Chad has some insight, and regrets, on choosing the title he did. We discuss what makes a good title and how to tell.

Episode 33B Chad Boyer Choosing a Title

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[Stephen Schneider] - All right, so we're back with Chad Boyer and we're going to have a discussion about book titles. But first before we do Chad, let's talk a little bit about what software you use and what services you use when you're writing.

[Chad Boyer] - Yeah, so my day job is a software developer, and so I like all of the tools but I realized that for writing you don't need all the tools. So I basically use Word with the navigation tab open and write there. I outlined in Word ahead of time and then just right over my outline. I save different copies out as I go. I do have, I mean it's basically a notepad but it's called Visual Studio Code which allows me to open a folder up all at once which then is where I keep all my notes. So it's just text files in there but I keep all my notes. Basically, I think it does with Scrivener does happen for you and once Scrivener comes out with a Windows version I will probably be, I mean they came out with it, but they say they're going to update it so I'm not buying it just yet.

[Stephen Schneider] - Yeah, I got Scrivener One and I used it because I found with Word it was too difficult cause I ended up writing a whole bunch of scenes separately and then trying to move them around because of better story order was just impossible. So Scrivener jumped out to me and like you I'm a computer guy so I'm like, oh, well, this is more focused towards writing and has some nice features and I was using it for a while and they've been working on the version three for Windows and they're trying to make it match the Mac version and it was promised almost two years ago to be done. And their, I'll give them credit they are still working on it. They are still fixing it. They are still making improvements and to be truthful been using the beta version of three for at least the last year and I haven't had any problems and I like it. I think the compile is a little wonky and difficult to learn and figure out.

[Chad Boyer] - Right.

[Stephen Schneider] - But other than that, I'm I'm having no problems with it.

[Chad Boyer] - Hm. All right. Yeah, I mean basically, I just uploaded the word document directly to Amazon so they compilled it all for me. And then when I kicked out the mobi file, I just picked up and put it into I think it's Caliber and use that to convert it to the other formats. So that wasn't too bad.

[Stephen Schneider] - Does Caliber work well for you because I had trouble with Caliber. it seemed to break, not break, but make my manuscript looked worse than it was.

[Chad Boyer] - Yeah, I mean, I've only done it, I haven't done it for publication cause right now I'm exclusive to Amazon, but I did it for those friends and family that wanted an epub version rather than a mobi version. So I didn't do a full walkthrough checking the formatting.