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Earlier this month I was interviewed by Peggy Stanton for Famous Five Plus , and it was lovely meeting her again. However, in her summing up she said, and I quote “Inviting you here to my little chat studio was a great choice as it fits perfectly into my New Year’s resolution which is to brush shoulders with the rich and famous this year.” D’you know, I had to go back and read that twice. Was that me she was referring to? Or had she included someone else in the interview? Once I got over the shock of learning I was rich and famous, at least in Peggy’s eyes, I started to think about it. Was I rich? Was I famous? Well, let’s break it down into its individual parts. I started out thinking I wasn’t really rich at all, certainly not in monetary terms. You know, the folding crinkly stuff we keep in our wallets and purses, and the jingly stuff that usually takes up space in our pockets. My needs are simple, but there never seems to be quite enough of it. And even if I was r...

Scrivener for Windows or Mac http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.php      In March of this year, I wrote a post for Authors Electric called Discovering Scrivener, and in order to refresh your memory, if you click here, you can read it again.      When I started using this software program, I was in the middle of writing Missing Believed Dead , and I did wonder what effect it would have on the finished book. I’m a pantster, you see, not a plotter. I usually start with a scene and a character, then I play the what if game to see where the story goes. So, much of what I write is as big a surprise to me as it is to the reader. I like to think that if I don’t know whodunnit until I’m nearly at the end of the book, then it will be all the more difficult for the reader to guess.      Anyway my type of writing doesn’t lend itself easily to organisational tools and software, which is exactly what Scrivener is, an...