Your Guide To Scrivener: The Ultimate Tool For Writers

Your Guide To Scrivener: The Ultimate Tool For Writers

Learn to use the ultimate writing software: Scrivener. Allowing you to combine the various elements that make up your writing project, from outlines to research to note, Scrivener helped author Nicole Dionisio write two novels in a single year. <br /><br />Our manual outlines how to use Scrivener to make your writing better, and is useful for writers of all stripes – which includes you. <br /><br />It is 48 hours before your dissertation is due and, despite the chaos, you are trying to complete the final edits, because it’s the only choice you have.<br /><br />There is one problem — and it isn’t the pile of unclean dishes housing sea-green mold and chatty-vermin that has become your sink — it is your computer and it is time. You should be going faster then this, you put your blood-shot pounding head in your hands and groan, “Why am I going so slow? This computer is brand new... what is the problem?”<br /><br />It isn’t your computer’s specs. It is your writing process. It is because you have not yet started using Scrivener.<br /><br />It is opening up a new webpage or PDF every 15 minutes to fact-check research. It is switching back and forth be- tween this research, your outline, your bibliography, and your draft. It is waiting for your files to load, bouncing be- tween them, and getting lost in the quantity of windows on your computer screen or document.<br /><br />Scrivener has two key features: it loads all documents at once and it has many visual organizational tools. Scrivener has optimum productivity, thus it gives writers more time to actually write and accomplish their goals.<br /><br />This manual outlines: <br />-Planning your manuscript<br />-Importing existing documents into Scrivener<br />-Collecting your notes<br />-Organizing files and documents within Scrivener<br />-Keeping track of your characters for fiction writing<br />-Bringing it all together and writing your manuscript<br />-The editing process, including sharing with beta readers.<br />-Publishing your masterpiece online