Scrivener for essayists, short story writers and poets.I wrote a series of blog posts explaining which templates might best suit various types of writers. However, to help users to cut through the complexity, Literature & Latte provides templates so that the Binder (at least!) resembles what you need. Scrivener is such a powerful tool with a multitude of options that, at first sight, it might look too complicated to contemplate. Scrivener is too hard to learn? The learning curve is too steep? So, the first element of the Scrivener mindset is to pull everything together, not scatter the material to the four winds. With Scrivener, everything related to your novel (or your play, your collection of short stories or poems) can be within the one project, and all this material is presented via three panes. There are masses of notes, character sketches, and other material which the writer needs to hand, to complete the project. One thing writers have in common is that their writing is not just the story, or the poem, or the play. Or, you could just use Scrivener? Why use Scrivener at all?! You could output to Vellum or some other software for the finer points of formatting.Aeon Timeline integrates – or you could use a custom metadata field for the date/time.There are plotting tools like Plottr which integrate with Scrivener – or you could Scapple!. It is possible to use Scrivener alongside other software. If this is your plan, you need even more sophisticated (and more expensive) software, like InDesign. Scrivener is not designed for publications which rely on complicated layouts, eg wrapping images around text.Scrivener does not offer a truly WYSIWYG environment.Plus, the process focuses on getting the words on the page (into the Editing pane) and only then thinking about how it’s going to be formatted for publication.įinally, in adopting a Scrivener mindset, writers need to understand what Scrivener is not. So, there are publishing techniques and terminology to embrace. Writers need also to accept that Literature & Latte designed this software with the end goal being publication. Yes, the learning curve might be steep – there is so much to learn – but support is available from Literature & Latte but others sources too, like this blog.
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