#Dabble vs scrivener pro

#Dabble vs scrivener pro

Pro Tip: If you decide on multiple Plot Grids for your book, only include one Manuscript Grid Plot style, to prevent mass hysteria and Chapter/Scene confusion. The possibilities abound! Multiple Plot Grids are perfect for plotting a series of books, or having a finished plot and a continuous work-in-progress plot, or a main plot and a sub-plot fully plotted out, etc. You don’t have to jump back to the Plot Grid to read your notes! #WinĬaveat I: You can add notes to a manuscript without using a Plot Grid by typing them into the Scene cards in the right-hand nav when writing your Chapter.Ĭaveat II: You can have one Manuscript Plot Grid for each book and as many Generic Plot Grids as you want. Scrivener is by far the more complex but better, it seems to me, for multi-threaded stories. Today I flit between both depending on the project. Clicking the next Scene or Chapter from the left-hand nav menu displays the next row of the Plot Grid.Ĭlicking on the Scene notes also displays the Plot Points. I was an early user of Scrivener, a piece of software I still admire and use, and later adopted Ulysses, a lovely app on the Mac and iPad that combines power with simplicity. You get the same version on Windows and Mac (no waiting 3 years for the Windows version). The cards you see in this image are from the first row of the Plot Grid, since we’re writing the first Scene.

In your Manuscript, the right-hand column contains the current Scene card and all the Plot Points from the Plot Grid in the same row as that Scene card.