Scrivener & Writing “How-to” Articles and Posts
Fixing Scrivener’s Backward Quotation Marks
Funky Quotation Marks are No Bueno Imagine slaving and toiling for hours, days, or even weeks in a manuscript before you realize that your writing is fraught with backward quotation marks! What would you do? Surely there has to be a better way, rather than going one...
Scrivener Custom Meta-data
Meta-data in General Meta-what, you ask? Meta-data is data about, well, data. So, it's information about the attributes associated with a data point. While this may sound very technical, and in one sense it is, it really isn't. The most common form of meta-data is...
Outlining with Scrivener
The Scrivener Outliner - Do I Have to? Outlinining with Scrivener is easier than you probably think. Whether you're an Outliner or a Pantser, Planner or a Gardner—however you choose to word it—most would agree that there's a place for some level of organization in...
Scrivener Reads My Writing on a Mac
Read Your Writing Outloud A well-known technique amongst writers in the revision phase is to read your work aloud. You can catch all kinds of grammar mistakes, but perhaps more importantly, you can hear how your writing sounds. Does it sound natural? Does the dialogue...
How to Use Scrivener’s Corkboard
Organizing Your Writing with The Corkboard If you're using Scrivener, there is a good chance that one of the features that attracted you to the software is the corkboard. The corkboard is just what it sounds like, only in Scrivener, and not on an actual corkboard. In...
Scrivener Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows
f you use Scrivener, it's likely that you're interested in maximizing your writing productivity. Scrivener is a powerful writing tool that gives you flexibility and control over almost every aspect of your writing. One of the best ways to speed up...
Scrivener Keyboard Shortcuts for Mac
f you use Scrivener, it's likely that you're interested in maximizing your writing productivity. Scrivener is a powerful writing tool that gives you flexibility and control over almost every aspect of your writing. One of the best ways to speed up...
Create Custom Format Presets in Scrivener
Custom Format Presets in Scrivener s a creative writer, the last thing you want to spend time doing is a lot of formatting, Good news! Scrivener includes a handy feature that lets you create custom format presets that you might use frequently. Once...
How To Use Scrivener’s Binder
How to Use Scrivener's Binder he Scrivener Binder is a powerful scrivener feature designed to give the writer ultimate flexibility and control over the organization of his writing. If you've ever been frustrated with Microsoft Word because, for...
Scrivener Collections
crivener gives you various ways to organize your documents into one project, and some special tools to improve your ability to get around your writing. One way Scrivener gives you additional organizing flexibility is with the collections feature....