I bought Scrivener!

Today I used my 50% off coupon from winning NaNo to purchase the
Scrivener writing program. I've spent most of today watching tutorials and setting up with my novel format.

I ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT!!

This program was made for planners. Recently it's been hard for me to keep track of my outline, notes, character profiles by flipping through various Microsoft docs while writing. This program keeps it all in one place. I can make notes on everything! I love notes :D

I have so much freedom to continue writing now, I feel so giddy! Those virtual note cards are so cute. Rewriting my outline with note cards and little documents in Scrivener has also helped me to consolidate everything  - now I can delve quicker into conflicts and I added more of those as well. Like, a new character that commands a band of daemon hunters!

I've gone from a 32 chapter novel back down to 29 chapters, at the same time while adding more content. Maybe just the better visualization of my novel structure was all I needed to get my inspiration back!

Now that my Scrivener project is setup, I still need to copy my text into the appropriate sections and find out what my new total word count is. I'm only going to copy the writing that I like, without any strikeouts! That will be left in my Word docs and I'll continue to fix those up later. (I still need to figure out a really funny and failed proposal attempt for Isaac!)

My next blog will post my word counts and progress with Scrivener. From then on, I feel more than confident to continue writing on my novel. It needs to be finished and now I'm so excited to continue!!! Yay!!!