5/26/2023 0 Comments Macdropany![]() ![]() ![]() I use it in tandem with Scrivener to store my files online and offline. In 2015, he’s moving to New Zealand with a couple of lovely ladies and a burning desire to claim Hobbiton as his own.ġ1 responses on “ A Killer Combo for Writers – Dropbox + Scrivener”Īnother option is Google Drive. As a freelance writer, he has produced a metric ton of role-playing game work both in print and online, including the Firefly Roleplaying Game, Legend of Five Rings, d20 System, and the science fiction MMORPG, EVE Online. Travis Heermann’s novel Spirit of the Ronin, will be published in June, 2015.įreelance writer, novelist, award-winning screenwriter, editor, poker player, poet, biker, roustabout, he is a graduate of the Odyssey Writing Workshop and the author of Death Wind, The Ronin Trilogy, The Wild Boys, and Rogues of the Black Fury, plus short fiction pieces in anthologies and magazines such as Perihelion SF, Fiction River, Historical Lovecraft, and Cemetery Dance’s Shivers VII. I was able to go to previous versions of the files in Dropbox and recover the version where three chapters had not been mysteriously eaten. This combination once saved me about a week of work on a novel, which in other circumstances would have been lost. You can customize how often Word autosaves in the Options menus. If you’re averse to Scrivener, even saving your Word files in Dropbox helps minimize the damage caused by corrupted files. With Dropbox saving multiple versions of your files, you can restore previous versions, which minimizes the damage file corruption can cause. This work also syncs whatever devices you connect, simultaneously. Put your Scrivener project files into Dropbox, and your work will be constantly saved by the keystroke, and automatically backed up to the Dropbox cloud in real time. Scrivener basically saves your work by the keystroke.ĭropbox + Scrivener = Nightmare-free Writer Dreams-Perhaps you’re starting to see the usefulness here when these two beauties are synergized (that’s my 50-cent word for the day). It’s so versatile that I’m still learning all the features, but here’s the part that’s relevant to this discussion. Scrivener, however, is what I use for creative writing. I still use both, but for different things. It works on a different philosophy than MS Word, so each has its strengths and weaknesses. ![]() Developed by Literature and Latte, Scrivener is a writing package that focuses on the creative and organizational aspects of writing. Scrivener-If you’ve been around writerly circles much, you’ve probably heard of Scrivener. For $9.99/month, you get 1 TB of storage space. This is plenty of space for basic writer stuff, and I used this alone for several years until I finally outgrew it. In effect, it saves your work at every step along the way.īasic Dropbox is a free service, up to 2 GB. Your work is also saved on the Dropbox website, and here’s one its most valuable features: from the Dropbox website, you can access previous versions of your files. The Dropbox folder acts like every other folder on your computer, except that all those files sync to all the devices linked to your account, computers, phones, tablets, etc. I use a couple of tools that are useful in and of themselves, but together, form an ironclad system for saving your work, susceptible only to nuclear apocalypse or alien invasion.ĭropbox-Dropbox is a service that lets you save all your documents in a regular-looking folder on your computer. I’m here to offer you a way to make that nightmare go away forever. This is, of course, the Writer’s Worst Nightmare, right up there with that one where they call your name to the podium to accept your Hugo/Nebula/Booker Prize/Oscar and you realize you’ve forgotten to put on clothes. Perhaps you retire for the day, unaware that horror has spawned, try to open up your project the next day and bask in the glow of its brilliance, and find … you don’t find it at all. Perhaps your computer crashes in the middle of your brilliant opus. You are the next NYT bestseller, the next National Book Award winner. The chapter you’ve been working on was near perfect. Perhaps it happens after several hours of writing, wherein you have finally squeezed gold-GOLD dammit!-from your fingertips. Your rickety old 386 DOS-machine coughs up semi-colons and expires in mid-sentence.
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