The WDC NanoLounge

hehehe Yeah, there's a lot there. I changed it to match what I wanted it to be. I put in pictures of the items I was going to use so I could describe them accurately later (faster than finding the images later and pulling them up with a separate program). I put in a brief message about my location (not like I'd forget, but it took time while I was procrastinating). I did put in character sketches as I had a lot of characters in my first NaNo novel and it helped me keep them all straight. It was also handy that I could link them to the chapters they were going to appear in. My chapter notes, where you can do an entire outline or whatever, I put in very brief notes like, "Here's where we meet Kathleen and Joe." That's all I work with, but it helped a lot when the story started falling in to place, but I wasn't ready to write those chapters yet. I have a tendency to jot notes down on paper that then tends to get lost. Having it all in a single program like that where I could quickly switch from chapter to chapter helped a lot.

I'll admit it took me awhile to figure it out. It's bewildering at first look. But worked well once I got into it and just fiddled until I got it. However! If you know Word will work better for you, then that's definitely the way you should go. To tell you the truth, I'm not a major planner. So its array of things it can do is more than I need. I just thought it was spiffy to use a novel writing software to write my first novel. And, for another "secret," the rewrite I'm doing on it now is being done in Word. In some ways, it might just be a psychological thing with me, to use novel writing software to write a novel. It just seems "right." That's why I want to get my hands on the new Scrivener this year. It may or may not be more along the lines of what I want, or it could end up being massive over kill. Until I try it out, I won't know.

Erin
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