Hey, Keith.
I just wanted to let you know that I the novel I wrote for last year’s Nano: The Cartographer, has gotten me a deal with an agent. I wrote it with Scrivener and the whole experience was plain sailing (It took 23 days). So thanks for your part in my success. The agency is now interested in my first novel, The Last Messiah, which was started on Word, then ported to Scrivener (when I discovered it), and went like a dream. It was a long and complex sci-fi and I couldn’t have written it without Scrivener’s Binder, Split Screen, Document and Project Notes Feature, document splitter, and search thingy.
Only one thing: I hate the corkboard. Nothing personal; I just hate cork.
I’ve written a longish textbook using Word, and it needs work, so I’m going to rewrite it using Scrivener, which I a suspish will do just fine.
BTW my wp is Nisus. I will never touch Word again. Promise.
All the best,
Pete.
Hi Pete,
Congratulations on getting a deal with an agent! That’s great! Good luck with finding a publisher - I hope your agent finds you one soon and we get to see your books in the shops.
By the way, did you know you could turn off the cork background? The corkboard doesn’t have to look like a corkboard at all - you can turn off the lines in the index cards too, so that they are just rectangles against a flat coloured background (and in 2.0 you’ll be able to give them rounded corners too).
I’m a Nisus fan too, by the way - it’s probably the wp that Scrivener works best with (along with Word), given their superb RTF support.
All the best,
Keith
Thanks, Keith.
By the way, my sister (also a novelist) is now a confirmed Scrivenist too.
Cheers.