So, like many of the writers who commented on this post, I lost faith in the L&L team. The L&L team changed the date to “later in 2019” and told us it would be a matter of “weeks, not months.” In December, we got a vague release date of “in 2020.” The lead Windows developer promised to “commit and be held personally responsible” for a release later than that. I counted down the days until August 30, 2019, after the Literature & Latte team announced it as the release date. No free-form corkboard, no word count tracking, no mobile apps. When I was using Scrivener 1, it was miles behind Scrivener for Mac. At the time, I shared a laptop with my husband and also wrote on my tablet, which served as a decent substitute with a fold-out keyboard and decent RAM. I published this post in December 2019, after using Scrivener for more than a year and impatiently awaiting the Scrivener 3 for Windows release. So Scrivener seemed like the perfect solution to keep everything together.
That’s not to mention the writerly side of things: character sketches, chapter outlines, scene cards, and, of course, the drafts themselves.
Naturally, there’s a ton of primary research involved: photos, newspaper clippings, recordings of interviews with the family. Inspired by the life and legacy of my “Little Grandma”, the book covers 70 years and four generations of the Aldridge family. My novel-in-progress, Escape Artist, is a huge project.
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