m. c. de marco: To invent new life and new civilizations...

Here’s a link I didn’t get a chance to post during the NaNoWriMo madness: Scott Westerfeld’s tip on using Scrivener for pace charts:

Now, you may ask, what in the world is a pace chart? Basically, it’s any method you use to track the ups and downs of momentum in your book, the shifts from action to conversation to tension. Like all meta-docs, a pace chart allows you to step back from the trees of your text and see the forest.