I miss the good old days before the baby (writing-wise, at least). I’d roll out of bed, eat breakfast, and then write until I was finished for the day. I was pretty good at setting goals and getting work done, until I became pregnant. Then writing was very difficult. I had trouble thinking and forming sentences. My creative brain was gone. Thankfully it came back when the baby was born! To say it’s been tricky getting work done while watching my 7 month old is a bit of an und

Hooray! I successfully figured out how to completely screw up my manuscript! I hit command-k thinking it would bring up keywords on Scrivener and accidentally split two of my cards. Not a big deal, (and I should probably change the shortcuts) but then I highlighted both cards on the text part of the screen (not realizing on that I had all of my cards selected on the left side of the screen) and accidentally merged ALL of my scenes. A dialogue box popped up that said basically

(yes, it’s been a while since i sat down to work on this project) I implemented some of the suggestions posted by someone at Scrivener to the blogger version of my blog. So far so good. I basically renamed “Labels” to be “Draft” and renamed “Status” to be Labels (which I still haven’t found a use for). I also changed it so that in full screen mode, I don’t have weird colored sections, which is nice (though I thought this feature was fairly hidden by calling the option “aterna

What I was doing before was using Word and saving my manuscript in one file, my outline/to do notes in another word file (in notebook mode), and all of my research in yet another file (also in notebook mode). I wanted to see if having everything in one file might help things a bit more (and I like playing with new software). I had also hoped Scrivener would help with my outlining, which I like to do as I go along. My husband pointed out that I *could* use Word’s outline view