Three Ways to Mark the Status of Items in Your Scrivener Project
There are three ways to mark the status of items in your Scrivener project, which you can view in the Binder, Corkboard, Outliner, and Inspector.| Literature & Latte
There are three ways to mark the status of items in your Scrivener project, which you can view in the Binder, Corkboard, Outliner, and Inspector.| Literature & Latte
Scrivener’s philosophy is based on the awareness that many, if not most, writers don’t write long works from beginning to end, but rather jump around and build their projects in a non-linear manner. You write in the Editor, but Scrivener has three main ways to organize and rearrange your project: the Binder, Corkboard, and Outliner.| Literature & Latte
The Scrivener Inspector shows you information about the files and folders in your Scrivener projects and lets you add information about them as well. The Inspector has five sections: Synopsis & Notes, Bookmarks, Metadata, Snapshots, and Comments & Footnotes. See Get to Know the Scrivener Inspector to learn more about these.| Literature & Latte
When you’ve finished writing a novel, it’s time to submit it to agents in the hopes of getting published. If you write short stories, articles, or poems, you may regularly submit your work to journals and magazines. It’s important to attract these submissions so you know when you sent them, whether you got a response, and, for stories, articles, or poems, when they were published.| Literature & Latte
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Scrivener is a tool for writing long-form projects, as well as screenplays, short stories, poems, and more. As a complete writing environment, you can use Scrivener for other tasks related to your writing. For example, a previous article discussed how to track submissions for each project within the projects; see Create a Writing Submission Tracker in Scrivener.| Literature & Latte
Every Scrivener project has three root folders: Draft (or Manuscript, in some templates), Research, and Trash. Other project templates have additional folders, such as Characters, Places, Front Matter, Notes, and others, but these three folders are present in every project.| Literature & Latte
The Binder is the heart of your Scrivener projects. It’s where you build the structure of your work, whether it’s a novel, essay, or screenplay, and it’s a constant reminder of how your project is formed. Some people may only use a couple of folders and texts in the Binder, and others may break down their projects into dozens of elements.| Literature & Latte
Scrivener’s Binder is where you organize your projects, in folders and files, and this is reflected in the app’s dedicated Outline view. Many people like working in Outline view, because it’s a familiar way to view the elements of their projects. But you can also use the Binder to create an outline and rearrange it, and, in some cases, this is more powerful and flexible than the Outline view.| Literature & Latte
The Scrivener Binder lets you organize your projects in texts and folders, and you can use these texts for chapters, sections, or even scenes. We discussed this in Use Folders and Texts to Power Up the Scrivener Binder. As your project progresses, you may want to combine certain texts, or split others, as you refine your project and its direction.| Literature & Latte
In previous articles about customizing the Scrivener editor, I discussed setting up the Editor space, and customizing fonts in the Editor. This week I want to talk about using styles to format your Scrivener projects.| Literature & Latte
In last week’s article, I explained how you can tweak the Editor to make it more comfortable to use. I discussed zooming to change the display, setting the Editor width, and adjusting margins, along with some other elements that you can change in Scrivener’s options.| Literature & Latte
In previous articles, we’ve discussed the importance of setting up an author platform. This includes choosing a domain name for branding, setting up a website, maintaining a social media presence, and using outreach to help people find out about you and your books.| Literature & Latte
Your author platform contains many planks. We have seen in previous articles how the key element of your author platform should be your website, and how the domain name you use is an essential part of your brand. The other important element of your author platform should be your social media presence. While not every author needs to be present on social media, and many don’t like using social media at all, it is the way many people will discover your books and stay up to date when you h...| Literature & Latte
In recent articles, we’ve looked at the importance of setting up an author platform to market your writing, and how to choose a domain name for your online branding. In this article, I will discuss the most important element of your author platform: your website. This is the hub of your author platform, which readers can use to find out about your books, learn more about you, and keep up to date on your activities.| Literature & Latte
In previous articles, we’ve looked at setting up an author platform: reserving your domain name, which is your brand; setting up a website; and using social media. The next step is looking at how you can market your book using media outreach.| Literature & Latte
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In 1950, in the United States, there were about 11,000 books published, and of these, about 1,200 were fiction. (Source: McSweeney’s.) Twenty-five years later, nearly 40,000 books were published, and 2,400 of these were fiction. In that period, publishing saw the rise of the paperback, a doubling of the number of children’s books published (just slightly less than fiction, at around 2,100), and a near tripling of books classified as “poetry, drama,” reaching 1,100.| Literature & Latte
One reason many people like Scrivener is that, unlike most word processors, you don’t have to constantly scroll back and forth to see different parts of your work. When you’re writing chapter 17, and need to see what a character did in chapter 5, you don’t have to scroll, scroll, scroll, but just click the folder or document for that chapter in the Binder. (Read this article to learn how to leverage the full power of the Binder.)| Literature & Latte
As you certainly know, it’s essential to back up your Scrivener projects so you don’t lose any of your hard work. Scrivener makes automatic backups to your computer, but it is important to also back up your files to an external drive or cloud service, in case you have problems with your computer. See How to Back Up Your Scrivener Projects for more on backing up projects.| Literature & Latte
Your Scrivener project is a container for a lot of things. It contains your manuscript, with its files, folders, and sub-folders, but it also contains elements like character and place documents, research, front and back matter, and more. Rather than thinking of it as a file, you should think of it as a package.| Literature & Latte
Sometimes, as you write, you want to add notes to your work that aren’t part of the text. These can be reminders to check something, parenthetical comments about how you plan to develop a scene, or footnotes to cite references.| Literature & Latte
The Scrivener window contains many elements. In addition to the main Editor, where you compose your texts, there is the Binder, which gives you an overview of your projects, and the Inspector, where you can see notes, comments, snapshots, and more. Above and below these three main elements is a Toolbar, a Format Bar, and more.| Literature & Latte
Are you a planner or a pantser*? Do you meticulously flesh out the details of a story, novel, or screenplay, or do you just wing it? If you write non-fiction, do you itemize each chapter and section before you start writing?| Literature & Latte
Scrivener offers three ways to organize your projects: the Binder, the Outliner, and the Corkboard. We’ve looked at how you can Use Folders and Texts to Power Up the Scrivener Binder, and how you can Plan Your Project with Scrivener’s Outliner. We have also examined how you can outline with just the Binder.| Literature & Latte
Note: This blog post pertains to upcoming features in Scrivener 3, which will be released on macOS later this year and will follow on Windows during early 2021.| Literature & Latte
The Editor is the section in the Scrivener window where you do your writing. While the Binder and Inspector are important, because the former helps you structure your projects, and the latter lets you store additional information about your texts, the Editor is where you probably spend the most time when working with Scrivener.| Literature & Latte
Literary agents are part of the overall publishing ecosystem and are gatekeepers between authors and publishers. If you want to have your book published by a traditional publisher, it’s nearly impossible to do so without having an agent. Most large publishers don’t accept unsolicited manuscripts directly from authors; they generally rely on literary agents who screen and recommend manuscripts.| Literature & Latte
You may spend years writing a book, and when you’ve finally completed a final draft that you think is good enough to go out into the world, the next step is to seek publication. If this is your first book – fiction or non-fiction – then the process of how a book gets from your manuscript into readers’ hands can be quite complex and can take a long time. It can be helpful to understand the many steps of publication, so you know what you’re in for.| Literature & Latte
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It’s great to sell your first book, and you’ll discover the joy of publication, but you’ll also have to deal with contracts and advances. Hopefully you have an agent to do this for you, someone who understands the often obscure terms in publishing contracts and helps you navigate the financial issues around your book.| Literature & Latte
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When you’re working on a project in Scrivener, the Binder is your organizational tool. You create folders and texts, and use them to structure your work. You could just have a single text, and write like Jack Kerouac on a scroll, but then you wouldn’t get the benefit of being able to rearrange chapters, sections, and scenes in the Binder. Understanding how to use the Binder is the key to working with a Scrivener project.| Literature & Latte
In recent articles, I’ve looked at how you can customize the Scrivener Editor. I began by explaining how you can set up the editor to your liking, then discussed how to choose default font settings so all your documents look the way you want, and then I introduced styles, showing how you could go beyond the basic font settings.| Literature & Latte
The Scrivener window has three main elements: the Binder, the Editor, and the Inspector. Previous articles have looked at how you manage files and folders in the Binder, and how you can customize the Editor.| Literature & Latte
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