Agented author, recovering humor columnist, 2022 MFA graduate, and founder of the unhinged vlog series and podcast Tightwires. Join me for quarterly challenges as I navigate life and writing outside the MFA!
Wow! Andrea is a true inspiration. I really appreciated how she talked about boundaries and the publishing industry around 20:00 mark. Her book is on my TBR!
This was an EXCELLENT interview. I loved Hiba's questions and Megan's responses. Megan spoke so thoughtfully about the content of her book and processing her grief. When it comes to writing, I loved Megan's framing of revision. I agree - that's where the writing happens. In addition, it was refreshing to hear how she views her writing practice as a relationship. I will definitely return to this interview, and I've pre-ordered her book.
Hi, Hiba! I too happened to pick up a couple of seasons of Superstore from the library this summer. A little spicy for my tastes, but it's tough to find a good pick-up/put-down sitcom these days. America Ferrera is good in any show. Abbott is a staple in our household. My son is glued to the tv whenever it's on.
Hi Eric! Yeah, Superstore was a good one to have on in the background. It was my first time seeing America in anything-- still haven't managed to see Barbie, but I'm looking forward to catching it eventually! And Abbot is great!!!
Thank you!! They have a tutorial about that on the L&L blog. I haven’t tried it but give it a look and let me know if you need more help: www.literatureandlatte.com/blog/create-custom-templates-for-your-scrivener-projects
@@hhtahir it was extremely easy. I figured it out myself. You set it all up as you prefer and go to the file tab select 'save as template' about 2/3rds down the menu
What a great interview! I loved the part at the end about revisiting your "old work," even if it's new to the world, and how it can feel like a time capsule. You always have such amazing guests.
Hiba, I know this is old, but hope you will find this and answer. My question is did you use the regular template for fiction or the poetry format for this?
Hello, I found your channel via your Scrivener set up tutorial for novel writing. Your set up for outlining was very informative and I’m now using many of your methods. Then I watched your “writing a book in 10 days” series and was impressed, that’s a lot of words in such a short time. Then I visited your blog and saw you are a graduate of USM, Me too! I graduated in December 1984 with a degree in computer Science. #SMTTT I return to Hattiesburg many times per year to visit my mother. I also saw you are an Arkansas graduate, my son (computer science) and his wife (marketing) graduated in 2021 from there. Both are here in Dallas-Ft Worth now. I have that same Keurig in black. You have a new subscriber.
Diannely’s collage poem rules were so fascinating! It got me interested in learning more about poetry structure. I really appreciated hearing how she used those rules to help her approach trauma. I will definitely revisit this interview in the future.
Thanks for the video. I was using Write It Now 5, but saw all the hype for Scrivener and plenty of videos. It seems to have a lot more features and I really like the "screen shot" so you don't loose material when editing. Thanks again, nice work! ***Edit...Darn it! I just saw the sales commission portion when I dropped down...just purchased Scrivener!***
I'm so glad it helped you! I hadn't heard of Write It Now, but it looks very similar to Scrivener? If you like the screenshot feature, check out my poetry and short fiction Scrivener tutorial for a few other tips & tricks (And no worries about the affiliate link! <3)
@@hhtahir Thanks, I will check out the poetry and short fiction tutorials. The "in software" tutorial is soooo long. I just skipped it and dove in. Took me forever (2 hours today) to even figure out how to start typing after my import (which was confusing due to the formatting being all centered lol). Now that my chapters are created and the 3 completed ones (drafts) are imported, I can set down to work. Thanks again!
Ya know for a tutorial, it'd probably be a good idea to slow tf down so people can follow what you're doing step by step. Lol thanks for trying though.
As a hardcore MS Word user, this video and your presentation convinced me to get Scrivner. Thank you for the professional presentation and for being so efficient.
This was so fascinating to see! Thanks so much for sharing! A goal of 10 videos a quarter really stuck out to me. It frees us a bit from the "1 video per week" grind while still being productive overall. I'm thinking a lot about sustainability on RU-vid and this goal of yours really stuck out to me. I'm so happy you found a system that works for you. I love how tactile it is and that it doesn't seem daunting. So if you forgo a week, it's easy to catch up. Thanks again!!
Thank you, Smiti! Yes, exactly- the “1 video per week” mentality brought me a lot of stress in 2023, but 10 videos every 3 months has been manageable! And it kept me from stressing out when I opted to complete the RU-vid course instead of working on videos last month. I find using a mix of TB goals/TB time tracking alongside the traditional to-do list- and sometimes in lieu of it- so reassuring!
I don't know if anyone knows this, but you can use emojis as the icons for the folders and text in Scriveners (at least in Mac) Do as you would do to change the icon, but on the top of the drop down menu for the available icons, you can choose "Icon from text" and you can use any emoji.
I really don't want to be rude or anything, but I don't understand the purpose of this video if you just took everything from someone else's workflow and the default novel theme from scrivener but done manually instead of literally clicking one button and have everything set up. Why? 🤷🏾♂️ You like to waste time?
Lmaooo because “clicking one button” doesn’t give me my preferred set up... This is just me sharing my process, which is a compendium of numerous other RU-vidrs’ workflows 🤷🏻♀️
@@hhtahir you can just start with the default setup for novel provided by scrivener. It's basically 90-95% the same as yours, I'm sure you're aware of it but don't want to admit or you like to waste time setting it up yourself. Anyway, other than that - enjoyable video 😉 I subscribe
@theshisho Nope. The default novel setup is actually a lot better than mine because it’s optimized for compiling the final product. I just copy and paste each section into a word document. It gives me another opportunity to edit. Maybe I do love wasting time lmao. Thanks!
Thank you, Smiti! Something I forgot to mention in the video but should say is that there is a good bit of advice on overcoming negative emotions, which I think does set it apart from some other books in the space!
I've been using Scrivener for years, mostly for work related writing and never used more than about 10% of its functionality. Now I've retired I'm getting into a number of writing projects from family history to poetry to short and long form story writing. This one video has made a world of difference - I'll never be a published writer but at least I'll be amore efficient one. Many thanks
I'm so glad to hear it helped you, Peter!! Good luck to you on all your future writing, and feel free to check out the poetry version for more short-form and poetry-specific tips! Here it is: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qWcAAI4Xvlg.html
Great reaction and discussion! Can't wait for Rep TV tracks and your reaction to them! The discussion over 'Thats When' was pretty hilarious 😂😂 I have always interpreted it like this though - That the premise is the girl needed space in the relationship but now wants to come back and is both regretful and apologetic about the distance she created. So throughout the song she gets reassurance from the guy about when can she come back to him. So the guy - as you all also mentioned - is basically listing out any possible scenario that can happen in a day, as if saying she can come back whenever. So the whole thing is the girl getting reassurance from the guy that he's always waiting for her. But its said in, according to me, a kind of corny way 😂😂 Like when someone asks their lover how long will they love them and they answer with - till they have the ability to laugh and cry, wake up and sleep, etc etc. I hope this didn't add to the confusion 🤣 P.s. hope you noticed the All Too Well parallel in the phrase 'Mr. casually cruel'. It was quite interesting to me!
Thank you so much! That explanation makes a lot of sense-- and no, we didn't pick up on the All Too Well parallel, but the two songs definitely have similar themes!
I'm on Windows and am having a difficult time trying to use the keywords title. I can't get the metadata into the column in the editor. I did what you said and have created the information, it just won't let me put it in. Thanks for this tutorial. It was really helpful.
