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LiNoWriMo Litopia Novel Writing Month (LiMoWriMo)

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LJ Beck said:
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.
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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?
 
Nikky Lee said:
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?
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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.
 
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.
 
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Jonny said:
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.
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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!

Sedayne said:
Me too. I never have a problem adding words but would like to shed a few thousand. Maybe we should do a reverse LiNoWriMo.
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Or a sidestep... I need different words.
 
Barbara said:
I'd like to join but I'm not sure I should. I need to delete words, not add them.
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Sedayne said:
Me too. I never have a problem adding words but would like to shed a few thousand. Maybe we should do a reverse LiNoWriMo.
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Absolute values were made for problems such as this.
 
LJ Beck said:
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.
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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?
 
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


avajae.blogspot.com

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 avajae.blogspot.com
 
RK Wallis said:
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?
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Thanks! I use Mac. I'll do some more digging around. Although Jonny seems like he's found a way!
 
Jonny said:
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


avajae.blogspot.com

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 avajae.blogspot.com
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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!! :heart:

AND.... done. All cleaned up and ready to go in Scrivener now. Amazing.
 
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LJ Beck said:
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!! :heart:

AND.... done. All cleaned up and ready to go in Scrivener now. Amazing.
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Hey... it's what I do. :rolling-on-the-floor-laughing: :rolling-on-the-floor-laughing:


Happy it worked. Fabulous.
 
RK Wallis said:
Fantastic! Good detective work @Jonny :) God I LOVE Scrivener!!!
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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... (╥﹏╥))

Why Do I Do This To Myself Kenan Thompson GIF by Saturday Night Live
 
MattScho said:
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
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I didn't know if I should "love" emoji this because..... tasty vomit.... made me want to vomit. You really are your readership. haha.
 
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