There's a famous quote, 'If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.' Karen Prince did take that time and delivered a course that is succinct and thorough. You'll be a master with Scrivener when you're finished. Out of the 50 to 60 courses I've purchased on multiple subjects here on Udemy, this is hands down the best! My favorite Scrivener feature without any doubt is the research folder of the Binder. As you can see with one of my WIPs, I use it for the outlining process, images, documents, PDFs and so forth. For several years now I’ve used Scrivener as the hub for my research, but I discovered I needed something else to store all the material I gathered.

“The biggest software advance for writers since the word processor.” - Best-selling novelist Michael Marshall Smith Typewriter. Scrivener combines all the writing tools you need to craft your first draft, from nascent notion to final full stop. Tailor-made for creating long manuscripts, Scrivener banishes page fright by allowing you to compose your text in any order, in sections as large or small as you like. Got a great idea but don’t know where it fits? Write when inspiration strikes and find its place later.

Grow your manuscript organically, idea by idea. Whether you plan or plunge, Scrivener works your way: meticulously outline every last detail first, or hammer out a complete draft and restructure later. Or do a bit of both.

All text sections in Scrivener are fully integrated with its outlining tools, so working with an overview of your manuscript is only ever a click away, and turning Chapter Four into Chapter One is as simple as drag and drop. Need to refer to research? In Scrivener, your background material is always at hand, and you can open it right alongside what you’re working on. Write a description based on a photograph. Transcribe an interview. Check for consistency with an earlier chapter. Once you’re ready to share your work with the world, compile everything into a single document for printing, create an e-book, or export to popular formats such as Word, PDF, Final Draft or plain text.

You can even share using different formatting, so that you can write in your favorite font and still keep your editor happy. Scrivener’s users include best-selling novelists, screenwriters, students, academics, lawyers, journalists and translators. It won’t tell you how to write - it just provides everything you need to start writing and keep writing.

By Familiarizing Yourself with the Program (For the Mac version of this tutorial,.) In the Scrivener walkthroughs and workshops I’ve done, one of the most common complaints from new users is that the interface is confusing and overwhelming. People find it difficult to get used to new software, so they give up before they even get started.

I’m going to walk you through the important pieces of Scrivener’s interface, their names, and what each one is used for right now. First, Install Scrivener In order to get the most out of this book, download and install Scrivener on your computer and follow along as we explore the program. Take advantage of the thirty-day free trial or buy the program for a one-time fee of $40.

Windows Versus Mac One more note before we get to the walkthrough: For the most part, the functionality of Scrivener for Mac and Scrivener for Windows is comparable, but there are a few notable differences. This is the Windows tutorial, and uses screenshots on the Windows 10 operating system. If you’re on a Mac, jump over to. Project Templates Now, let’s get started! The first screen you’ll see when you open Scrivener is Project Templates.

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From here, you can create a blank project, start a project based on an existing template, or open a recent project. For now, open a blank project to follow along. I’ll talk more about templates and teach you how to create your own when I introduce my later on. Blank Project This is what a blank new project in Scrivener looks like. You’ll see an identical screen if you are following along.

Menu The Menu is where you can find a full list of actions and functions, whether that’s adding links and images to documents, printing, compiling, formatting, etc. I like to spend some time with any new piece of software familiarizing myself with the Menus because they’re always different, and always very powerful. Don’t just look at the actions, but try to perform each one. If you can’t figure out what an action does, there’s a handy (but dense) Scrivener Manual that you can search. Find this by going to Help > Scrivener Manual in the Menu. Binder The Binder is the left-most area of the interface.

Its job is to contain all of the documents and folders in your project. While most new projects give you a basic Binder structure to start with, it is completely customizable.