As I learn more and more about the craft of writing, I find myself laying out more and more elements for a scene: structure, story elements, plot elements, emotion beats, even Kowal’s yes-but and no-and strategy she mentions on Writing Excuses (Jill Williamson describes it here).
To wrap my brain around it, I turned to Scrivener and fell in love, yet over time it felt clunky and awkward. I waited for Scrivener 3 for Windows with greedy anticipation. And waited and waited…
Then I found airtable.com and fell in love again. Now I have my scenes setup and organized. My only caveat: the timeline view of my scenes requires a paid subscription. I don’t begrudge them that, though.
Here’s some screenshots of my scenes in airtable:
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