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I hope that helps! How do you guys revise? Do you use Scrivener, or do you have a different process? This way, when I'm re-reading my manuscript later and I notice something that doesn't make sense, I can go back to that chapter in Scrivener, see what I was thinking, and change accordingly.
Overall, this makes it easier to find everything I'm looking for, and to go back and see my thought process for each chapter. I also use Scrivener's keyword function to help me find those darlings later when I need them. Mostly this is important information that needs to show up somewhere in this book, I just know it's not supposed to go in this chapter anymore, so I'm holding onto it until I know what to do with it. Some (okay, most) of my chapters are filled with tons and tons of notes.ĭarlings is the place where I put any of my old writing I've cut that I think I may want to use, if not in this chapter, later in the manuscript. The chapter in my example is a fun, light chapter and therefore is pretty light on the revision. What were you thinking? None of this makes sense.") and where I make notes on things that need to change. Notes is the place where I dump all of my thoughts, where I talk through revisions ("Okay Andrea, you're a nut ball. Then I re-read the old chapter.Īfter that, I make two sections: Notes and Darlings. Anyway, I put in that old outline at the top so I can see where I'm coming from before I get to where I'm going. I make an outline for every draft that I finish, just because it helps me to easily see the whole picture when I'm revising for big ideas and themes. The first thing I do is take that snippet of my old outline (see the top of that doc) and put it in the appropriate chapter. Organize your thoughts within the chapters.
I've also added in an old outline doc, and a brainstorming doc at the bottom.ģ. If you take a look at my screenshot above, you can see that I've added in (some of) my chapters on the left. Make a separate section for each of your chapters. However, for this purpose, I'm going to start a fresh Scrivener doc and label it something like Manuscript Title_Revisions.Ģ. I generally draft in Scrivener and revise in Word, so I already have a Scrivener doc with my entire manuscript.