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My writing workflow
14 years ago
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I mentioned, when I posted Fantasy of Fur, that I'd written a lot of it on my iPad, and I had someone ask me exactly what my writing workflow is/ Now, as I finish writing my latest story, I figured I would take a moment to post how I write my stories.
If you're not a writer, you likely won't find this interesting, and should consider looking at the next person's journal entry. I understand that he/she has a link to a very funny YouTube video!
I use an app on the iPad called "Elements" It's a nice simple text editor that saves your work to DropBox. As I go along, and once I finish, I pull each section up in SimpleText on my Mac, and copy & paste into Scrivener. Along the way, I use an app on the iPad that is called OmniOutliner to keep notes on the various elements, such as Character profiles, locations, etc. I then email it to myself, since it doesn't currently work with DropBox, and then copy the various elements into profile sheets and such in Scrivener. (Supposedly, the author of Scrivener has finally been talked into creating an iOS version of Scrivener, which will greatly streamline and simplify this process.
When I've gotten everything finished, I have Scrivener compile it into an eBook, drag that book into iTunes, and then go through and do my proof-reading in iBooks. There I can highlight and add notes while mobile (I do a lot of the iPad stuff at work, and around), and then make the changes when I get back to Scrivener.
The workflow has been modified since I wrote Fantasy, but it seems to be working well for me. (Once Scrivener comes to the iPad, it'll be mush less convoluted.) You can decide when I finally get to post my next masterpiece (the cute Australian who commissioned it gets first dibs, of course!)
If you're not a writer, you likely won't find this interesting, and should consider looking at the next person's journal entry. I understand that he/she has a link to a very funny YouTube video!
I use an app on the iPad called "Elements" It's a nice simple text editor that saves your work to DropBox. As I go along, and once I finish, I pull each section up in SimpleText on my Mac, and copy & paste into Scrivener. Along the way, I use an app on the iPad that is called OmniOutliner to keep notes on the various elements, such as Character profiles, locations, etc. I then email it to myself, since it doesn't currently work with DropBox, and then copy the various elements into profile sheets and such in Scrivener. (Supposedly, the author of Scrivener has finally been talked into creating an iOS version of Scrivener, which will greatly streamline and simplify this process.
When I've gotten everything finished, I have Scrivener compile it into an eBook, drag that book into iTunes, and then go through and do my proof-reading in iBooks. There I can highlight and add notes while mobile (I do a lot of the iPad stuff at work, and around), and then make the changes when I get back to Scrivener.
The workflow has been modified since I wrote Fantasy, but it seems to be working well for me. (Once Scrivener comes to the iPad, it'll be mush less convoluted.) You can decide when I finally get to post my next masterpiece (the cute Australian who commissioned it gets first dibs, of course!)
My workflow used to include taking a hardcopy, a highlighter and a pen for the editing portion. Kinda liking the eBook better.
Scrivener is a writer's dream, but I need the portability. Hopefully Evernote will work out.
Take your work with you on your iPad or iPhone using Scrivener 2.0’s new synchronisation abilities. Scrivener can now sync with Simplenote, Index Card and apps that use Dropbox such as Notebooks and PlainText. And when you get back to your main computer, just sync again to bring your changes back into your project. You can also share RTF files with collaborators—or just edit work on a computer without Scrivener—and have the changes synced back to your project using the Sync with External Folder feature.
Does this help you any?