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loving these videos i have added your books to my amazon list! can't wait to read them.

2025 and still informative and so well put together! ty for sharing this

Hi there, thanks for sharing such great information! I’m used to writing in Final Draft since I predominantly work on plays and scripts. However, I’m currently writing my childhood memoirs, and Microsoft Word is frustrating me to no end, so here I am! I’ve downloaded Scrivener on my iPad, but I can’t figure out how to access it from my laptop. Could anyone help me out? Thanks!

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I'm at the other end of the journey. I'm writing Act II of a 4 act structure of my first book. I'm sure I have over 150,000 words, but most of it has either been tossed or put toward future books. I'm trying to find a balance between pantsing and plotting. My chapters are too long. I'm still trying to plot the entirety of the story. But it has great bones. I enjoy reading my own story. And I still enjoy writing it. Sometimes it seems like the characters tell me what their stories will be. A minor side character will become so much fun to write about, then suddenly they are a main character, helping to drive the story along. Sometimes the process feels like painting in layers. I put down an exciting idea. Then I edit it to make it read more smoothly. Then I connect other characters and storylines. Then I add extra details for the 5 senses. Layer by layer, the vision in my head forms on the page, plus some things I hadn't envisioned. One of my challenges has been combining characters. I have an idea for a new character, but realize that their story would dovetail perfectly with an existing character. Then I have one character with more depth and across more themes of the novel--and less confusing for the reader. I'm hitting the point where everything feels like a compromise toward a more cohesive story. But I still can't quite see the end in sight. Writing a book is far more complicated than I ever expected. Addressing your current problems, I think coming up with a spark of inspiration is one of the hardest parts. What inspires you to build a new world? What story hasn't been told before? What thoughts are people on our world not having--what conversations? How do you make people feel that something which seems impossible is actually possible? Those sparks are hard for me to find. It's like plucking a fruit you've never eaten from a tree you've never seen before. And finding the right balance with a day job only adds more layers of complications to our own lives.

So obsessed with this and so proud of you! Cant wait to hear more about your next project 💗

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books look good, and don't seem to be as cursed as the things i listen to video essays about, so very cool!

Welcome back! You're home looks so cool and beautiful. I love the backdrop. I'd love videos of you exploring the city as you get back into writing and reading. Good luck on your writing this year with the last book and your new projects.

This is amazingly succinct! I followed someone else’s video months ago but got lost in their process. Yours is much easier for me to understand. Thank you for taking us step by step, and for the template. This is showing love to the writing community and I appreciate it!!

Thank you this is so helpful especially reading a bit before writing.

Thank you for these videos. I’ve been stuck in analysis paralysis for a year, starting over several times, not knowing how to nail a plot outline system that works for me. Your method makes sense and I’m excited to start using it!!

Brilliant!! Thank you sooooooo much. So very helpful. ❤

Do you HAVE to use Dropbox? I’m planning on just using IPad to create.

I loved this. It made so much sense to me and was so useful. Have you finished the book?

Hi Jessica- I am loving you're videos about how you think about and use Scrivener. I DO HAVE A QUESTION - I'd really love to know how you use keywords. I see how you use labels, and I get that they are for the big threads of the story. But what about keywords? Do you have a strategy for how you approach using them? I don't know if you're still doing these videos or if you'll see this, but that's my question. Thanks!

Thank you SO MUCH. This is exactly what I've been searching for. Great video. I love the separate plot folder and how you leave them intact and copy over parts into the plot weaving. I can't wait to try this.

That was very well presented and enlightening, but don't call me baby.😀

i keep coming back to this it's been real helpful thank you and God bless you :)

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right on thank you God bless you :)

thanks this was helpful God bless you :)

Change title of video. Misleading as the video was only about saving syncing and switching between platforms. Mentioned connecting scrivener to Dropbox but did not show how to connect the two apps. Disappointing.

Loved the examples here! Great video/editing on this

Dropbox is intrusive. Probably not better, but what about Google Docs?

In order to use Scrivener on both an IPad and a laptop do you have to purchase both versions separately thanks

I have an iPad and a PC and I’m using them both in interchangeably and a lot of the writing that I do which is basic writing. Do you know anything about scrivener articulating between the iPad and PC I have dropbox so if I use the iPad and save to Dropbox with my iPad, can I pull it up on my PC through dropbox

Glad I stumbled on this video today💕 I’ve always wondered how people used Scrivener to plot. I’ve only ever stuck with my main scene cards in my manuscript for plot notes and ideas for scenes. Thank you for showing me a completely different way to organize my ideas digitally!

Is the $25 iPad version worth the money? Thanks!

You just made my life so much easier! Thank you for using movie as references. I realized I'm a visual learner 😅

I need help! I don’t understand what I did wrong. I only have Scrivener for my iPhone. I do not own the computer version. I wanted to make sure that my project would be saved as a back up in case my phone or app ever crashed. So here’s what I did. I clicked on sync with dropbox and I logged into my Dropbox account. It gave me an error, and then it brought me back to Scrivener and all of my projects were gone? I wrote 3000+ words and they were just… Deleted. There’s no way for me to recover them. Since this happened, I’ve started copying and pasting my projects into my Google documents. But this is very time-consuming. I would like to know if I were to try again will it all work? I don’t know why it did that. And now I’m scared to try and make a back up.

Do you know how to get page view on Ipad?? I need some stuff to start on a new page, but it doesn’t show where a new page is🙈

I've felt in love with your content, Jessica. Your labour over here is really innovative, informative and different. Thanks for all of your effort!

The absolute best layout with multiple examples.

You explain things so beautifully! Love your plot structure format - just finished my messy first draft and plan to start plotting it out again to begin "weaving it all together". Wish you would make more videos! Thank you for this!

Thank you so, so much! This is EXACTLY what I've been looking for. I'm working on a Substack essay about prepping my creative projects, and I am going to link this video!

Your videos are so helpful. Thank you for taking the time to make such information-packed videos!

Brilliant! This is the first tutorial of Scrivener that is as clear and orderly as I have ever seen. Thank you very much and I wish you lots of success in your career! Greetings from Switzerland.

This is super useful and explained very straight forward. Thank you for that!

Thanks so much! Your video is great 🎉🙌

Do you know how this could work if a story has two romance arcs, with two separate couples?

Hi Jessica, thank u for your patience tutorial. Do you think is it possible saved and sync the same file on Dropbox but overwriting it and not with different files each time ?

Hi is it possibile overwriting the same file ? When I saved from my MacBook Pro I saw that there’s always a new one and the space on Dropbox is small . Could you help me ?

Thank you for this video! I’m curious what your recommendation would be: I can only afford Scrivener on one platform, either my desktop PC or my iPad. Which would you suggest I buy Scrivener on?

This video deserves wayyy more views! So many things just clicked for me and it just broke down the way I wanted to plot and outline in a far more coherent way. THANK YOU. I love the way you call it "weaving" as that is exactly what I wanted to achieve. So appreciative to find this.

I tried pantsing a story and it's not working well for me so I'm trying to figure out how to plot now.

Love your channel! It's really helped me organize my writing process so far. Thanks so much!

Very very helpful videos. Love your concise way of describing what you do and how you do it. Thank you for sharing!

this is so incredibly helpful thank you for sharing!!