Combining Two Rough Drafts into One Novel – Part 2

Last time I posted, I stated I was working on combining two similar stories into one novel. I’ve been trying to focus solely on the first revision for the past week. Of course, kids and life refused to let me focus as completely as I would have liked, but I’ve made some progress. As I mentioned previously, I have a …

Combining Two Rough Drafts into One Novel

Hoo boy! I’ve decided to combine two rough drafts into one novel. I currently have about 300 pages from the manuscripts printed out and have to figure out how I’m going to make this into one cohesive novel. I’ve spent days online trying to find a guide how to do this. Apparently, no one else has ever had the brilliant …

Revising a novel

I struggle with revisions. Every time I start revising a novel, I spend time looking for a magic method, a checklist of things to do, and I keep looking until I think I’ve found the perfect plan. Then I print out my manuscript and start marking stuff up with my pen and the plan goes out the window. I have …

Scrivener Revisited

Okay. I admit it. I was wrong. I’m not 100% sold yet, but I’m still playing with Scrivener and I’ve found some features I really like that are not available on OneNote. Word count. I love knowing how many words I have in a document. In OneNote, I had to use an Add-on to get word counts, and it still only counted …

Scrivener or OneNote

Are you contemplating whether to purchase Scrivener to plan and write your novel on Windows? You may already have OneNote on your computer. So which should you use, Scrivener or OneNote? I tried Scrivener again last night. I couldn’t even make it through the tutorial before I was confused beyond words. I hear there are some neat features on it, …

Microsoft OneNote

I’ve never been a fan of Microsoft or their products. However, I have a new laptop with Windows 7 on it because my MacBook Pro died and I couldn’t justify spending a couple grand on a new MBP when I have a nice iMac (I’m quite loyal to Apple products.) Anyway, I’m quite happy with my $500 Lenovo ThinkPad, but …