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1. #SETTING DEADLINE SCRIVENER WINDOWS HOW TO#
2. #SETTING DEADLINE SCRIVENER WINDOWS FOR MAC#
3. #SETTING DEADLINE SCRIVENER WINDOWS WINDOWS 10#
4. #SETTING DEADLINE SCRIVENER WINDOWS SOFTWARE#

These sidekick characters speak telepathically (like my ghosts in the ghost series) in italics! I have pages of italics in my books. I write fantasy with Familiar Animal companions, major sidekick characters. I had to customize the F8 function key because for over two decades I’d used this key in Word Perfect for underline/italics. I’d done both of these things in Scrivener for Windows. Somehow I’d missed the instructions for customizing the Format bar (you know, where cut/copy/paste/undo live), and the keyboard. Over two days I worked through the seminar again, reached the end of it, and felt puzzled.

#SETTING DEADLINE SCRIVENER WINDOWS SOFTWARE#

The first piece of software I bought was Scrivener for the Mac.

I got it and spent an extremely long day and a half re-setting passwords and users (which I completely screwed up), reinstalling the operating system, then downloading and installing the new OS. This would be my new dedicated writing machine, lightweight and easy to travel with, take with me while I did housesitting, research trips, family trips, writing retreats and even if I went to a local coffee shop. I bought accessories, two cases, two keyboard skins. So I took the holiday money I’d received and shopped around on ebay as I do and got a good deal on an excellent shape, not too old, Macbook Air. I could only see money drain out of my pocket.

#SETTING DEADLINE SCRIVENER WINDOWS WINDOWS 10#

I also got tired of the “Get Windows 10 NOW!” icon living in my taskbar, the idea that I’d have to rent, yearly, Microsoft Word (which my publishers insist on using for revisions and copy edits). Again, I’d heard for years about Vellum, an expensive but very easy and very beautiful formatting program. I wanted it.Īnd the epublisher I’d been expecting to put out the novella was closing its doors, which meant I needed to self-publish. The Scrivener program on the Mac had more bells and whistles, particularly with regard to setting deadlines (vital for me). It made my writing so much easier, moving around scenes, outlining, jotting down notes, keeping a place for research, just letting me write! And I wrote that novella (which turned out too long as usual), in record time.īut I became dissatisfied.

#SETTING DEADLINE SCRIVENER WINDOWS HOW TO#

I watched the videos on how to do this and that if you had a PC instead of a Mac.

#SETTING DEADLINE SCRIVENER WINDOWS FOR MAC#

Scrivener was originally written for Mac systems only, but had put out a PC version. So I applied and got the free training program and went step-by-step through it. A novella sounded perfect for learning Scrivener. One day a friend emailed me a free offer for a very expensive tutorial “Learning Scrivener Fast.” Since I’d just been forced to realize I would not be having a novel out in my main series in 2016, I’d determined to write and put out two novellas. I’d downloaded it and updated it and tried the tutorial a couple of times, but hadn’t gotten the hang of it. I’d bought it at a discount (significantly under $100) after “winning” NaNoWriMo one year, since the makers of Scrivener sponsor that event. These factors made be decide to quit.įor years I’d heard how wonderful Scrivener was, and my friends thought it would fit my writing style (out of order pantser). I’d also gotten a persistent glitch in the program that popped up a useless button every time I logged on (okay, I eventually fixed that).

If I wanted the newest version, I’d have to pay hundreds of dollars for it. I was also about three versions behind and Corel (the creator of Word Perfect) no longer supported my version. Up until about two months ago, I was the last writer I knew still using the Word Perfect word processing program.