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- Overview and Introduction
- I use Scrivener in novel writing
- Also any long-form writing project (ICJF)
- Many use it for Academic Projects
- Creating A Project
- Templates
- Areas of the the Screen
- Binder (combines, wp, notes, web pages, etc.)
- Inspector
- Notes (document & Project)
- Keywords and meta-data
- Labels & status
- Word targets
- Split Screen
- Full Screen
- Live Demo
- Music of Sci-Fi essay for PerihelionSF
- Divided into separate text documents
- Don’t have to search whole document for the part I want to work on
- Research folder – Websites, pictures
- Split Screen
- Project Statistics – Between 3 and 4K
- Full Screen – No distractions
- Compile
- Separators
- Transformations
- Footnotes and endnotes
- Choice of WP and Display Formats
- Iowa City Jazz Festival Stage Script
- Example of a unique use
- Structure that repeats
- Way easier to duplicate document and move around that block, copy and paste the text.
- Prisoner
- Novel Format
- Naming/numbering scheme for scenes and folders
- Scene/beats names don’t compile
- Synopsis
- General notes
- Document notes
- Labels and Status
- Corkboard View
- Corkboard View
- Research Folder
- Characters
- Places
- Some templates are offered. You can find others online.
- Outline View
- When it’s time to submit, export as a word doc. Or, export first 3 chapters and outline of the rest.
- Compiling (Prisoner Final Mobi)
- My publisher doesn’t know much about ebooks, so I took care of it.
- When I received the final edited manuscript, I created a new project, and pasted all the material in, just as it would look for the paper book.
- Included Front Matter
- Tweaked the Compile Style quite a bit
- 3-space indent, rather than 5.
- KindleGen
- Other Cool things
- Insert images and graphics
- Footnotes/endnotes
- Table of contents automatically generated.
- Online Resources
- YouTube Videos
- Web Tutorials and Resources
- Purchasing