Using Vellum As A Writing Tool👈😍

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Vellum is a software designed and intended for book formatting: you can preview what your book looks like on several devices (and print interiors), and you can export your book to any standard ebook format and many standard print pdf interior files. It’s pretty awesome.

I’ve been using it as a writing tool, not just as a publishing tool, because I’m weird. Actually, I just got frustrated with Scrivener’s wonky device-syncing, and I’ve never liked using google docs (or anything similar such as MS Word or Pages or whatever).

Since I know I’ll have to put my book into Vellum eventually anyway, and my first-choice editor likes to read on her iPad and write handwritten comments with her apple pencil (actually, I like to do this when I’m editing my own work or others’ too…), I’ve adapted to writing directly into Vellum.

Sidenote: For editing, I export a pdf from Vellum, which I or my editor can import into Notability and then scribble on to our heart’s content. Once the comments are done, we can export the Notability note as a pdf complete with scribbles. I love this because you can circle something without having to write “you misspelled this word” or you can put a question mark next to a place where you’re confused. Non-verbal reactions for the win.