PROOFREADING WHILE STILL IN SCRIVENER - PART 2:
Once my novel is now in Chapters and I have proofread it while still in Scrivener, I mark each of the scenes that have exciting events, vampiric events, even humor, to make sure the story is balanced and has events and surprised all throughout the story. Some books I read sag in the middle as everything is gearing up for a big bang at the end.
I like to sprinkle the books with enough to hold everyone's interest. At least that's what I'm trying to do!
I will be starting a new novel soon, and at that point, I will make a video showing this marking of the novel for a greater overview of all that is happening.
COMPILE IN SCRIVENER AND SAVE IN WORD – Name the Document "First Draft of BOOK TITLE".
PROOFREADING IS NOW DONE IN WORD:
- Do an initial spellcheck in word to eliminate any and all errors you may have missed in Scrivener.
- Search for your usual mistakes. Below are an example of mine:
- Awhile (a while)
- going to (clean up verb tense)
- it's (or its? - check)
- draw (drawer)
- beginning to (check for verb tense)
- in order to (check for verb tense)
- going to (check for verb tense)
- starting (check for verb tense)
- Okay (how many times it’s used)
- Just (how many times it's used)
- Really (How many times it's used)
- Very (Find a better descriptive word)
- ." said (check glitch from auto correct)
- ." whispered (check glitch from auto correct)
- and all ly words
- Search all quotes to check for opening and closing quotes.
- Word spell check and Word grammar check.
