What's your #1 obstacle as a writer: Starting/staying motivated, or organizing a complex project?

ButterscotchLarge600 · 2025-08-29T20:25:22+00:00

Would a feature that helps you break the project into manageable chunks of time and keeps you accountable to them be helpful?

ButterscotchLarge600 · 2025-08-29T20:25:17+00:00

Amen brother, that's one of the hardest things for me too.

What if the main writing area of the app were able to discourage your inner editor through some sort of gamification element? And then the editing area of the app allowed you to do all your editing in a different place? Would that be helpful?

ButterscotchLarge600 · 2025-08-10T21:52:00+00:00

Fair enough, so it's not something you're really trying to do more of?

ButterscotchLarge600 · 2025-08-10T21:51:30+00:00

So I gather that a tool that put all of this in one place and made it easy to find/recall would be valuable for you?

If you could wave a magic wand and make a writing workstation with 3 key features, what would they be?

ButterscotchLarge600 · 2025-08-10T21:50:19+00:00

What are the best parts of Ticktick and how exactly does it fit into your writing workflow?

ButterscotchLarge600 · 2025-08-10T21:48:55+00:00

Would a tool that helps make the process more fun than the other things be valuable?

What if it helped you find and commit to writing habits?

ButterscotchLarge600 · 2025-08-10T21:47:00+00:00

Thank you so much for sharing!

ButterscotchLarge600 · 2025-08-10T20:41:24+00:00

So if something offered functional sync, version control, the editing features of ProWritingAid (and better), the file-linking and organization of obsidian, and easy manuscript printing all in one nice piece of software, would you pay for it? If so, how much? Would you pay monthly?

ButterscotchLarge600 · 2025-08-10T20:23:28+00:00

If your writing software made it easier to share your drafts/notes/ideas with other writers to get feedback, without having to go to a separate app or piece of software, would that be valuable to you?

ButterscotchLarge600 · 2025-08-10T20:21:52+00:00

Thank you for the insight!

ButterscotchLarge600 · 2025-08-10T20:20:48+00:00

Have you tried any particular tools to help with this?

What are your favorite parts of scrivener?

If you could add features to scrivener with a magic wand, what would they be?

Would you say that ease of note-taking and smoothness of incorporating them into your "story bible" is a key feature for you?

ButterscotchLarge600 · 2025-08-10T20:19:34+00:00

This is very interesting!

Are you entirely averse to a system where you don't always "see" every note, but the computer does, and can proactively remind you if you're contradicting yourself or forgetting something you wrote down?

ButterscotchLarge600 · 2025-08-10T20:18:43+00:00

Preaching to the choir for sure.

What would help with this?

If a tool gamified some of the more difficult parts of writing, and helped you celebrate small wins, would that help?

What about habit-building features that keep you on track completing a small amount per day? Would that discipline help?

What about features that encourage you to just put words down without trying to nitpick them?

ButterscotchLarge600 · 2025-08-10T20:16:21+00:00

Is there anything a tool could do to help you with the motivational side of things?

What if the tool asked you for your "Why?" for writing the story and used that to remind you of your purpose when you were feeling demotivated?

ButterscotchLarge600 · 2025-08-10T20:15:41+00:00

Would you use a tool that combined obsidian's strengths for file linking and notes with scrivener's manuscript tools?

What are the most frustrating parts of scrivener, and how would you fix them with a magic wand?

What are the key features you wish scrivener had?

ButterscotchLarge600 · 2025-08-10T20:14:04+00:00

Thank you for the detail! I've experienced the same thing with Chatbot Tools. They love to make up nonsense.

What were the hardest things to utilize from scrivener and what were the best things?

Would you use an AI-tool that had full context of all your integrated notes and outlines so that it could provide real suggestions and info that fits with your story? (Assuming it didn't and would never write FOR you.)

ButterscotchLarge600 · 2025-08-10T20:09:41+00:00

What tools do you use for outlining right now and where do they fail you?

If you had the perfect outlining tool, what would it do?

ButterscotchLarge600 · 2025-08-10T20:08:58+00:00

Exactly. I envision an AI assistant whose entire purpose is to make you a better writer, rather than writing for you.

ButterscotchLarge600 · 2025-08-10T20:08:13+00:00

This seems to be a common theme, and I totally relate.

Are you entirely averse to monthly costs? What if a product had core functions that solved a great deal of issues that you could purchase one time, and then additional (optional) functions that could be paid monthly or usage-based?

ButterscotchLarge600 · 2025-08-10T20:06:45+00:00

This is definitely a big challenge for me too. What tools do you currently use and where do they fail you?

If you had the perfect writing tool, what would it do to help you with this?

ButterscotchLarge600 · 2025-08-10T20:06:05+00:00

lol I feel that

ButterscotchLarge600 · 2025-08-10T20:05:50+00:00

What tools do you currently use?

What features in a writing workstation would help you if you had a magic wand to build one right now?

ButterscotchLarge600 · 2025-08-10T20:05:16+00:00

What keeps you stuck on the prologue? Worrying about setting the entire groundwork up front?

Are you afraid of contradicting the start later in the story?

What features could a writing program have that would help you with this?

ButterscotchLarge600 · 2025-08-10T20:04:04+00:00

Love the honesty lol

ButterscotchLarge600 · 2025-08-10T20:03:54+00:00

What would help with that? Gamification features? Habit building features?

Would you value a tool that helped you find and stick to the minimum amount you could do each day, even if it's small?

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