Kirk McElhearn

1 week ago | literatureandlatte.com | Kirk McElhearn

The Pomodoro Technique is a time-management technique that breaks workdays down into small periods of work and rest. For many people, it can boost creativity and productivity. You know that feeling you get when you’ve been writing for an hour or two, and you’re starting to lose focus? The words aren’t coming as quickly as you wish, yet you want to push ahead and finish that scene or chapter.

2 weeks ago | literatureandlatte.com | Kirk McElhearn

Creative writing taps into your unconscious mind. You can nurture your unconscious to be more creative. When you write a novel, you’re alone. Or are you? There’s you, the writer, but there’s also your subconscious, the part of your mind that churns away when you’re walking, cooking, or sleeping. When writing a novel, much of what you write is spontaneous; you generally don’t think out each sentence you write.

3 weeks ago | literatureandlatte.com | Kirk McElhearn

Nicolas Binge is an author of four science fiction novels; his latest is Dissolution. Show notes:Nicholas BingeDissolutionRichard Powers: PlaygroundLearn more about Scrivener, and check out the ebook Take Control of Scrivener. If you like the podcast, please follow it on Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app. Leave a rating or review, and tell your friends. And check out past episodes of Write Now with Scrivener.

4 weeks ago | literatureandlatte.com | Kirk McElhearn

These three tips will help you get more done with the Binder in your Scrivener projects. The Binder is the heart of your Scrivener projects; it’s where you create files and folders, write scenes and chapters, and organize and rearrange your project. (Read Use Folders and Texts to Power Up the Scrivener Binder.)As you work on a long-form writing project, you’ll spend most of your time in the Editor, but you’ll also view and work with the Binder, especially as you progress in your project.

1 month ago | literatureandlatte.com | Kirk McElhearn

You can leverage a number of features in Scrivener to track your writing submissions within your Scrivener projects. When you’ve finished writing a novel, it’s time to submit it to agents in the hopes of getting published. If you write short stories, articles, or poems, you may regularly submit your work to journals and magazines. It’s important to attract these submissions so you know when you sent them, whether you got a response, and, for stories, articles, or poems, when they were published.