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Posted on 1 April 2024
In Scrivener

This is the third of several blog posts which focus on Document Variables. Placeholders: Introduction to Document Variables considered the extent of these placeholders and provided an introduction to this topic. Placeholders: Title as a Document Variable looked at Title and ParentTitle. This blog post focuses on four items of metadata. Label Status Keywords Synopsis What is metadata? Metadata is 'data about data'. In the case of a novel, it's anything you might...

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Posted on 15 August 2022
In Scrivener

Step 10 = Ask for feedback Once second-fix editing is complete, what happens next? Asking for feedback At various times in the writing/editing process, you might decide to seek feedback from others. In my RedPen Editing cycle, this is Step 10. Once second-fix editing is done, and you feel as happy as you can be with what you've produced, you might send your manuscript to a developmental editor for professional guidance. This will involve an...

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Posted on 17 August 2020
In Scrivener

Metadata is data about data Metadata offers a way of documenting your manuscript: powerful for editing - I refer to metadata as the Editor's Friend in this blogpost - but it's also useful when you are writing that first draft - or during the planning stages. Note that I write in scenes - part of the story that happen at a place, at a time and involves a subset of the cast...

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Posted on 23 April 2018
In Scrivener

Metadata: Data about data A novel is a complex structure, not just a series of chapters broken into scenes, but a carefully woven plait of events and conversations, with interconnected themes, plots subplotslots, enacted by a cast of characters each of whom changes over time. Scrivener scores 10 out of 10 in providing metadata features that can simultaneously track the separate strands of the tale,  measure progress and allow the writer to...

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Posted on 13 October 2016
In NANO, Novel writing, Scrivener

Project keywords provide another way of recording metadata. As a reminder: I've renamed Label as Location - so I know where each scene takes place. Not changed Status - it will prove useful when I start to edit. I've set up custom metadata for POV - see the blog post on 16 October. Now, I'm going to use project keywords to record who appears within each scene, and then consider other options...

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