Thank God for the Scrivener App!

One thing I have learned recently is that, when trying to write and finish a novel, life will sometimes get in the way.

With me and my family, life changed recently. My wife had been trying to get back into work after being a stay-at-home-mother for the last eighteen years. She kept getting rejected for jobs she applied for, or just ignored for others. One day, she got a phone call while cooking dinner, from a local store she'd applied for. She went in for the interview, got the job, and has been working for a couple of weeks now. Suddenly, I found my time to write getting cut short. My wife had been manning the fort so I could write and get books out, as per an agreement. She's my biggest fan, but we both knew the day would where she would eventually go back to work.

I started meeting her from work, because I didn't want her walking home alone at night, and doing other chores she usually did, like taking our eldest son for his driving theory test. It meant a lot of waiting around for long periods of time with nothing to do. Since I had a book I was trying to finish,  I started using the Scrivener app on my phone. Now, to be clear, I had owned the mobile app for a while, using it to tweak what I've written on the desktop version when not at home. I'd write little bits on breaks at work also, but nothing major.

I started using it when waiting for my wife to finish, ten minutes before I was about to leave to meet her, and then for longer periods when on a lunch break at my job. I made up for a lot of lost time on my current project, and am much near to finish it as a result. When the weekend comes, I have noticed I write with more of a passion, because I have a bigger appreciation for my writing time. I'm also more appreciative of those free ten or fifteen minutes because I can make good use of them.

I have long been a champion of Scrivener and what it can do for us writers, but even more now. I've also used the app to write character bios, record plot research, and, of course, finish books that little bit more. I know this blog post probably reads like a huge advertisement for the program, and I suppose it is in a way. I have come to appreciate it a lot more because of what it can do for me in those few quiet moments I have.

My wife is happy being back at work, but she still nags me to finish my latest project so she can read it. I do my best to finish these books, because who am I to disappoint? Thanks to the Scrivener app on my phone, I now finish my works that little bit quicker.