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All Metadata in Scrivener

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Posted on February 3, 2021 by Ed Skinner

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Metadata describes or points to other data. In Scrivener, the metadata variable <$author> is the name for a project’s author. In my case, that’d be E D Skinner. There’s also metadata for the name of the current project, <$projectname>. It … Continue reading →

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Storylines in Scrivener

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Posted on January 27, 2021 by Ed Skinner

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Introduction Over thousands of years, storytellers have learned two things about people: They listen, read, or watch stories as escape from their lives, and They will sympathize with characters who fight and defeat powerful enemies, or that fight but succumb … Continue reading →

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A Simple Book in Scrivener

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Posted on December 31, 2020 by Ed Skinner

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Let’s say we just want to create a simple book, nothing fancy, with Scrivener. We have three chapters named In The Beginning, The Middle, and It End’th. In the first chapter, we have two scenes, one to get the action … Continue reading →

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Why Scrivener Isn’t WYSIWYG

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Posted on December 28, 2020 by Ed Skinner

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I started re-reading “The Compile Format Designer” chapter in the Scrivener Manual (Scrivener, Help -> Scrivener Manual, chapter 24) today. Note: The steps and screenshots that follow are for Scrivener 3.2.2 on a MacBook running MacOS Big Sur 11.2. If you … Continue reading →

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Goodbye WYSIWYG

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Posted on December 27, 2020 by Ed Skinner

If you know WYSIWYG, an abbreviation for What You See Is What You Get, you’ll remember that it promised to put the same thing on paper that you saw on the screen. That is, whatever your text looked like on … Continue reading →

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Tension and Growth

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Posted on October 31, 2019 by Ed Skinner

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Somebody, somewhere must’ve said, “Life is Growth.” While we’re alive, we experience change and we learn from it. In the beginning, we start small and grow bigger, learn how to walk, say “Mama,” and run without hitting walls. Why? Because … Continue reading →

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Fifth Estate User’s Manual

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Posted on October 22, 2019 by Ed Skinner

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The Fifth Estate includes social media, blogs, the internet in general, and all of us. Estates One, Two, and Three The first “three estates” describe the social hierarchy in medieval times. It consisted of the clergy, nobility, and commoners. But … Continue reading →

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Central Phoenix Writers Workshop

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Posted on April 7, 2019 by Ed Skinner

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Four nights a week, the Central Phoenix Writers Workshop meets to critique and commiserate. A recent Wednesday evening session is pictured above a half hour before the meeting begins. It draws twenty or so writers most of the year, with … Continue reading →

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Rules o’ Ritin’

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Posted on January 28, 2019 by Ed Skinner

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There’s lots of them, of course: punctuation, word choice, active versus passive voice and all that. Here’s one I just figured out: When you’re writing the draft, write the draft. The key point? DON’T EDIT! Just write. Don’t look at … Continue reading →

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NaNoWriMo Approacheth

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Posted on October 12, 2017 by Ed Skinner

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National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is almost here. [Sounds of gnashing teeth, scribbling pencils, fingernails on mouse pads and, most importantly, the repeated sharp “crack” as the slave driver limbers up his whip.] Since 1999, this annual event has helped … Continue reading →

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