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#Storyist naming your chapters software
#Storyist naming your chapters free

In order to start a new scene, as if you were shifting from one location to another in your story but do not require a new chapter to do so, select the “Section Separator” and insert a hashtag as below. If you have the “Inspector” out, you can click on the Paragraph symbol, which should be the second icon over, just to the right of the “T.” Under that you should have 5 options: Chapter Title, Header, Section Separator, Section Text, and Default Style. Easy peasy.Ī new scene in Storyist is easy.

#Storyist naming your chapters free

Select “comment,” and and a yellow square comes up where you are free to type in your comment for later reference. Select the arrow to the right, and you should have a “comment” option.

Simply select your word or sentence where you wish to leave a note, then you should get a pop up menu with the “cut,” “copy,” etc options. The wonderful thing about Storyist is that even the app allows you to insert comments, so if something occurs to you while you’re on your phone, but you don’t have time to address it, or simply just want to jot something down for later, you still can, all without leaving the app. I love typing comments to myself while in the midst of writing. In terms of plotting ability and flexibility, I much prefer Scrivener’s options, which are plentiful. Perhaps because I don’t use the Freytag Pyramid plot, I don’t find this division particularly helpful and haven’t used the plot features much at all. It’s a simple form of the Freytag’s Pyramid plot, with cards already formed called: Exposition/Inciting Event, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, and Denouement. Storyist offers a plotting guideline for you to get started with, which is probably most helpful for those who tend not to plot at all, or who are just starting to experiment with plotting prior to writing. Perhaps I just haven’t put the effort into figuring it out, as looking at the website for Storyist, it seems eerily similar to Scrivener in abilities and appearance. I’m not as familiar with Storyist as I am Scrivener, and as much as Scrivener gets complaints about being too complicated, I’ve found Storyist’s plotting device more complicated. But Dropbox has yet to fail me.Įven though Storyist is simpler in design, it still offers a plotting capability that can keep you in line as you write through your first draft. I used Dropbox, and I love it, now saving all my documents directly to Dropbox and keeping a backup on my computer just in case. If you choose to save only to your phone, then you may email the document to yourself as desired. For an event like NaNoWriMo, that’s a great thing to not have to worry about syncing your novel constantly.Īlthough Dropbox, iCloud, or your phone’s storage area is required for the app to sync, only using Dropbox or iCloud will automatically sync. Scrivener involves a few more steps, which I’m not going to get into right now.

Syncing is a few steps simpler in Storyist than Scrivener, and for that reason, I can type a few sentences on my iPad, then go to my MacBook, then back to my iPad or iPhone and not miss a word. The single reason I started using Storyist at all is because of the syncing feature. (Thankfully, you’re given a warning and asked which one you want to keep, or both, should that occur.)Īlthough those are the two main reasons I chose to use Storyist instead of my beloved Scrivener this year (don’t worry, Scrivener, I am not abandoning you! I plan to export my NaNo novel to Scrivener when I have to revise!), there are others which I explain in more detail below. The only challenge is in remembering to close the document I’m working on before I want to open it elsewhere or save it, otherwise there are conflicting documents created. Secondly, I don’t have to worry about transferring my document from phone to laptop and back again because Dropbox does that for me. (Hey, that’s better than him grabbing my laptop and typing nonsense in the middle of my manuscript!) Therefore, if I have my phone on me, I can quickly open up The Storyist App and write fifty words before he sees my phone and wants to play with it. But today, as I’ve chosen this year to write my NaNo novel in Storyist, I want to discuss a few of the reasons why I made that choice.įirst off, as a mother of a toddler boy, who rarely stays still long enough for me to sit down and relax while he’s awake, my writing time tends to come in short bursts.

#Storyist naming your chapters software

One of the most popular posts I have on my blog is my comparison of Storyist and Scrivener, so I think it’s about time that I talk about them again, as my writing software is what makes my writing easier.