Back to the future

Written by David França Mendes — December 28, 2022

or: one should trust their tools

I wrote and rewrote a #novel until I thought it was fine. Then gave it some time to rest (or gave it to me), read it again and, truth is, some structure tweaks are still needed.

I wrote its first draft in #Novlr and then finished it in #Highland2 . Both are fine #writingTools. The best, IMHO. None is exactly what I need to do a fine tuning of the structure, unfortunately. No, #Scrivener is not an option, for reasons I can get to later. So I went on a quest for the tool I needed. Tried virtually everything there is for novel #writing and #storytelling

That was a very useful and enriching way to #procrastinate

In the end, I am back to a method that never failed me. Cards. #IndexCards. And that is for a very objective reason. The work that has to be done physically, re-reading the novel so to get each of its beats into a card, produces a level of awareness of the material that no software would give me. And it is so easy to shuffle cards, isn’t it.

So I am not on track to the future (last?) version of this novel. Wish me luck.

#writing #writingcommunity #amwriting

references:

You find Novlr at https://novlr.org You find Highland 2 at https://quoteunquoteapps.com/highland-2/ You find index cards wherever you find paper stuff