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Posted on 24 August 2020
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Inspector skills on parade! The Inspector panel have five icons. The most recent two blogposts in this Inspector Skills series have covered items 1, 2 and 3. 1 Notes and  3 Metadata in the Inspector Skills: Metadata post 2 bookmarks in the Inspector Skills: Bookmarks post This post looks at the last two icons. 4 Snapshots 5 Comments and Footnotes Snapshots Snapshots is another one of those tools you can live without until you discover...

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Posted on 17 August 2020
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Metadata is data about data Metadata offers a way of documenting your manuscript: powerful for editing - I refer to metadata as the Editor's Friend in this blogpost - but it's also useful when you are writing that first draft - or during the planning stages. Note that I write in scenes - part of the story that happen at a place, at a time and involves a subset of the cast...

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Posted on 10 August 2020
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Inspector skills to the fore In this 'crash course' of Scrivener features, we have already considered Binder skills, and Editing pane options. Now it's the turn of the Inspector. The next four blog posts focus on these four topics. Bookmarks Metadata Snapshots Comments and footnotes Today, it's bookmarks. What is a bookmark? Within a browser environment, the term bookmark is almost interchangeable with ‘favourite’ – you bookmark a webpage because you want to return to...

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Posted on 3 August 2020
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The Outliner tracks progress The three Editing pane options are: your Scrivenings, your Corkboard or your Outliner view. In a previous post, I looked at Scrivenings. Last time, I focused on the Corkboard. Today, it’s all about the Outliner view. Outliner view is not for outlining? You can use the Outliner to outline your novel, if you wish. I prefer to use the Corkboard as it gives me the card image which matches...

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Posted on 27 July 2020
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It’s all about the Corkboard! The three Editing pane options are: your Scrivenings, your Corkboard or your Outliner view. In the previous post, I looked at Scrivenings. Next time, I’ll focus on the Outliner view. Today, it’s all about the Corkboard. Why use the Corkboard? The Corkboard is not compulsory! To write your text, you need Scrivenings, but you need not venture further into the Editing pane options if you'd rather not. However, the Corkboard,...

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Posted on 20 July 2020
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Scrivenings = writing It's interesting that Literature & Latte chose this term; Scrivenings is a now obsolete English term for writing. To me, it indicates a return to the old style of publishing: Write the words and create galley proofs Proofread Incorporate figures and tables, and paginate Proofread the page layout (ie check the formatting) Publish So, rather than focus on the product - the paged output - the writer focuses on the...

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Posted on 13 July 2020
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Seek and ye shall find! Scrivener provides three types of search: The Project search allows you to find instances of particular words or phrases within the whole project, subject to choices you make about where you want the search to happen, and how fussy you are about what is to be found. There is also a Project Replace tool – which searches and replaces. The Document search is confined to the selected document(s)...

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Posted on 6 July 2020
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Best foot forward Starting a new Scrivener project, the first choice is which template to use? One of Scriveners One of your own - yes, you can set up your own template, based on one of Scrivener's templates One you downloaded from the Internet - yes, you can start with a template provided by another source, such as the KM Weiland template for a 3-act structured novel Whatever you decide will determine...

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Posted on 29 June 2020
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Jack of all trades? The saying continues: master of none. But Scrivener not only provides scopes for 'all trades', its sophistication also allows the user to 'master' the process. There are two parts to this series of posts. Basic tools common to all applications of Scrivener Specific strategies for writer types and projects Basic Scrivener tools If you are new to Scrivener, I highly recommend you take my (free) 14-day Scrivener course. I've been using...

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Posted on 22 June 2020
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Feedback - where the fun starts! Processing feedback. What's the best strategy? How can you avoid editing overwhelm? When your editor returns your Scrivener project file, where should you start? There may be feedback all over the place. In a covering letter As comments in the Inspector In the text itself, as Annotations or colouring (Revision mode, or highlighted words) A strategy for processing feedback without editing overwhelm It's up to you what you...

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