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It’s simple if you know how When you start a new Scrivener project for your latest novel, how long is it before you want to change the font? How frustrated do you get when Scrivener wants to work in a different one from the font you prefer? Problem solved! When you open a new project, for the Novel template, in the Binder, there are two items set up for the Manuscript: a folder called...

Seeing the wood for the trees Literature & Latte released Scrivener 3 for the Mac over a year ago and, with it, Styles. Pretty soon PC users, with Windows, will be enjoying this version of Scrivener. To date, I've managed without using styles but I think it's about time I (and you) became acquainted with this new feature. So, this first series of blog posts for 2019 is all about Scrivener Styles....

The calm after the storm? It's a fact. The excitement of completing NaNoWriMo in the final days, hours or minutes of November results in such an adrenalin rush. Afterwards, life falls a bit flat! So, how can we cope with the post-NaNoWriMo vacuum? Apart from reconnecting with family and friends who hardly recognise you - and spending time enjoying the festive season - here are my top 5 tips. Post-NaNoWriMo TIP 1: Keep on writing You've made a habit...

Ideas are precious Many years ago, six to be precise, I saw a television programme featuring Ian Rankin, in which he explained his writing process: one book per year and each one start with Ian flicking through the contents of a green folder. This manilla folder is full of ideas he's collected in the past year. Clever idea! You can read all about Ian's methods here. Using Scrivener to collect ideas Ideas can come at any...

  2.5 days to go With only 2.5 days left before we can actually start to write, let's check we are all tooled up. 3 essential tools The three essential tools for me are composition mode, annotations and backing up. Tooled up: Composition mode Scrivener offers the option to dive into composition mode, which clears the screen of everything but the piece I am writing. Perfect writing conditions. (you choose your own wallpaper!) For Scrivener 2 users, this blog post explains...

Time for the Kick-OFF! This week is a Kick-Off week for NaNoWriMo. When you sign up to the NaNoWriMo site and choose your region, you’ll find you have an ML – and that person is responsible for organizing meetings before, during and after NaNo. I’m ML for Europe :: England :: Cornwall. Tracey is our co-ML and she lives in Truro so you'll see more of her than me, maybe. What is the KICK-OFF? The KO (short for...