GOSH NOT TO BE A BROKEN RECORD but Jez showed me the statistics in Scrivener yesterday and I am hooked. this satisfies the sliver of me that wanted to go into maths.
Over-booked
Ugh. I made the mistake of buying an incredibly practical guide to fleshing out a basic story, and now I’m doing it to a couple of my other ideas that I really like, such as The Myses (yes, I’ve settled on one S). I LOVE the characters. it’s awful how quickly I get attached these days.
Too…many…ideas…
I love Scrivener! I just don’t use it anywhere near as often as I should D: gotta change that.
I just can’t get over how it makes my natural flow of thought work so well! as long as I’ve organized my pages in a way that makes sense when I come back to it, I remember where things are and when one thought begets another, I put it in its proper place.
because especially when worldbuilding for sci-fi or fantasy, it’s easy for designing a train to turn into a case study of the vicious beasts that occasionally hold up the train to the culture of the fearsome thieves who tame those beasts to a plot point where one of those thieves turns on his brothers to how that develops the main character…
and in Scrivener I can just hop from one document to another, attach pictures where visual inspiration is necessary, and piece it all together later with the fantastic organization structure.
EEEEE okay. I could nerd out about this all day.
Perpetuation of planning
so…there is one small downside to Scrivener.
I don’t want to stop using it.
understandably, that’s okay right now. right now, I have eight episodic books to plot. that’s one main protagonist, six points of view, eight sub-genres of sci-fi erotica (really, though, there will be action-adventures, detective stories, romances, the whole shebang), two massive cultures and their intricate societal quirks, and then the first contact with probably four or five other species to keep track of. having Scrivener around is amazing.
I was on a roll last night, cranking out probably 4k words between the eight different plot docs, and the overarching story is much more solidified in my mind now. that being said, I can tell how easy it would be to dive into this software and not resurface until it was past the point of usefulness and straying into that dangerous territory known as procrastination.
for someone obsessed with organization and connections, Scrivener is orgasmic for me. so I’ve got to keep one eye on it and make sure it doesn’t become an obsession.
Adventures in Scrivener
I’ve finally gotten into Scrivener! I’ve now set up my entire universe, including character cards, pictures I’ve saved for reference and inspiration, and all my notes from various devices. I can’t believe I haven’t used this software before. UGH. it’s incredible. it has every feature you never knew you absolutely needed.
my inner organizationy self is so giddy right now. and I can still use my little panda flash drive to transport my projects. YAY.