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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 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 30 April 2018
In Scrivener

Location, location, location It's up to you what data you assign to the Label field. I quite often use it for POV (point of view). With my 2012 NaNo novel Aide Memoire, though, there is only one POV so I'm using the Label field for the location of each scene. Setting up the Label field When you start a new project, the default settings for the Label field are Idea, Notes, Character Notes, Chapter, and...

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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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