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I'm not sure how long this is going to last, but I moved all of my on-going fanfic projects to Scrivener as well. I already started using it for my original projects, but for fanfics I used to find it too intimidating. This may well happen again, but for now I'm cherishing the organisational flexibility it allows. It's Just Great (tm) XD

I'll go back to 4thewords if I get too stuck in my own head again (defeating monsters and completing quests just works so well to kick me out of the 'Thou must write something Good or you will waste your time, nay, the entire world's time!' kind of block.) The recent weird bug that resulted in some data loss in many files has been such a pain to manage, even if I believed I recovered everything I needed. Between the hurt/comfort series, fics I drafted last November and still need to edit, and some other things I have going on, it's just been kind of messy to try to find all my files again and making sure they're whole. Scrivener is refreshing in that sense (easy to find things!), but may not help with the "getting stuck in own head" issue... I suppose there's always changing the font to Comic Sans and bright yellow font on neon green background or something to test, etc, if/when that happens again 😆

Note: even with the helpful AO3 Scrivener template that was shared with me, copy-pasting directly into AO3's Rich Text Editor doesn't work and I lose italics and other formatting. However, this Tumblr tutorial from zaharya (and the follow-up tutorial) appear to have resolved the problem for me, so I'm happy with the current status. I only posted a couple of things with it so far though, so tbc!

I'm enjoying working offline more. The only thing I'm missing at the moment is a good thesaurus program that would work offline, too. The one integrated with Scrivener doesn't cut it for my needs.

I want to talk about some stuff going on in my writing again, but because I didn't really share much especially around the orig novellas in January, my brain seems jammed about new thoughts and related posts until I get that stuff out first. I guess I'll attempt to summarise soon, so I can share the fresh stuff again XD

Any of you also using Scrivener for fic? How do you find it? Any tips? I'm still not 100% how I will organise projects over time especially with the many one-shots, but I'm looking forward to testing out various ways!

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Signal boosts:

• I just came across problematicfemslash, a comm for problematic/dark femslash prompts, which I think some people in my circles may also enjoy!