Managing A Scrivener-Style Snapshot Library In Ulysses On macOS

In two previous posts, Scrivener Snapshots in Ulysses and Use ‘Snapshots’ in Ulysses to Version Control Your Writing, I covered saving versions of your work into a ‘snapshots’ group or library within Ulysses. If you haven’t already read those posts, it will help if you do so now. In this post, I am going to […]

Use ‘Snapshots’ in Ulysses to Version Control Your Writing

I posted an article a while ago in which I outlined a method to take versions of Ulysses sheets, much the same as Scrivener takes Snapshots. That method worked quite well. But I have refined the process to make it even easier to save, store and restore versions of your work. In this, the first […]

Writing a scene that works

I have been working on a number of scenes in The Head Factory, mulling them over in my mind as I write. But something just wasn’t making sense with one of the scenes — where it fitted into the overall work and the way the scene was structured felt wrong. I wanted to bring one […]

Timeline App Case Study and Interview

Just a quick post to say that I was honoured and very pleased to have recently been interviewed by the wonderful people over at Aeon Timeline. A case study detailing how I use Aeon Timeline 3 to plan my novels went live on their website yesterday. Check it out if you want to know more, […]

Aeon Timeline 3 Launches

Over the past year and a half I have been heavily involved in the Alpha and Beta testing of Aeon Timeline 3. At its heart, Aeon Timeline does exactly what you would expect it to do. It allows users to generate timelines of events for the outlining and planning of projects. Either for Creative Writing, […]

A Hit Japanese Crime Novel that Rewards Reader Patience

SIX FOUR by Hideo Yokoyama, translated by Jonathan Lloyd-Davies, 656 pages, published by Riverrun I have to admit that nearly 300 pages into the 2012 million selling “Japanese crime phenomenon”, Six Four, by Hideo Yokoyama, I nearly gave up on it. Something I very rarely do with books. It’s a long, slow paced story littered […]

Scrivener Snapshots in Ulysses

I’m a big fan of Ulysses. Its mix of minimal writing environment and powerful features suits the way I like to write. I have, however, seen users of its main competitor, Scrivener say that they could never leave that software because of two main features: Snapshots and its Outliner. The purpose of this post is […]