Ep. 251: My Writing Process, Pt. 2 of 2: How I Use Scrivener to Write My First Drafts
Helping Writers Become Authors
K.M. Weiland
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2015
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Here's what my daily writing process looks like when using Scrivener for my first drafts.
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| 0:16.5 | This is K.M. Ireland and you are listening to the 291st episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors Podcast. |
| 0:21.1 | On April 28th at 1 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, I will be presenting the webinar structuring your novel, |
| 0:23.9 | discover the proven blueprint for creating stories that sell for Writers Digest |
| 0:29.5 | University. I hope you'll be able to join us. I'll be talking about all the major structural moments |
| 0:36.0 | necessary to write an amazing story, as well as answering your live questions. Even better, |
| 0:42.0 | every participant is guaranteed a free critique from me. |
| 0:44.8 | I'll have an overview of your story structure. Hope to see you there. You can sign up by |
| 0:50.0 | visiting my site at helping writers become authors. |
| 0:53.2 | com. |
| 0:54.2 | Look for the webinar announcement on the top of the home page. |
| 0:58.0 | You can sign up by visiting my site at helping writers become authors.com. The latest post in the video series on my blog |
| 1:05.2 | is How to Make Readers a Love an Un likable Character and Hate A Likeable One. |
| 1:12.1 | It discusses one important make or breakaway that can influence |
| 1:16.2 | readers opinions in deciding whether you've created a likable character or an unlikable character. To find the post visit my site at |
| 1:25.3 | helping writers become authors.com. And now I hope you enjoyed this week's |
| 1:30.3 | podcast entitled My Writing Process Part 2, how I use Scrivener to write my first |
| 1:37.1 | drafts. What's better than writing software that helps you outline your not false? |
| 1:45.2 | How about writing software that also helps you write? |
| 1:49.8 | That's where the program Scrivener takes its whole game up a notch, unlike other programs that are really only handy for one or the other. |
| 1:58.0 | Scrivener offers amazing tools for both outlining and drafting and does it all in one place so the two are super easy |
| 2:06.7 | to integrate within your overall writing process. Last week I showed you how I used Scrivenor to outline my novels. Today I'm going to show you how I take all those important notes and turn them into an honest to gravy book. |
| 2:23.1 | I'll be using my historical superhero work and progress |
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