Synopses & Reviews
Far more than a word processor, Scrivener helps you organize and brainstorm even the most complex writing project, bring together your research, and write more efficiently and successfully than ever before. Long available for Mac, there’s now a Windows version, too. Thousands of writers and aspiring writers are discovering this powerful, low-cost tool. Now, there’s an up-to-the-minute, easy guide to the latest versions of Scrivener for both Mac and Windows: Scrivener Absolute Beginner’s Guide .
Written by working novelist and experienced computer book author Jennifer Kettell, this guide doesn’t just present features and menus: it presents Scrivener in the context of your creative workflow, so you can make the most of this amazing software. Kettell draws on years of Scrivener experience and private tutoring to help you use Scrivener in both fiction and non-fiction projects, including screenwriting and academic writing.
This book is as authoritative as it gets. Kettell not only wrote it in Scrivener: screen captures show her work in progress, and identify powerful ways to use Scrivener to improve productivity. Her book has been tech edited by the Literature & Latte software team member who serves as main liaison for the Scrivener Windows product to ensure that the Windows version is covered as thoroughly as the Mac version.
You’ll learn how to:
· Integrate Scrivener into your own personal workflow
· Get to know Scrivener’s interface and customize it to your workstyle
· Write, organize, storyboard, plot, and edit your document
· Create custom templates to manage manuscripts, brainstorming, and research
· Use keywords and metadata to keep track of complex projects
· Track your progress and backing up your work
· Generate a completed manuscript
· Create an e-book from your manuscript
· Discover new uses for Scrivener
Throughout, Kettell clearly identifies differences between the Mac and Windows versions of Scrivener, so you’re never frustrated by searching for a feature that isn’t there. Scrivener Absolute Beginner’s Guide is simple, clear, non-technical, and written from the viewpoint of a professional writer for other writers. It’s the Scrivener guide thousands of writers have been waiting for.
Synopsis
Far more than a word processor, Scrivener helps you organize and brainstorm even the most complex writing project, bring together your research, and write more efficiently and successfully than ever before. Long available for Mac, there’s now a Windows version, too. Thousands of writers and aspiring writers are discovering this powerful, low-cost tool. Now, there’s an up-to-the-minute, easy guide to the latest versions of Scrivener for both Mac and Windows: Scrivener Absolute Beginner’s Guide .
Written by working novelist and experienced computer book author Jennifer Kettell, this guide doesn’t just present features and menus: it presents Scrivener in the context of your creative workflow, so you can make the most of this amazing software. Kettell draws on years of Scrivener experience and private tutoring to help you use Scrivener in both fiction and non-fiction projects, including screenwriting and academic writing.
This book is as authoritative as it gets. Kettell not only wrote it in Scrivener: screen captures show her work in progress, and identify powerful ways to use Scrivener to improve productivity. Her book has been tech edited by the Literature & Latte software team member who serves as main liaison for the Scrivener Windows product to ensure that the Windows version is covered as thoroughly as the Mac version.
You’ll learn how to:
· Integrate Scrivener into your own personal workflow
· Get to know Scrivener’s interface and customize it to your workstyle
· Write, organize, storyboard, plot, and edit your document
· Create custom templates to manage manuscripts, brainstorming, and research
· Use keywords and metadata to keep track of complex projects
· Track your progress and backing up your work
· Generate a completed manuscript
· Create an e-book from your manuscript
· Discover new uses for Scrivener
Throughout, Kettell clearly identifies differences between the Mac and Windows versions of Scrivener, so you’re never frustrated by searching for a feature that isn’t there.
Scrivener Absolute Beginner’s Guide is simple, clear, non-technical, and written from the viewpoint of a professional writer for other writers. It’s the Scrivener guide thousands of writers have been waiting for.
About the Author
Jennifer Kettell switched from being a long-time Windows user to working on a Mac in 2006 for the primary purpose of being able to use Scrivener for her fiction writing. Since then, she’s written several tutorials, given workshops, and helped many other writers adopt Scrivener as the keystone of their writer’s toolkit. Jenn is the author of My Kindle Fire HD, and has written or contributed to more than two dozen other books. When Jenn isn’t writing about technology, she writes romantic fiction. She’s a member of Romance Writers of America and recently served as president of her local chapter. Jenn has lived all over the United States, but currently resides in upstate New York. She loves to read, debate current events, and do all manner of puzzles, but she spends the better part of every day thinking of ways to torture the fictional characters who live in her head.
Table of Contents
I. Getting to Know Scrivener
1. Introduction
2. Getting to Know the Scrivener Interface
3. Customizing Your Work Environment
4. Writing in the Editor
5. Organizing the Binder
6. Storyboarding with the Corkboard
7. Plotting in the Outliner 8. Organizing Your Research
9. Writing in Full-Screen Mode
10. Editing Your Manuscript
II. Digging Deeper into Scrivener
11. Digging into the Inspector
12. Putting Keywords and Meta-Data to Work
13. Creating and Using Template Sheets
14. Creating and Using Project Templates
15. Brainstorming with Scrivener
16. Searching Your Project
17. Tracking Your Progress
18. Backing Up Your Work
19. Taking Scrivener Out and About
III. Generating a Completed Manuscript
20. Compiling a Novel
21. Creating E-Books
22. Learning the Basics of MultiMarkdown
IV. Using Scrivener in Other Scenarios
23. Screenwriting in Scrivener
24. Using Scrivener for Academic Writing
25. Discovering New Uses for Scrivener