As a writer of erotica, pounding the keyboard is something I do a lot, in addition to my pud, but that’s a completely different story. Normally, I would use Word or LibreOffice for writing but have started to venture into the use of Scrivener for my stories.

In a nutshell, Scrivener allows you to break up your document into sections or chapters. This is helpful when you are working on a section of a story. It’s somewhat like an outline where you list the topics or sections of a story. As I read what I’ve just written, my explanation doesn’t make a lot of sense. I’ll try a different method.

My followup story House Party 2, which starts to tie up the loose ends I created in House Party, is written using Scrivener. I know that I should never start learning a new tool when I’m actually trying to get something done, but I just closed my eyes and jumped in. After all how deep can the water be?

The screenshot shown here is part of the binder list. A binder is typically a chapter in my way of thinking and can hold one or more documents. In its simplest form, a story would have a binder for each chapter, and each binder would have one embedded document with the verbiage for the chapter.

It’s simple to drag binders up or down to move a chapter in case you want to reorganize your story. Likewise, you can grab documents and move them to other binders. When you are finished, Scrivener will compile your story and spit out the final work product in a number of formats.

What I’ve come to appreciate is the ability to instantly jump between sections. With a word processor, the writer deals with a single document, often thousands of words long. It involves searching or bookmarks to find the section needing work.

My typical erotic story is novel-length or greater than 50,000 words. So if I want to work on the gangbang scene, I can just click on the document to instantly open it without having to search through a long word processing document to find the section I want to edit.

Then when I get tired of all the moaning, grunting, and face painting, I can simply switch to another chapter and work on something else by clicking on the appropriate section. No longer do I have to search and find the section I want to work on. This is also an advantage when you think of an addition or change to a different chapter. It is easy to jump to another section, make the changes, and jump back.

My normal workflow depends on where I’m at and what I’m doing. One of my laptops is always in my hand. If I have a few minutes while waiting for something, I’ll just pick a section and start reading what I’ve written. Scrivener allows me to make notes or comments that don’t show up in the finished product, similar to Word’s comments.

If I’ve got half-an-hour, then I’ll actually write something if I feel productive. If I don’t feel productive, I’ll just read what I’ve previously written. As I’ve never been formally trained to write, plus being an engineer, my approach to writing is probably all wrong, but it seems to work for me.

A lot of books on writing, tell the writer to always write something every day to build up a good attitude towards writing. I find that it doesn’t work well for me, and I’ll just write junk if I’m not in the zone. Then I have to go back and do it over again, which is lost time and effort. In periods like this, I’ll just reread my previous scribblings if I don’t feel productive.

I tend to make notes a lot, and Scrivener allows me to jot down notes and thoughts on something. Being in the Lifestyle (swinging), we have an active social life, which includes a fair number of parties. We’re always being invited to someone’s house party, where you typically meet new people. And I’m not stupid, my drop-dead gorgeous wife has a lot to do with the invites we get. Every day I give thanks for being so lucky!

We’ll do something or see something that will be a good start to put into a story, so I’ll whip out my laptop and make notes about the event. I don’t take the laptop to a party but will leave it in the car. A lot of times, we’ll stop at Denny’s or a fast-food restaurant for a late-night snack afterward and discuss what we’ve seen or done.

Swingers as a group are very sociable and often end up somewhere swapping war stories, especially after a good party. I think voyeurism is one of the requirements of swinging, and listening to a hot story about what happened or witnessing is always neat.

I’ll jot down notes using Microsoft OneNote typically unless it would happen to fit into a story I’m currently working on, then I’ll note it in Scrivener. What I’ve found is that a good thread for a story will often slip my mind unless I commit it to paper (or electrons).

Many of the characters in my stories are fictionalized versions of people we run around with. I create fictional names for them, to protect the guilty, and often stuff them into a story exactly as they are. For swingers, privacy is the number one thing, and while a person may recognize themselves in a story, I change them up so that they are not identifiable to the general public.

Anyway, if you’re interested in Scrivener, give it a try. The program is available for PC and Mac’s at about $50 bucks each. I bought the bundled package for both my PCs and Macs at a reduced price. Right now, the new Windows version is in beta, and you can use it free of cost until they release the final version.

Scrivener’s website is https://www.literatureandlatte.com/

I’m Larry Archer, resident pervert at https://LarryArcher.blog and write explicit HEA porn, mostly about swingers, girl-on-girl, unicorns, and the Lifestyle. My porn is feel good and never any conflict that amounts to anything. In real life, we are a dedicated couple, and writing gives me the opportunity to talk about stuff we’ve seen or done, which would not be suitable around the water cooler at work.

My stories are loosely categorized as stroke porn with smut on every page. That’s one of the good things about an electronic reader, such as a phone, tablet, PC, or Mac, the pages don’t get stuck together. But keep in mind that a lot of cell phones are not waterproof, so don’t drop it in the toilet during moments of passion. For more on my stories, click the following link: https://LarryArcher.blog/stories

Stay tuned for my review of Lisabet Sari’s hot new book, Babes in Bondage, which will have you whipped into knots and begging for forgiveness. This is the 5th book in the Vegas Babes series, and everyone is hotter than the one before.

Lisabet’s Vegas Babes stories are her take on the characters I’ve created at The Fox’s Den, a.k.a. The Hottest Strip Club in Sin City. It’s interesting to see her take on my characters and FanFic at its best.

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I’m off like a prom dress!

Larry Archer https://LarryArcher.blog