Word count

[feuervogel]

+665, 49215

If the word counts don't seem to add up day to day, there seems to be a bug in Scrivener that randomly loses words from the tally and returns them if I scroll through the scene list. It originally said 45-something, and I thought, hey, that's not right.

Comments

[groovesinorbit]

I discovered Scrivener's keyword feature this weekend. I am in heaven.

[feuervogel]

It's so useful! I have mine organized by POV, structure, and purpose. Did you know you can set the search box to keyword and pull up only those scenes? So I could pull all the POV: Chris scenes and read them for consistent voice etc.

[groovesinorbit]

I did! Hadn't thought about adding POV. That's a good idea. Right now, I'm keywording characters, places, and purpose. What do you mean by structure?

[feuervogel]

Things like inciting incident, rising action, reversal, climax, denouement. I'm trying to be more conscious of these things, rather than going by intuition gained from decades of reading fiction.

[groovesinorbit]

Oh, gotcha. I haven't taken on structure yet, but I have keywords for what a scene accomplishes: character development (self/relationship), plot advancement, worldbuilding, etc., plus notes to myself on whether a scene could be deleted (if it doesn't actually do anything) or needs to be expanded.