I have ended up where I was probably heading all along, the geek’s delight and the nerd’s best friend. I decided to use the spreadsheet in Google Docs.
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So, I turned to the corkboard interface that Scrivener offers. I know that some writers adore this feature of Scrivener, especially when it comes to plotting and revision. This is what my effort looked like. I found that after so many words and so much text, that I wanted something visual in terms of beginning this revision. Although I’m as digital as they get, I investigated all manner of visual revision techniques. I was looking for something that could show me the structure and pace of the novel, virtually at a glance. Oh what a wonderful resource the internet is for writers. Of course I regularly buy books about writing, but sometimes I just want a quick answer to something that’s going on in my WIP. Today’s issue was backstory. In fact, I’m pretty sure he was. “Ariadne, the daughter of King Minos, fell in love with the handsome Theseus the moment she saw him disembark from the boat that had brought the pitiful group of Athenian youths and maidens for the Minotaur. She found a way to talk with him, and declared that she [...] This week has been somewhat of a return to a completely different kind of creative process: photography. Once upon a time, I shot professionally: weddings, portraits, stock, product, industrial; 35mm, medium format. I lugged cameras everywhere. And not just cameras, of course, but lenses, enormous lighting, a cooler for film, cables, batteries, chargers, stands, light meters, and generally two of everything since there was simply no excuse for missing a shot when there was a client. Even the backups had backups. I know that many writing mentors will say that writers have to want to write–it defines them as writers and/or that writers write because they have no other choice. Well, I like to write, but I also like to have food in the freezer and a clean floor and money to spend. Well, I have to confess that I didn’t think it was possible to write an 85,000 word first draft in eight weeks, including one week of plotting. I mostly have NaNoWriMo to thank for it plus a bunch of books about writing, a truckload of great novels I’ve read, a writing course or two, and many hours at the keyboard. Nevertheless, I’m surprised. Perhaps because he was only 18 years old, or perhaps because journalism will do this to you, the style sheet of the Kansas City Star made quite an impression on Ernest Hemingway. He was only there for six months, but later in life he would say that “Those were the best rules I ever learned for the business of writing. I’ve never forgotten them. No man with any talent, who feels and writes truly about the thing he is trying to say, can fail to write well if he abides with them.” |
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