Have you heard of Scrivener? If you haven’t heard about it on the writerly grapevine, first: what’s your secret for brain organisation? And second, if you’re struggling with exactly that, and if you’re a writer, this post might land. Maybe you have heard of it and are wondering: is Scrivener any good? Is Scrivener worth it? Doesn’t Microsoft Word or Google docs do the same thing? Well, in short: Yes, it’s good, it’s worth it, and no, other software doesn’t offer what it does; while other software has many of the same features, none of them have quite the same package
Tag: characters
There is a truth at the centre of a fictional work waiting to be found, interpreted, and applied where possible. Human emotion and experience, and everything that makes a story relatable provides us with a connection far beyond the reach of our ever-shrinking social circles.
There are certainly more strong female characters in fiction now than ever before, but even with these changes, there is just as certainly, room for a wider and fairer portrayal of the world of women in media, and always cause for celebration of those which have stood out. The Damsel in Distress has thankfully, mostly, screamed her last plea for help, and we hear a lot about Kick-Ass Females in both book and movie culture but it seems to me that we often have a slightly different idea of what makes a woman ‘strong’. I love a fictional heroine who