#WritersCoffeeClub 11th Dec 2025. - How do you keep track of plots and subplots?
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#WritersCoffeeClub 11th Dec 2025. - How do you keep track of plots and subplots?
Mostly by writing in @scrivenerapp these days (since 2008) which makes it ridiculously easy to edit individual scenes in a subplot as a continuous scrolling text—and to resequence scenes and edit the deep structure of a book.
Seriously, Scrivener is as revolutionary a tool for writing books as the first word processors were for writing any kind of unstructured document.
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#WritersCoffeeClub 11th Dec 2025. - How do you keep track of plots and subplots?
Mostly by writing in @scrivenerapp these days (since 2008) which makes it ridiculously easy to edit individual scenes in a subplot as a continuous scrolling text—and to resequence scenes and edit the deep structure of a book.
Seriously, Scrivener is as revolutionary a tool for writing books as the first word processors were for writing any kind of unstructured document.
@cstross @scrivenerapp having just switched to Linux (from Win11) on my writing laptop, I wish they still made a Linux version. 🫤
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@cstross @scrivenerapp having just switched to Linux (from Win11) on my writing laptop, I wish they still made a Linux version. 🫤
@Bern @cstross @scrivenerapp Didn't know they ever MADE a Linux version! When did that happen and when can they bring it back????
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@Bern @cstross @scrivenerapp Didn't know they ever MADE a Linux version! When did that happen and when can they bring it back????
@dancingtreefrog
It was a few years back that they dropped Linux support. Not enough customers to cover development costs, sadly. Maybe that'll change in future, given the number of people running it via Wine and the increased interest in ditching windows for Linux. -
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@dancingtreefrog
It was a few years back that they dropped Linux support. Not enough customers to cover development costs, sadly. Maybe that'll change in future, given the number of people running it via Wine and the increased interest in ditching windows for Linux.@Bern @dancingtreefrog It was closer to 15 years ago! And it was a version of 1.4 for Windows—which uses the QT toolkit, which is also Linux-native. When it turned out that less than 0.8% of sales were for Linux, the writing was on the wall (it was a four person company). Scriv 3.x for Windows will allegedly run on Linux under WINE, with some quirks.
