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Posted on 6 March 2023
In Scrivener

This is the final post in this series, and now is the time to make any final tweaks to the decisions you've made so far in this book formatting journey. Your objective, up till now, has been to create the best product, one that your audience will enjoy reading. You put a lot of effort into choosing the right words, so you could 'tell your story' to best effect. The focus now,...

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Posted on 1 February 2023
In Scrivener

The previous five blogposts focused on the body of your book. DIY Book Formatting with Scrivener: An Introduction DIY Book Formatting with Scrivener: Page Settings DIY Book Formatting with Scrivener: Body Text 1 DIY Book Formatting with Scrivener: Body Text 2 DIY Book Formatting with Scrivener: Headings, Headers and Footers In this post, we look at what goes before (FrontMatter which Scrivener puts in the Front Matter folder) and after (EndMatter...

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Posted on 2 January 2023
In Scrivener

This is the fifth in this series on DIY Book formatting. The previous four DIY Book Formatting with Scrivener: An Introduction DIY Book Formatting with Scrivener: Page Settings DIY Book Formatting with Scrivener: Body Text 1 DIY Book Formatting with Scrivener: Body Text 2 covered most of the 20 items identified in the Introduction: all the ones in red below. The size of the page (width and height) The white space...

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Posted on 5 December 2022
In Scrivener

This is the second of two posts focusing on body text in this series on DIY Book formatting. In the previous blogpost, I looked at the basics of body text: point size, font style, leading and justification. In this follow-up post, I am considering four more aspects of body text formatting from our long list derived from studying a sample page of text. The paragraph style: indentation for the second paragraph,...

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Posted on 7 November 2022
In Scrivener

Pass me my glasses Body text design starts the ball rolling for many other design decisions. It's the majority of what your reader sees. In choosing the format for your body text, you need to consider these four settings. How big will the text be? This is called the point size. What font style do you plan to use? There are two main types: serif and sans serif. More on that...

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Posted on 10 October 2022
In Scrivener

Wrong shaped spoon? Adrian Frutiger says: If you remember the shape of your spoon at lunch, it has to be the wrong shape. He explains: The spoon and the letter are tools; one to take food from the bowl, the other to take information off the page...

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Posted on 12 September 2022
In Scrivener

Scrivener: the DIY publishing tool Formatting is a huge topic and I've written many blogs about it already. Formatting with Scrivener 3 Formatting with S3: All projects, this project, this document Formatting for printed output The Scrivener Mindset: Formatting via section layouts The Scrivener Mindset: Formatting via Compile The Scrivener Mindset: Formatting thru Section Layouts You might think, that's quite enough! No ...

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Posted on 15 August 2022
In Scrivener

Step 10 = Ask for feedback Once second-fix editing is complete, what happens next? Asking for feedback At various times in the writing/editing process, you might decide to seek feedback from others. In my RedPen Editing cycle, this is Step 10. Once second-fix editing is done, and you feel as happy as you can be with what you've produced, you might send your manuscript to a developmental editor for professional guidance. This will involve an...

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Posted on 20 June 2022
In Scrivener

Word choice reveals voice While I'm writing, at speed, words tumble onto my screen via my keyboard. They are rarely consciously chosen. Instead, my unconscious (or maybe subconscious) mind selects words from my vocabulary. Each of us has a unique vocabulary: a set of words that are familiar to us, and that we use with confidence. When we write, we include a subset of these words, and – with luck – the ones...

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