![]() ![]() So what are our choices? Even as a pantser who doesn’t fill out beat sheets ahead of time, I still like vaguely keeping track of my word count while I draft so I stay on track. The Choice: Doing Math or Bouncing between Programs That means any target word counts in Scrivener have to be calculated and entered manually. (If I’m wrong, someone please correct me.) Simply put, Scrivener’s a word processing application, not a math-based spreadsheet. Scrivener (as far as I know) doesn’t have a function for calculating how many words each section should contain based on assigned percentages of the total word count. *raises hand* The beat sheets on my site all have “auto-math.” We fill in the estimated word count of our story and all the word counts of the beats-the story events-will automatically populate. Many writers don’t like dealing with math. I’d love to hear about other methods in the comments so I can learn too. I’m going to reiterate that I am not an expert in Scrivener, so there might be easier and/or better ways to do what I’ve done. That’s a great question, so I wanted to share some of what came out of that discussion here. Last week, Samir Ramos asked me on Facebook if I had any tricks for using Scrivener with beat sheets. Yet I’m also a source of beat sheets popular with plotters. And my pantsing ways means that I don’t do a lot of planning-much less plotting-ahead of time. I don’t bother putting my research or notes into the program as I draft (I currently use MS OneNote for most of that). But part of it is because I write by the seat of my pants. Part of my issue is I haven’t used it for ebook formatting yet. Honestly, I use about 1% of Scrivener’s capabilities and have probably forgotten more than I remember about it. ![]() They can lay out their scenes with virtual index cards, capture their research information, and create character sheets, all in one program. Many writers like Scrivener ( Windows and Mac) for its organizational features. Do you use the Scrivener program for your writing? Many writers do, especially as Scrivener sponsors NaNoWriMo and offers a discount to participants. I started using Scrivener for my NaNo drafting last year and was able to buy the program at half-off because of my NaNo win. ![]()
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