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Which Template?

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Posted on September 3, 2021 by Ed Skinner

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When a new idea gets my juices flowing, I want to write it down before it gets away. If I’m at my notebook computer, a new Scrivener project is ideal. I click File -> New Project and then… Damn! Scrivener … Continue reading →

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Labels, Labels, and Labels in Scrivener

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Posted on July 28, 2021 by Ed Skinner

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If it’s in the Binder, you can assign it a label, but only one label. That seems rather limiting, don’t you think? Well, yes and no. Let’s explore a little bit. Here’s the set of labels in one of my … Continue reading →

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Designing for Writing (Plottr then Scrivener)

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Posted on May 14, 2021 by Ed Skinner

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Plotters plan a story’s major events, then they write using that guide. (Pantsers, on the other hand, simply jump right in to the writing and “see where it goes.”) I’ve mentioned the Seven Point System in other posts. For additional … Continue reading →

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From Scrivener to WordPress [Blog]

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Posted on February 20, 2021 by Ed Skinner

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Introduction WordPress’ WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) view is great for simple posts. With it, I can dash off a few paragraphs, throw in an image or two, emphasize some words and bold-face others, and hit Publish. … Continue reading →

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Learning Scrivener

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Posted on February 6, 2021 by Ed Skinner

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Scrivener is for big writing such as novels and non-fiction books. It is also wonderful with briefer works such as short stories, blog posts, and things that start small but might later bloom. To cope with the big works, Scrivener … Continue reading →

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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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