What Is Your Process For Capturing Thoughts For Writing?
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Pat Flynn
4.9 • 638 Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2015
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Today's question comes from Alain, who wants to know how I capture thoughts for my writing process. Share your writing process with #AskPat331. In this episode, I talk about Evernote (https://evernote.com/), Scrivener (https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.php), and Rev (https://www.rev.com/) Do you have a question about the writing process? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/.
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| 0:00.0 | What is up, ask pat.com. |
| 0:07.0 | What is up, everybody? |
| 0:12.0 | Pat Flynn here and welcome to episode 331 of Aspat. |
| 0:15.5 | Thank you so much for turning me today. |
| 0:17.0 | As always, I'm here to help you by answering your online business questions five days a week. |
| 0:20.9 | Thanks so much. |
| 0:21.4 | And here's today's question from Elaine. |
| 0:24.2 | Yo, Pat, it's Elaine from Toronto. |
| 0:27.2 | Thank you for answering my recent question on Ask Pat. |
| 0:30.5 | I've come up with another one. |
| 0:32.2 | Hopefully you'll be able to answer. |
| 0:33.9 | By the way, I just got my Ask Pat t-shirt in the mail yesterday. |
| 0:38.9 | I'm thinking of doing an unboxing video for it or maybe unwrapping the opening the envelope or whatever. |
| 0:46.4 | Anyway, so my question is, I know you're writing a book right now, so I'd like to know when inspiration strikes. |
| 0:54.0 | And, you know, you have this |
| 0:55.9 | idea or this sentence just comes to your mind. This would be perfect in the book. How do you |
| 1:00.8 | capture it? Do you launch Evernote or do you just write it down pen and paper in a journal? Or do you |
| 1:10.3 | maybe use Scrivener and you know go and start |
| 1:14.8 | writing directly in Scrivener? I'd be curious to know what tool or what your process is when |
| 1:22.5 | you want to capture ideas quickly. I know that in Evernote, you can link that to Scrivener like as |
| 1:29.3 | project references, but I don't know. I don't know how you do it, and I'd like to know what's |
| 1:37.8 | working for you. So thanks, and I hope you get to answer this question too. Bye now. |
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