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Posted on 3 July 2023
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Page Settings is one of the main places where placeholders have a role to play: specifying what appears in your headers and footers. This is the fourth post in the Placeholders series. The first post was an Introduction to the series. The second included an explanation of the coding involved in creating the tag words. The third focused on the most used tag word: <$n> which creates page numbers. Page numbers most...

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Posted on 25 October 2021
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Sketches pin down your people, places and props My RedPen Editing course called People, Places and Props explains the importance of these three essential components of any story. In a nutshell: People in a story are your characters. It would be strange to have a story that has no characters! Places are your settings. Each scene has a setting and a cast of characters involved at that moment in time. Within that setting, the characters...

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Posted on 17 August 2020
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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 27 July 2020
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It’s all about the Corkboard! The three Editing pane options are: your Scrivenings, your Corkboard or your Outliner view. In the previous post, I looked at Scrivenings. Next time, I’ll focus on the Outliner view. Today, it’s all about the Corkboard. Why use the Corkboard? The Corkboard is not compulsory! To write your text, you need Scrivenings, but you need not venture further into the Editing pane options if you'd rather not. However, the Corkboard,...

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Posted on 11 November 2019
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Project keywords provide another way of recording metadata. Why, and when, might you want to use them? In my The Golden Girls novel, I have eight characters, seven of whom who dine together each evening during their cruise. I also have several themes for this novel, for example: types of love; and the twelve topics in Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way. If I apply these as project keywords on a scene-by-scene...

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Posted on 28 October 2019
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Create your timeline within Scrivener Scrivener 3's custom metadata allows a date option. Perfect for keeping track of scenes on your timeline! Select a scene. Open the Inspector. Click on the icon for metadata (the middle of five icons). Click on the Set Up Metadata ...

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Posted on 30 April 2018
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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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