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god forbid a girl have a secret identity. smh
How I use Scrivener for plotting AND querying
Hello! A.J. here. I was chatting in one of my writers’ groups the other day about how I organize my Scrivener files for fiction projects and wanted to compile all that information in one place, so other people could benefit too! I’ve also made a Scrivener Template with all the features I mention below over on a (free) Patreon.
I start by using Scrivener’s “Novel (with parts)” template. This allows you to nestle Scenes within Chapters within Parts within your main Manuscript. I number my Chapters, as I find it hard not knowing what number I’m on, and then if I need to switch content around, I drag-and-drop the Scenes rather than the entire Chapter folder.
i love fake plot holes
little inconsistencies that at first you assume "oh, the author must have fucked up", but then later on you realize that no, it was on purpose, they wanted you to think they fucked up but they hadnt
related: when you think "this has Implications the author didn't think about" and then it turns out the author was thinking about them the whole time
As an author this is my favourite thing to do to people. It feels like cheating and I love cheating.
It does have one horrible side effect though, which is that after your readers have shrugged, politely overlooked and forgotten a couple of tiny "plot holes" only for you to shank them in the back later using them as deliberate clues for a twist, you never get a real tiny plot hole overlooked again, because you have trained readers to treat every inconsistency they can find as deeply complex foreshadowing and they will actively seek and memorise them.
Okay but consider: that makes for really good stories.
I don't think you guys understand how much of my writing process involves sitting alone and staring into the void
A writer's relationship with their own work goes: this is genius, this is garbage, this is genius, this is garbage, i should never have been born, okay actually this line is good
“Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.”
— C.S. Lewis
oops! i married my mortal enemy!
audiences have no idea how to be uncomfortable anymore
watch movies that make you uncomfortable read books that make you uncomfortable go to plays that make you uncomfortable watch tv that makes you uncomfortable look at paintings and sculpture and artwork that makes you uncomfortable. it is spiritually and morally and ethically and artistically really really good for you. think about why you are uncomfortable. what biases do you bring to art? what biases does the art bring to you? how do you reconcile this? how does your worldview grow and expand and change? all this and more will be answered and available to you if you just engage with art that does not coddle you and treats you like an intelligent human being that can sit through discomfort
worldbuilding is just asking yourself “but why” until you cry.
writing is so funny because i could write nonstop for 9hrs and then hit a block where im like "how do i transition between this moment and the next?" and then i just dont touch it for 6 months
It is so annoying when authors try to make their characters seem tough by making them sleep deprived and then just having them "power through it" with no side effects besides feeling REALLY tired. Your characters had five hours of sleep over three days, they're not just "tired". They're forgetting shit. They're passing out at random moments. They're probably hallucinating. And they are certainly not going to win a fight when their reaction time is somewhere between "next Tuesday" and "never".
sometimes the best writing advice is "just let it be bad." revolutionary. terrifying. but it works.
the dialogue tag that goes the hardest?
[blank] lied.
writing is fun but have you tried lying in the dark and thinking about writing? way easier and almost 100% less productive :DD
changing your mind about stuff over time is embarrassingggg but especially when it happens in relatively short time and then u have to be like oh yeah that thing i said 4 months ago? i don’t believe any of that anymore. yeah i know i sounded really confident at the time my bad.
"just write a little every day" ok but what if i write nothing for 3 weeks and then suddenly type like i’m being hunted by god
75% of writing is convincing yourself that your story is worth it
It is. In case you were wondering. Your story is worth the effort you are putting into it. It’s an amazing thing because you are writing it.