I outlined -- by which I mean, I wrote a numbered list of 46 scenes, in the approximate order I'm intending to write them. The whole outline is about 1000 words, and I've done some switching of pieces as I go along, but it's still helping a lot. So I think that's the answer for me, if I'm gonna write anything long. :)
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Ahem, I guess what I meant to say is - yay for Scrivener! :P
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Can you copy the whole research section into a second project, in case you have two things going in the same universe?
I have the brand new Windows Scrivener beta, and I'm SO GLAD I didn't get hooked on it before my last Mac died -- I think I started hearing about this awesome program right after I got this computer, and I've been coveting it ever since. :)
I haven't started using the research section myself yet. I had already done some basic outlining for this project before Scrivener was available, and I never got back to doing more planning. So I get to explore that later!
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