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Thank you for the webinar, Oliver, and pass on my thanks to Jessica as well. I enjoyed the session immensely and I have been using both products for years.
You're very welcome! I'm so glad you enjoyed the webinar and that you've been using both products for years. I'll be sure to pass your thanks on to Jessica as well!
To answer your question, I'm in an area of publishing that demands high volume. I write and publish a story in a week and do it every week, every month, every year.
So I'm not in this stage or that of a months-long writing process. I'm in the thick of it every day. Every day I could settle down, write a story from scratch, format it, upload it, and be ear ing money before midnight arrives.
If I put my mind to it and if I have the time without distractions. It rarely works out like that and in practice if I go too fast I make errors that need to be corrected and hence slow me down.
I use Scrivener simply because I have found no better writing platform for all round utility. If I want to write, I write. If I need to plan or save research notes or a map or whatever, I can do that. Jot down notes about a character or a setting, I can do it without breaking stride.
But. There's more to self-publishing than writing. Putti ng the manuscript into a good format, making sure the front matter is up to date, the "About the Author" has links to my social media, my newsletter, etc, developing a cover image, selecting keywords, writing a blurb.
Scrivener is good for accumulating all the pieces I need to fill in the Kindle Direct Publishing upload pages.
Vellum puts the knobs on and twirls them. A nice consistent theme, decorative elements, outputting the correct files in exactly the right formt for the platform. All the little details that make publishing week i, week out a smooth and efficient process.
Add to that the need to bundle up stories to sell as collections, a slightly more difficult task.
With a little familiarity I can use both apps effectively. I don't need the behomoth capabilities of word and more importantly I don't need the learning curve to know how to do all the flourishes that lift my published story above those that are merely accepting the defaults.
Thank you for the webinar, Oliver, and pass on my thanks to Jessica as well. I enjoyed the session immensely and I have been using both products for years.
You're very welcome! I'm so glad you enjoyed the webinar and that you've been using both products for years. I'll be sure to pass your thanks on to Jessica as well!
To answer your question, I'm in an area of publishing that demands high volume. I write and publish a story in a week and do it every week, every month, every year.
So I'm not in this stage or that of a months-long writing process. I'm in the thick of it every day. Every day I could settle down, write a story from scratch, format it, upload it, and be ear ing money before midnight arrives.
If I put my mind to it and if I have the time without distractions. It rarely works out like that and in practice if I go too fast I make errors that need to be corrected and hence slow me down.
I use Scrivener simply because I have found no better writing platform for all round utility. If I want to write, I write. If I need to plan or save research notes or a map or whatever, I can do that. Jot down notes about a character or a setting, I can do it without breaking stride.
But. There's more to self-publishing than writing. Putti ng the manuscript into a good format, making sure the front matter is up to date, the "About the Author" has links to my social media, my newsletter, etc, developing a cover image, selecting keywords, writing a blurb.
Scrivener is good for accumulating all the pieces I need to fill in the Kindle Direct Publishing upload pages.
Vellum puts the knobs on and twirls them. A nice consistent theme, decorative elements, outputting the correct files in exactly the right formt for the platform. All the little details that make publishing week i, week out a smooth and efficient process.
Add to that the need to bundle up stories to sell as collections, a slightly more difficult task.
With a little familiarity I can use both apps effectively. I don't need the behomoth capabilities of word and more importantly I don't need the learning curve to know how to do all the flourishes that lift my published story above those that are merely accepting the defaults.