Write Now with Scrivener

Becca Caddy writes about science and technology, and is a self-avowed tech addict. Her book Screen Time tells us how to make peace with our tech devices and not be overwhelmed by them.

Show notes:

• Becca Caddy
• Screen Time
• Composition Mode and other focus features in Scrivener
• Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, This Is How You Lose the Time War

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Joanna Penn combines her talents as a thriller author with her skills in marketing to have a successful writing career. Her latest book is Pilgrimage: Lessons Learned from Solo Walking Three Ancient Ways.

Show notes:

• Joanna Penn
• Pilgrimage
• Pilgrimage Kickstarter
• The Way
• Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage
• Check Grammar in Your Scrivener Projects with ProWritingAid
• Scapple
• Renee Rose: Write to Riches

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After decades as a corporate executive for a financial services firm, Bill Thompson retired and became a bestselling author of archeological thrillers.

Show notes:

• Bill Thompson
• My Second Act: Bestselling Novelist
• Bill Thompson's books
• Kindle ebook royalties
• Kindle Unlimited royalties
• Kevin Kelly, 1,000 True Fans
• Daniel Silva books

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Allison K. Williams is a writer, editor, and coach, as well as former circus performer, and is the author of Seven Drafts, a book about self-editing. Seven Drafts helps writers get from the messy first draft to final draft.

Show notes:

• Allison K. Williams
• Seven Drafts
• Writer Beware
• Scrivener Blog
• Matt Bell, Refuse to Be Done
• Lisa Solomon, A Field Guide to Color

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Katelyn Monroe Howes is a documentary filmmaker, who has just written her first novel, The Awoken, a dystopian science fiction thriller, has just been published.

"I honestly don't think my process could have worked unless I had Scrivener."

Show notes:

• Katelyn Monroe Howes
• The Awoken
• 1/27 Pictures
• The Peripheral
• Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

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Brigitta Blair is an author/illustrator, and Camilla Zhang is a comics editor. Together they have created the Standard Comic Strip Template for Scrivener.

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Brigitta Blair is an author/illustrator, and Camilla Zhang is a comics editor. Together they have created the Standard Comic Strip Template for Scrivener. We discussed comics, how they are made, and how the Scrivener template helps comic authors.

Show notes:

• Brigitta Blair
• Camilla Zhang
• Steenz
• Standard Comic Script Template
• Comics Code Authority
• Alison Bechdel, Fun Home
• Jen Wang, The Prince and the Dressmaker

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Grant Faulkner is executive director of National Novel Writing Month, where hundreds of thousands of people write novels during the month of November. He tells us about the amazing event that is NaNoWriMo, and how it brings together people around the world to write together.

Show notes:

• Grant Faulkner
• NaNoWriMo

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Rashelle Isip is a professional organizer, helping people better manage their time, space, and belongings. She explains how writers can better manage their time and be more efficient.

Show notes:

• Rashelle Isip
• Rashelle Isip's books
• How to Stay Focused on Your Work
• Got the Blank Page Blues? Take a Walk. How Walking Boosts Creativity.
• Adam Grant, Think Again
• John Zada, In the Valleys of the Noble Beyond

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Christie Aschwanden is a journalist, author, and editor, and has written Good to Go: What the athlete in all of us can learn from the strange science of recovery, a book about the science of athletic recovery. She is a runner and cyclist, and has contributed articles to The New York Times, Runner's World, and Bicycling, among others.

Show notes:

• Christie Aschwanden
• Good to Go: What the athlete in all of us can learn from the strange science of recovery
• Emerging Form, Christie's podcast

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William Gallagher is a versatile writer. He has written Doctor Who radio dramas, novels, and hundreds of articles about technology, as well as books about writing. He also creates many YouTube videos about writing and technology.

Show notes:

• William Gallagher
• 58keys, William Gallagher's YouTube channel
• Three-Biscuit Guide to Scrivener (one-hour video looking at Scrivener's features)
• Jane Austen, Lady Susan

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Rowan Hooper is a science writer, and is currently podcast editor for The New Scientist. His book, How to Save the World for Just a Trillion Dollars, looks at ten big problems in the world and how they can be solved for a trillion dollars.

Show notes:

• Rowan Hooper
• How to Save the World for Just a Trillion Dollars
• How to Spend a Trillion Dollars
• Emily St. John Mandel, The Sea of Tranquility
• George Monbiot, Regenesis

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Jessica Payne has just published her first novel, Make Me Disappear, a psychological thriller about a woman who arranges her own kidnapping. Jessica is the host of #MomsWritersClub, on YouTube and Twitter, where she discusses the issues around writing and being a mom.

Show notes:

• Jessica Payne
• MomsWritersClub
• Jaime Lynn Hendricks: It Could Be Anyone
• Janelle Brown: I'll Be You
• Nita Prose: The Maid
• Catherine McKenzie: Please Join Us

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April Henry is the author of more than two dozen mysteries and thrillers for teens and adults. Her novels have won prizes, been shortlisted for other prizes, and have been translated into ten languages. She knows two dozen different ways to kill you.

Show notes:

• April Henry
• Two Truths and a Lie
• Gin Phillips: Fierce Kingdom

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Damon Young is a philosopher, poet, and an author of fiction for children. As a philosopher, he has written about reading, the garden, and sex, and he has also written a half-dozen children's books. He also writes regularly for newspapers and magazines, and is a frequent guest on radio and TV.

Show notes:

• Damon Young
• Philosophy in the Garden
• Damon Young on sword fighting
• John Williams: Stoner
• Patrick O'Brian: The Complete Aubrey/Maturin Novels

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Charles Shields is a biographer of mid-century American novelists and writers. After a career teaching, and writing histories and biographies for young people, Shields has written several biographies of American authors, the most recent of which is about playwright Lorraine Hansberry, author of Raisin in the Sun.

Show notes:

• Charles J. Shields
• Lorraine Hansberry: The Life Behind A Raisin in the Sun
• The Many Visions of Lorraine Hansberry (New Yorker)
• Organize Your Scrivener Project with the Corkboard
• The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
• Mary Beard, Women & Power

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Annie Finch is a poet, writer, critic, editor, playwright, librettist, translator, and witch. She has written poetry, criticism, memoirs, and works on meter and form, and is the founder of Poetry Witch Community, where she teaches meter, scansion, and magic.

Show notes:

• Annie Finch
• Poetry Witch Blog
• The Poetry Witch Little Book of Spells
• Louise Labé: Complete Poetry and Prose
• Occasioning Poetry
• Heide Göttner-Abendroth: Matriarchal Societies, Studies on Indigenous Cultures Across the Globe

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Charlie Stross is a prolific author of science fiction and fantasy. He has written more than two dozen novels, has won three Hugo awards, and has been nominated for many other awards, including the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and the Japanese Seiun Award.

Show notes:

• Charlie Stross
• Write Now with Scrivener, Episode No. 1: Peter Robinson
• Write Now with Scrivener, Episode No. 2: Dan Moren
• Scrivener and Microsoft Word: Importing & Exporting
• Regular expression - Wikipedia

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Nicole Kronzer is an author of young adult novels, a high school teacher, and a former actor. Her first novel, Unscripted, was named a Best Book for Young Adults by the American Library Association.

Show notes:

• Nicole Kronzer
• Unscripted
• The Loft Literary Center
• Nina Lacour, Yerba Buena
• Brandy Colbert, The Only Black Girls in Town, The Voting Booth

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Maggie Shipstead's latest novel has been shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize. Great Circle is a novel of love and loss and adventure, focusing on a woman pilot in the early days of flying, and an actress portraying her in the present.

Show notes:

• Maggie Shipstead
• Great Circle
• Booker Prize
• Colson Whitehead, Sag Harbor

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Having worked as a police intelligence analyst in the UK, Elizabeth Haynes knows a lot about crime. She has written a half dozen novels, all of which she started during NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month).

Show notes:

• Elizabeth Haynes
• You, Me & the Sea
• Lost Lives, Lisa Cutts
• NaNoWriMo
• The Last House on Needless Street, Catriona Ward
• The Lamplighters, Emma Stonex

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With a day job as a designer for one of the world's largest software companies, Christian Cantrell knows how computer technology works, and his novels are full of cutting-edge ideas. He explores science and technology that don’t yet exist in order to put characters in situations in which they can discover things about themselves that would otherwise have been impossible.

Show notes:

• Christian Cantrell
• Scorpion
• 47North
• Terry Hayes: I Am Pilgrim
• Hao Jingfang: Folding Beijing
• Markus Zusak: The Book Thief

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After a career in publishing, from being a publicist to senior editor, Annik Lafarge is now a consultant and advisor to authors. Her latest book is Chasing Chopin: A Musical Journey Across Three Centuries, Four Countries, and a Half-Dozen Revolutions. Annik talks about how important it is for authors to help market their books.

"I honestly don't think I could have written this book without without Scrivener."

Show notes:

• Annik Lafarge
• Chasing Chopin
• David Bellos: The Novel of the Century, The Extraordinary Adventure of Les Misérables
• Michael Gorra, Portrait of a Novel, Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece
• Tony Horwitz, Confederates in the Attic, Dispatches From the Unfinished Civil War
• Scott Huler, Defining the Wind, The Beaufort Scale and How a 19th-Century Admiral Turned Science Into Poetry
• Catherine Raven, Fox & I
• Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet

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J.T. Ellison has written more than 25 novels: standalone thrillers, three series, and has recently published the first in a series of co-authored young adult novels. She co-hosts a literary TV show, and is also a publisher. She also "loves Scrivener with the passion of a thousand fiery suns."

Show notes:

• J.T. Ellison
• Latest book: Her Dark Lies
• @thrillerchick
• A Word on Words (TV show)
• Jeff Abbott
• Story Planner
• The Wine Vixen

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Dan Moren juggles a triple career: that of a science fiction author, tech journalist, and podcaster. He discusses his the "sci-fi espionage capers" he writes, how he transitioned from journalism to fiction, and how he has used Scrivener to write each of his novels.

Show notes:

• Dan Moren
• Latest novel: The Aleph Extraction
• My writing finances, 2020
• Create Custom Templates for Your Scrivener Projects

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We welcome Peter Robinson, best-selling author of the Alan Banks crime series. Peter has written more than two dozen novels, and discusses his characters, how he uses music in his novels, and how Scrivener helps him manage his manuscripts.

Show notes:

• Peter Robinson
• Latest novel: Not Dark Yet
• Bob Dylan: Not Dark Yet

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