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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 16 September 2019
In Scrivener

Everything in one place - in the Binder One of the major benefits of using Scrivener to write a novel (or anything else!) is that everything you need is held within the one project file, within the Binder. That's assuming you put it there! Whenever I start a new novel, I set up the basics in the Binder: 100 Scenes, each with a target of 500 words (100 x 500 = 50,000...

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