I have had an awesome writing session this evening. ‘The Eternal Blonde’ is now barrelling towards the end of draft one. I’m quite excited about where it’s heading too.
I have had an awesome writing session this evening. ‘The Eternal Blonde’ is now barrelling towards the end of draft one. I’m quite excited about where it’s heading too.
Strange New Worlds was great. I realise that this is likely not a revolutionary point of view but dang it, I really liked it
Headache finally fading after two days. Feels good to be alive now.
I keep thinking about the Superman movie and grinning to myself. Sign of a good movie that is.
The superman movie with absolutely excellent thoroughly enjoyed it from start to finish. Can’t help but notice though, there’s a lot of superman movies that are basically about real estate fraud.
At cinema, gone to see Superman. Decided that with heat and, you know, it’s a cinema, I would just wear shorts and a T-shirt. Everyone here is dressed like it’s a fashion show. I am scrub.
Scrivener is spectacular. It’s outstanding. It is, probably, the best all-in-one writing environment out there. I have written at length about it over the years. I respect the application, the business model and the legendary developer who works on it. I love scrivener.
Though, I don’t use Scrivener.
I know, shocking. And usually not something interesting to talk about; however, I have today seen a reddit post which vexed me, and, as such, required me to write a response. Not on reddit because I try not go get involved over there, the response in question, you are reading, right now.
I also, don’t link externally from here because, well, why would I send you to that hellscape? — Anyway, the post was just a couple of paragraphs which basically said ‘I like Scrivener, but I spent too much time tinkering, and then I can’t find anything.’ This is a reasonable thing to say. But, do you know what the comments said? Can you guess?
‘You are the problem.’
‘Skill issue.’
‘Learn to use the application.’
‘Maybe you are not good enough of a writer for Scrivener’
Again, I am paraphrasing, but you get the idea. People didn’t like that this person didn’t get along with Scrivener.
As I said, I love Scrivener and often recommend it to people who don’t enjoy the flat/linear workflow of traditional work processors. I understand it, I learned it. But, I don’t use it.
The reason I’m ranting here, a little, as well as retreading old ground is because I firmly believe that all these people making comments to our original poster, as described above, are all arse hats.
It is, perfectly valid to say, “I like this tool, this tool is good, but it does not suit my needs/workflow as well as this other tool.”
For instance, I accept that Scrivener is ‘dope’ as we said in the nineties. Or ‘Goated’ as they say in the modern parlance. However, I still use Ulysses instead.
Personally, my reasons are probably a little simpler than the reddit poster but just as valid.
Now, I realise that to the hard-core Scrivener user/fan/nutter this seems mad because I could just use Scrivener and apple notes _and then _export to Vellum for my final compilation.
But, at that point Scrivener makes up such a small part of the workflow, why not use something i prefer anyway?
The argument is that Scrivener is a one-time payment, whereas ulysses is a subscription. Yes. And, I agree that subscriptions are the worst way of paying for a product, but I do use it every day. Heck, I wrote this very post in Ulysses then exported it to the website (Micro.blog based) with a single click. Unlike Scrivener, Ulysses gets regular update and additional features. Not that Scrivener needs more features, but the point stands.
Anyway, not I have defended my original case, I have to tackle the issue I wanted to moan about.
Do not ever assume someone is less skilled than you just because they prefer different tools.
If you assume someone is ‘wrong’ or simply under educated because they don’t use Scrivener, when you are saying that every writer in history who chose to ‘just use Word’ is incorrect. Be sure to let them know the next time they are doing a reddit AMA. I doubt Brandon Sanderson want’s to learn scrivener after making millions of dollars using Word and wikid-pad. Will Stephen King switch? Will George RR Martin move away from whatever archaic DOS based madness he uses just because reddit thinks Scrivener is best? No.
The art is in the words, not the work. The work is in time spent writing. No one ever got a Nebula for having a really nice Scrivener setup.
I had an exceptionally good time last night levelling in final fantasy 14. It was a good time. Familiar but still exciting. Going to write something about it this evening.
A friend sent me a new hard drive for my ROG Ally. I’ve gone a bit mad installing games. Feels good though 🤩
After a day of feeling quite unwell and not being at all productive, its time to listen to Sting and write some words!