It's always a nice surprise when you end up writing more than you expected, congrats!
I don't do much (or any) planning for short stories either, but I definitely need one for long projects, like hopefully-to-be novel manuscript. Otherwise, after then 10,000 words I just muddle about not knowing where I'm going and how to get there, and the project just loses steam and dies down. I may change a lot of things while I'm writing, but I need to have some plans when I start out.
Yes, Scrivener is a wonderful too for me, too! And the split screen feature is very handy. I'm the most dependent on the index card feature and the many fields of information you can use there, as well as the snapshots and rollbacks when I'm editing, but the split screen definitely has its uses. I hadn't actually thought of using it to work on the outline and the chapter file side by side, I'll have to try that for this project!
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Date: 2018-04-03 07:19 pm (UTC)I don't do much (or any) planning for short stories either, but I definitely need one for long projects, like hopefully-to-be novel manuscript. Otherwise, after then 10,000 words I just muddle about not knowing where I'm going and how to get there, and the project just loses steam and dies down. I may change a lot of things while I'm writing, but I need to have some plans when I start out.
Yes, Scrivener is a wonderful too for me, too! And the split screen feature is very handy. I'm the most dependent on the index card feature and the many fields of information you can use there, as well as the snapshots and rollbacks when I'm editing, but the split screen definitely has its uses. I hadn't actually thought of using it to work on the outline and the chapter file side by side, I'll have to try that for this project!