Formatting: An Introduction!
The next few blog posts will be all about formatting using Scrivener. Today: a few ground rules and explanations ...
The next few blog posts will be all about formatting using Scrivener. Today: a few ground rules and explanations ...
Today's the day - NaNoWriMo starts at midnight Let's start tonight! Before that? A Simply Scrivener Special The Simply Scrivener Special webinars will continue throughout November. There's one TODAY at noon. Click here to register your place. What we talk about depends on who comes and what questions are included in the questionnaire. Click here to complete yours. Then? For the month of November, my focus will be on writing that novel. So as not to bore...
Two weeks until we start NaNoWriMo2016, so it's time for the Kick-off webinar. All MLs will be publishing dates for the Kick-Off, Midway and TGIO face-to-face meetings. So, wherever you are in the world, there should be a NaNoWriMo2016 meeting near you. Kick-off! But, just like last year, I’ll be hosting a series of webinars, especially for those of you who can not get along with the live events with your local ML. My...
Setting targets The secret of winning NANO – going through that 50K barrier before time runs out on day 30 – boils down to setting targets and achieving your goals. The NaNoWriMo barchart plots your daily progress Under the Stats tab, you'll see this. Right now, it's showing nothing as we've not started yet. But, during November, each time you enter your word-count-to-date, the stats bar chart tells you how you’re progressing. If you’re...
Never tried the split screen option? Or have - and got into a pickle - read on. All is explained! What does the Scrivener screen look like, without a split screen? If you are looking at one scene, and choose Scrivenings view, you'll have the Binder on the left with your selected scene highlighted, the text of your scene in the centre Editing pane, and the Inspector on the right. Notice the icon in...
Rachel Hobbs, Today’s guest. Rachel is the author of e-books Bite-Sized Fiction For Busy People and up-and-coming Tall Tales For Humdrum Days. During the day, Rachel works as a full-time dental nurse at a small local practice in a little Welsh village in South West Wales. In her spare time, Rachel writes, and she uses Scrivener! Before Scrivener, Rachel, what did you use? Before I stumbled across Scrivener, I used Word. There’s nothing wrong with Word;...
Two weeks to go until we can start writing for real, and it's time to start creating the perfect writing space. The Scrivener workspace The basic workspace can be separated into three panes: The Binder on the left The editing pane with Scrivenings, or Corkboard, or Outliner in the centre The Inspector on the right Closing the Inspector pane The Inspector pane can be closed (and reopened) by clicking on the Inspector icon. You could then...
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...
The Label and Status options within the Inspector are valuable for metadata. But if you need more, you'll need to set up custom metadata. I've used Label for Location and am keeping Status for the progress of any scene. As well as this, I want to keep track of who has the POV (point of view) in each scene, plus who is present in each scene - and to access this data easily...
Writing a novel is never straightforward and one of the ways Scrivener can help is with the option to include metadata. What is metadata? Metadata is data about data. For a given scene, this might be any of the following details: Who has the POV (point of view)? Where does the action happen? When does the action happen? It could also be a note to yourself about how close to completion this scene is: ...