On goals, the road to them, and life in between.
“Pursuing being better lead me to the therapy of writing. Through writing, I’ve been able to have synapses connect and connect with people who inspire and teach me. I’m a better person for it. Now, writing is something I do because I have to.Writing has become a solace for me… Writing has become a burden for me.”
Read my brother Nick’s post on writing called For the Sake of Becoming.
You know the moment, you’ve got this image in your mind of how the scene should play out. You can feel the emotions, you’ve got the best lines… but you’re on the metro and you’ve got to get it down.
Evernote has saved many of these scenes for me. I recently tried out Byword which is also a great app because it syncs through Dropbox.
I wanted to point you to a post from the Evernote Life Blog about how an employee/novelist keeps track of his writing using Evernote. He says he uses Evernote to:
What about you, writers? What do you use?
I found out about Scrivener through Nanowrimo a few years ago. I can’t really imagine my life without it. It’s so unbelievably handy for writing a novel, a book, or even for keeping a blog. I have a blog called The Righteousness Project this year that did a bunch of research into themes, kind of like the Happiness Project did. I would have gone mental without Scrivener. It neatly held all my research, my links, my files, PDFs and kept them all nice and tidy. And then I had all my drafts and plans nicely divided by month/topic etc. Glorious.
I got a deal thanks to Nano and now would have zero problem paying whatever the full price is for this thing. I highly recommend it if you want to keep your wits about you when you write and manage a bunch of info. It’s far more powerful as a program than you might think you’d need, but man are those features great.
This year you can get 50% off Scrivener if you win Nanowrimo, and get 20% off for all participants. Check it out here.
