If You Want to Write a Book but You're Stuck
I speak from experience. Thinking ahead to my retirement in another three years, I began thinking about spending my time writing Christian and Catholic-friendly novels as I love to read books by other authors in his genre. I had some idea of what writing a novel would take, but never having studied writing in any detailed way, my first obstacle was where to begin. I was stuck at this spot for awhile and stayed there until I found a writing program called Scrivener.
I "thought about" writing for at least a year but the first hurdle was the biggest => Where to begin? How to even organize my thoughts? Should I write in Word? I couldn't figure out how I could organize or keep track of anything.
Finally, in watching some other "new author" videos on YouTube, several of them were talking about writing in Scrivener, a relatively inexpensive writing tool that was designed specifically for writers. After checking it out, I was sold in less than 10 minutes.
WHY DID SCRIVENER HELP ME OVER THE FIRST HURDLE?
Scrivener is a simple but brilliant program that is designed for writers. It allows you a birds-eye view at all times. You keep your chapters or dates on the left hand side, you write in the middle, and you can outline, add keywords, research notes, reminders, and anything else you find helps you on the right hand side.
It can also be used to help you write and organize a blog website, really anything.
SMALL LEARNING CURVE:
Scrivener is one of these programs that is very comprehensive, but there is not a HUGE learning curve as with programs like Photoshop or Premier Pro Video Software, programs like this. You can get up and running with Scrivener by watching a few ‘how to’ videos that other authors and writers are kind enough to make.
WHAT NOT TO DO:
Once I watched about 10 videos about getting started, I got lost in trying to find a template that would work for me and this turned out to be a complete waste of time. I wound up working with one folder and just text documents that during the draft phase I named by Date and time (which as a new write I am/was obsessed with) and this way, I always knew what day I was in in the story line.
I also spent too long adding a fancy chapter ending that I wound up having to do and redo I can’t tell you how many times and it wound being all for naught. Chapter endings are things you should only worry about when getting ready to publish.
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