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Posted on 15 April 2019
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Tell a book by its cover You can create a PDF of your manuscript to give to reviewers or to send to an agent or publisher. They are not expecting a cover. When you create an electronic version of your manuscript - an eBook or for Kindle readers - the cover is an essential component. Indeed, if you expand the Front Matter folder in the Binder, you'll find that Scrivener makes recommendations...

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Posted on 8 April 2019
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eBook is short for electronic book The process of outputting to an ebook format is similar to that used for a PDF, but with a few distinct differences. Set up a new format and save in My Formats You will repeat this process (or something very similar) for each new format: Select File / Compile Click on the PDF format under My Formats Click on the + sign and choose Duplicate & Edit...

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Posted on 25 March 2019
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Lots of things can go wrong when you compile! It is wise to compare the output with what you have in your manuscript. Step-by-step with a non-fiction book In my non-fiction book EDITING The RedPen Way, I wrote my Introduction as a sequence of scenes, using the guidance given at the Self-Publishing School. I explain how in this post. The net result is that my document titles are part of the manuscript; they form...

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Posted on 18 March 2019
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PDF stands for portable data format One of the absolute strengths of Scrivener is the opportunity to output the same material to a number of alternative media - each one suiting a different audience's needs or preferences. One of the easiest formats to create, and the easiest to check, is the PDF. PDF is a paged format which - unlike .doc used in Word - doesn't rely on the page settings on...

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Posted on 7 January 2019
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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....

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Posted on 26 March 2018
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Literature & Latte's Interactive Tutorial walks you through Literature & Latte are keen for users of Scrivener to get the best from their software. It is a sophisticated tool with hundreds of features, and learning how to use just the features you need may seem daunting. So, via the Help menu, Literature & Latte provide several tools, each one appealing to different learning styles. For those who prefer to read the manual, there is...

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Posted on 19 March 2018
In Scrivener, Training

Online training in Scrivener 3 is available for free At the Hope Cove Writers' Workshop Weekend (last weekend), I gave a quick demonstration of how Scrivener works. A few days ago, I heard via Facebook that the husband of one of the delegates - he's also a writer - has now bought the software. Excellent news! She emailed me almost immediately he'd installed Scrivener on his computer. Where and how does he start...

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Posted on 12 February 2018
In Scrivener, Training

Meet the Inspector While the Editing pane can show your Scrivenings, your Corkboard or your Outliner view, there is also an option to view the Inspector. The Scrivener workspace The basic workspace can be separated into three panes: The Binder on the left The Editing pane in the centre The Inspector on the right In Scrivener 2, with the Inspector 'open', it looks like this. In Scrivener 3, there's a new look to the Inspector pane. What's changed? The...

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Posted on 5 February 2018
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It's all about the Outliner! The Editing pane can show your Scrivenings, your Corkboard or your Outliner view. In a previous post, I looked at the bottom line of the Scrivenings; in last week's post, I focused on the Corkboard view. Today, it’s all about the Outliner view. The Outliner bottom line: comparing Scrivener 3 with Scrivener 2 In Scrivener 2, the Outline bottom line looks like this. In Scrivener 3, it's the same functionality on the left...

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Posted on 29 January 2018
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It's all about the Corkboard! The Editing pane can show your Scrivenings, your corkboard or your outline view. In the previous post, I looked at the bottom line of the Scrivenings; next time, I'll focus on the Outline view. Today, it's all about the corkboard. The corkboard bottom line: comparing Scrivener 3 with Scrivener 2 In Scrivener 2, the corkboard bottom line looks like this. On the left, there are five icons/displays - and, on the right, there are...

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