LiNoWriMo Litopia Novel Writing Month (LiMoWriMo)

[Nikky Lee]

I've been sorting through my reader's notes and brainstorming and making my own notes. So many notes.

Going through the process of copying my now revised chapters from a word doc (what my reader got) back into scrivener. Ugh. There's got to be a better way? Anyone? If you use Scrivener, how do you go back to that after revising a reader's word doc?

I've copied part 1 of 3, painstakingly keeping the comments. Editing small bits and thinking about bigger bits. Maybe the arduous process is good as it gives me time to ponder.

I'm an MS Word gal, so I'm not 100% sure I've understood this correctly, but surely there must be a function that let's you import so you don't loose the comments?

 

[LJ Beck]

I'm an MS Word gal, so I'm not 100% sure I've understood this correctly, but surely there must be a function that let's you import so you don't loose the comments?

They come in as just a [1] where the comment should be, and then the actual comments are just plunked at the bottom of the chapter in the text.

AND... I have to copy/paste each chapter separately, and reformat it once pasted.

I need to investigate more. But the compile features are not brilliant, so I'm anticipating that the import is also not great.

Sadness, as I love Scrivener to work in. I will persevere.

 

[Jonny]

I use Scrivener from time to time, Lyse, but if I have one gripe with it, it's that it can be cumbersome from an operational point of view.

I love its versatility in terms of organising a project completely inside Scrivener, but I too get frustrated when I have exported to Word for a specific reason and then want to put it back into Scrivener. I normally just cut and paste but have never tried to import the notes of others who have commented on the Word doc. version.

I honestly don't know how you can do what you want to in a more user-friendly shorthand way. Possibly @RK Wallis might know as she's more au fait with its workings than I am.

 

[Barbara]

I'd like to join but I'm not sure I should. I need to delete words, not add them.

 

[Sedayne]

I'd like to join but I'm not sure I should. I need to delete words, not add them.

Me too. I never have a problem adding words but would like to shed a few thousand. Maybe we should do a reverse LiNoWriMo.

 

[LJ Beck]

I use Scrivener from time to time, Lyse, but if I have one gripe with it, it's that it can be cumbersome from an operational point of view.

I love it's versatility in terms of organising a project completely inside Scrivener, but I too get frustrated when I have exported to Word for a specific reason and then want to put it back into Scrivener. I normally just cut and paste but have never tried to import the notes of others who have commented on the Word doc. version.

I honestly don't know how you can do what you want to in a more user-friendly shorthand way. Possibly @RK Wallis might know as she's more au fait with its workings than I am.

Yeah, it's an awesome software, but it has it's drawbacks. I would also like a more robust spelling/grammar checker. I just did a little digging and I found how to import a whole novel, splitting it automatically into chapters but nothing about the comments. I don't think it's built for that, although... it should be as there's a place in Scrivener specifically for comments! So it would just need a little more code to recognize the word comments and convert them to scrivener comments. Like come on Literature & Latte peps, feature upgrade please!

Me too. I never have a problem adding words but would like to shed a few thousand. Maybe we should do a reverse LiNoWriMo.

Or a sidestep... I need different words.

 

[Becca T]

I'd like to join but I'm not sure I should. I need to delete words, not add them.

Then be a dark horse and make yourself a deletion goal. You could track how many words you delete.

 

[MattScho]

I'd like to join but I'm not sure I should. I need to delete words, not add them.

Writing ain't writing. Rewriting is writing. cutting is rewriting

 

[Bloo]

I'd like to join but I'm not sure I should. I need to delete words, not add them.

Me too. I never have a problem adding words but would like to shed a few thousand. Maybe we should do a reverse LiNoWriMo.

Absolute values were made for problems such as this.

 

[Bloo]

Then be a dark horse and make yourself a deletion goal. You could track how many words you delete.

Dark horse or black sheep?

Baa

 

[RK Wallis]

I've been sorting through my reader's notes and brainstorming and making my own notes. So many notes.

Going through the process of copying my now revised chapters from a word doc (what my reader got) back into scrivener. Ugh. There's got to be a better way? Anyone? If you use Scrivener, how do you go back to that after revising a reader's word doc?

I've copied part 1 of 3, painstakingly keeping the comments. Editing small bits and thinking about bigger bits. Maybe the arduous process is good as it gives me time to ponder.

The good thing is I know it's possible. I used to watch a self published author on Youtube and he'd do it with his editor's comments. The bad thing is I don't know how and with Scrivener how one explains how to do things depends on if you use Mac or PC. I use PC. How about you?

 

[Jonny]

Hi Lyse,

I did a bit of mooching around and found this blog post which sounds like it might possibly be in the area of your issue. Not sure though.

If being honest, every time I try to find something technical regarding Scrivener, it almost immediately starts phasing me with a lot of technobabble. So in the end I simply use it as a project complier - word processor. I will swap documents between Word & Scrivener both ways, not including comments, but after that I give up.

Hope this helps.

@LJ Beck

How to Import Word Comments into Scrivener

Photo credit: MIKI Yoshihito (´･ω･) on Flickr UPDATE: I have since learned (thanks to a commenter and some experimenting) that you can...

avajae.blogspot.com

 

[Pamela Jo]

Day one and Day two fell victim to the chaos vortex that's been hovering above me for several months. I did find some publishers and agents have opened to submissions and thought about writing. Today will determine whether I am truly in or out.

 

[Claire G]

850 words written this morning. First 200 hundred were like pulling teeth though. Last night's Huddle feedback gave me a lot of food for thought so I've been working on implementing a few changes. Thanks to all who were there! xx

 

[Barbara]

Okay, I'm doing reverse LiNoWriMo and delete words.

Project. Mia
Current word count: 104,049 (Yikes)
Aim: Delete 15,000 - not much, I know, but hey, deleting is hard, and anyway, every deleted word counts at least double, right?

 

[LJ Beck]

The good thing is I know it's possible. I used to watch a self published author on Youtube and he'd do it with his editor's comments. The bad thing is I don't know how and with Scrivener how one explains how to do things depends on if you use Mac or PC. I use PC. How about you?

Thanks! I use Mac. I'll do some more digging around. Although Jonny seems like he's found a way!

 

[LJ Beck]

Hi Lyse,

I did a bit of mooching around and found this blog post which sounds like it might possibly be in the area of your issue. Not sure though.

If being honest, every time I try to find something technical regarding Scrivener, it almost immediately starts phasing me with a lot of technobabble. So in the end I simply use it as a project complier - word processor. I will swap documents between Word & Scrivener both ways, not including comments, but after that I give up.

Hope this helps.

@LJ Beck

How to Import Word Comments into Scrivener

Photo credit: MIKI Yoshihito (´･ω･) on Flickr UPDATE: I have since learned (thanks to a commenter and some experimenting) that you can...

avajae.blogspot.com

OMG OMG OMG!!!! You cracked the case Jonny! This worked. I mean it worked 90% which is amazing. I have a little clean up to do but you saved me days of arduous copy and pasting. THANK YOU!!

AND.... done. All cleaned up and ready to go in Scrivener now. Amazing.

 

[Jonny]

OMG OMG OMG!!!! You cracked the case Jonny! This worked. I mean it worked 90% which is amazing. I have a little clean up to do but you saved me days of arduous copy and pasting. THANK YOU!!

AND.... done. All cleaned up and ready to go in Scrivener now. Amazing.

Hey... it's what I do.


Happy it worked. Fabulous.

 

[RK Wallis]

OMG OMG OMG!!!! You cracked the case Jonny! This worked. I mean it worked 90% which is amazing. I have a little clean up to do but you saved me days of arduous copy and pasting. THANK YOU!!

AND.... done. All cleaned up and ready to go in Scrivener now. Amazing.

Fantastic! Good detective work @Jonny God I LOVE Scrivener!!!

 

[Bloo]

I had a massive headache yesterday, so no writing. I think eyestrain may have contributed to it.

I put in a thousand words today. Here's how the scene starts...

The Pindad SPR-4 is one hell of a sniper rifle, or Senapan Penembak Runduk.

 

[Aethalope]

I had a massive headache yesterday, so no writing. I think eyestrain may have contributed to it.

I put in a thousand words today. Here's how the scene starts...

The Pindad SPR-4 is one hell of a sniper rifle, or Senapan Penembak Runduk.

I had to Google runduk and I am so glad I did

 

[Nikky Lee]

Fantastic! Good detective work @Jonny God I LOVE Scrivener!!!

I could have sworn we had a Scrivenor help thread on here. Maybe time to resurrect it or start a new one?

Update: Another 1,400 yesterday, bringing me up to 2.8k so far for the month and 21.7k on the draft (180,000 to go, because epic fantasy... yay... (╥﹏╥))

 

[Claire G]

Lots of tinkering followed by 900 new words.

 

[Bloo]

850 words written this morning. First 200 hundred were like pulling teeth though.

I'll say. 20,000 is a lot of words in one day

 

[Barbara]

Deleted 100 after I added 150..... erm ...

 

[Bloo]

Deleted 100 after I added 150..... erm ...

| -100 | + | 150 | = 250

EDIT: Don't know if Europe, the UK, and Commonwealth nations use the same symbols as us Yanks, so...

ABS( -100 ) + ABS( 150 ) = 250

 

[MattScho]

So, for these final 12,000-15,000 words, I had a plan. I had it mapped out.
gang aft agley, and all that.
A bit beyond 3,500 since we started our Limowino, and i really like it. Obvs these are vomit drafts, but tasty vomit

 

[LJ Beck]

So, for these final 12,000-15,000 words, I had a plan. I had it mapped out.
gang aft agley, and all that.
A bit beyond 3,500 since we started our Limowino, and i really like it. Obvs these are vomit drafts, but tasty vomit

I didn't know if I should "love" emoji this because..... tasty vomit.... made me want to vomit. You really are your readership. haha.

 

[Becca T]

9,644 words rewritten, including 350 words added in the last 4 days. The next couple of days the added words should increase because I need to add in a scene.

 

[Nikky Lee]

Another 860 words yesterday. Lots of world building so I'm in my happy place, even if it feels like I'm plodding my way through.