Scrivener is a wonderful program.
It is alright when writing for the first time. When rewriting from the beginning, we need to know the progress. A scale with 0 to 100 markings could be helpful, with an option to turn it off and on in the View Menu.
Am I missing something? Is it already there? But it is not reflecting in the View Menu.
Do you mean something like the “Project Targets” window, from the Project menu?
I mean a scale (0-100) alongside the vertical scrollbar. And an option in the View menu to make it active or inactive. Because in Scrivener there are no page counts as in MS word. Suppose I want to have a daily target of revising 5 % or 10% of the manuscript. And I want to do the editing in Scrivener.
Seeing as how a manuscript in Scrivener may be a hundred small sections instead of one huge file, there may be better ways of setting goals and keeping track of your progress, such as deciding to get ten sections of the outline revised per day, and marking them as done with the Status setting. That’s the approach that I take myself, but I tend to write into very small sections, nothing longer than a portion of a scene or a single component of a topic in non-fiction. So with say, a dozen ~250 word sections, I can get a decent chunk of work done in a way that befits the software model.
As you note, Scrivener doesn’t really “think” in pages like a word processor does, but I don’t think it really needs to, at least for this particular process.
At any rate, I’ll jot down your idea and see if we can do something with it that fits in. I just wanted to share some ideas for getting work done, in the meanwhile.
While I was revising my book (it consisted of 12 chapter folders, each of about 4 or 5 docs) I kept track of my progress by, first of all, deciding to revise a full chapter in a sitting and not to stop until that was done.
Secondly each time I completed a chapter I changed the colour of the chapter icon to a new one.
So my chapters were all ‘Blue Book’ to start with. On my first major revision I changed to '‘Brown Book’ icon as I went. Then to ‘Red Book’ … and back around as I worked.
The result was that each day I could see how much I had revised and I could chose to write anew or revise.
Here’s my system:
I used the color of the status label to indicate revision status:
Orange - To Do
Light Red - Pseudo code
Yellow - First draft
Green - revised draft
Darker green - Final draft.
I use the icons to show which of the characters has the POV in that scene.
Works great!
Oooooh … left my sunglasses in my jacket :mrgreen: