Scrivener: A Quick Review of How it Works and Some of its Coolest features.

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As software updates all the time, some of the buttons on the Scrivener user interface have moved. For an updated version of the video go to: Scrivener | A Quick Review of How it Works 2019
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This is Karen from kazzprince.com In this video, I show you how the main features of Scrivener work by giving you some real examples of my own writing process and giving you some Scrivener tips along the way. Then you will see how Scrivener can save you time and money and revolutionize the way you create and publish your books.

For those of you who are writing a book, the basic concept behind Scrivener is quite simple. Instead of having your manuscript, notes, and research scattered all over your hard drive, you get to organize them into one project where they are easily accessible at the click of a button.

Your manuscript itself can be split into large sections like chapters or chunked down into smaller sections like scenes — which can then be re-shuffled as your project takes shape and can be viewed in multiple ways depending on how you like to work and what task you are performing at the time.

And what’s also really cool about Scrivener is that when you are done writing, you don’t need to go looking for someone to format your book for you and then wait for them to do it; you can compile for export quickly and easily to multiple platforms from right within the software.

Scrivener allows you to compile for export without altering the original manuscript, so you can literally publish an eBook and immediately afterward switch to a paperback or a PDF.

I should just mention here that this is not the kind of software that writes the book for you, or tells you how to write a book.

It is word-processing software with added functionality specially designed to optimize the work process of:
Authors,
Screenwriters,
Short-Story Writers,
Screenwriters,
Playwrights,
Comedians,
Lawyers,
Journalists,
Lecturers,
Academics and Students,
Biographers and Memoirists,
Business and Technical Writers,
Comics and Graphic Novel Writers,
Translators and many other people who work on long writing projects.

Here are just some of the great Scrivener features covered in this video.

How you can organize your manuscript, notes and research into one project in Scrivener where they are easily accessible at the click of a button.

Where to store your research, character sketches and place sketches, and where to find templates for them.

How to import your manuscript from your current writing software seamlessly, without copy-pasting, and already broken up into chapters.

How you can split your long-form writing project into manageable chunks in Scrivener and re-arrange them to suit your plot.

Highlighting the different ways you can view your documents in Scrivener — One at a time or several at once as ordinary text in View Document Mode; as index cards on a corkboard in Cork Board Mode; as a list-style view in the Outliner Mode where you can see multiple levels of your document at the same time and as a page floating on a background image or a black screen with no distractions at all in Compose Mode. (Full-Screen Mode on the Windows platform)

How easy it is to split the Scrivener screen and view 2 documents at once in any of the view modes.

Where to view your word counts and character counts and how to set word count targets.

How to track your word count targets and other meta-data such as points of view or which draft your document is currently in.

How and why you should be using the amazing Collections function when you are doing your re-writes or editing.

How you can format your own books and export them quickly and easily to multiple platforms as eBooks PDFs or paperbacks.

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If you learn best from books; try these:
Scrivener for Windows eBook tutorial http://bit.ly/ScrivWin
Scrivener for Mac eBook Tutorial http://bit.ly/ScrivMac

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