Brilliant! This is the first tutorial of Scrivener that is as clear and orderly as I have ever seen. Thank you very much and I wish you lots of success in your career! Greetings from Switzerland.
I'm so glad I found your channel. Thanks so much for sharing this really helpful info and your writing process. I love it. I've been considering Scrivener, and now I know that I DEFINITELY need it to organize my many many MANY notes. LOL. I'll be following your channel from now on. Huge thumbs up!
Hi Jessica- I am loving you're videos about how you think about and use Scrivener. I DO HAVE A QUESTION - I'd really love to know how you use keywords. I see how you use labels, and I get that they are for the big threads of the story. But what about keywords? Do you have a strategy for how you approach using them? I don't know if you're still doing these videos or if you'll see this, but that's my question. Thanks!
So nice ! I love setting up Scrivener for a new project, this is always exciting ! I used to put everything in my template, even all the personalities types for characters, all the writing methods handsheets but I found that it was maybe weighting down the template for nothing. Meanwhile I discovered Notion so I decided to put all those stuff away on Notion so I can concentrate on the writing only in scrivener. I would have a question though : How do you set up scrivener for the next phase after the 1st draft is over, all the corrections and editing ? Do you duplicate your 1st draft to back it up and work on a duplicated version for the 2nd draft ? How do you handle all the corrections, beta reading changes and editing ? This makes me curious :) Thank you for you channel !
Sorry I'm so late to replying to this - so in short, when I do my first round of edits, they happen within Scrivener. I make notes in the notes sidebar as I do my read throughs, then go through and make all my edits just directly on the manuscript. I don't worry about saving old editions - but if I'm scared about changes I'll duplicate the scene/chapters and put them in my "Scraps" folder. The nice thing about my hefty plotwork is that I'm pretty confident with structure and arcs going into drafting, so when I do edits there's not too much I have to work on with huge changes that I'd be scared to implement. Once the manuscript is fully through my runs and betas, it goes into MS Word for my professional editors and never comes back to Scrivener.
How do you know when a plot would count as an action plot rather than a character plot? My MC is investigating a murder of her friend which is her plot but the murder ties into a global conflict - so would the conflict be the action plot?
Ooooh such a good question! A lot of times plot points will overlap and one event can count towards multiple main points within a story. I go into this in detail in my video on plot weaving - how the threads weave together. You can check it out here, but let me know if you have any other questions about my process. th-cam.com/video/EW6dEP9F2ps/w-d-xo.html
Brilliant! This is the first tutorial of Scrivener that is as clear and orderly as I have ever seen. Thank you very much and I wish you lots of success in your career! Greetings from Switzerland.
By far the best video I've seen on Scrivener! THANK YOU!
I'm so glad you enjoyed!
Love your channel! It's really helped me organize my writing process so far. Thanks so much!
I'm so happy you've found my vids helpful! Thanks for stopping by and leaving a lovely comment!
Thanks you really explained this so well, can’t wait to try it out.
I'm so glad I found your channel. Thanks so much for sharing this really helpful info and your writing process. I love it. I've been considering Scrivener, and now I know that I DEFINITELY need it to organize my many many MANY notes. LOL. I'll be following your channel from now on. Huge thumbs up!
Thank you for the kind feedback! I'm so excited you found the video helpful. 💕
THIS WAS THE BEST!
Hi Jessica- I am loving you're videos about how you think about and use Scrivener. I DO HAVE A QUESTION - I'd really love to know how you use keywords. I see how you use labels, and I get that they are for the big threads of the story. But what about keywords? Do you have a strategy for how you approach using them? I don't know if you're still doing these videos or if you'll see this, but that's my question. Thanks!
Loved the video. Would love to hear more about the plotting. And especially how the weaving works.
Weaving -- I need it! So smart. please follow up video on that :)
Thanks so much! Your video is great 🎉🙌
You did great setting up Scrivener! I finally setup mine up too
Thanks for the feedback! Scrivener really is a great tool to keep your whole story and world organized!
right on thank you God bless you :)
Would you be willing to do a walk through of how you use InDesign & Vellum?
I've been debating doing just that - must be a sign for me to get on that one! Thanks for watching :-)
So nice ! I love setting up Scrivener for a new project, this is always exciting !
I used to put everything in my template, even all the personalities types for characters, all the writing methods handsheets but I found that it was maybe weighting down the template for nothing. Meanwhile I discovered Notion so I decided to put all those stuff away on Notion so I can concentrate on the writing only in scrivener.
I would have a question though : How do you set up scrivener for the next phase after the 1st draft is over, all the corrections and editing ? Do you duplicate your 1st draft to back it up and work on a duplicated version for the 2nd draft ? How do you handle all the corrections, beta reading changes and editing ?
This makes me curious :)
Thank you for you channel !
Sorry I'm so late to replying to this - so in short, when I do my first round of edits, they happen within Scrivener. I make notes in the notes sidebar as I do my read throughs, then go through and make all my edits just directly on the manuscript. I don't worry about saving old editions - but if I'm scared about changes I'll duplicate the scene/chapters and put them in my "Scraps" folder.
The nice thing about my hefty plotwork is that I'm pretty confident with structure and arcs going into drafting, so when I do edits there's not too much I have to work on with huge changes that I'd be scared to implement.
Once the manuscript is fully through my runs and betas, it goes into MS Word for my professional editors and never comes back to Scrivener.
I purchased Scrivener on 12/23/22. I’ve tried repeatedly to open the download. Each time it opens it’s unreadable.
How do you know when a plot would count as an action plot rather than a character plot? My MC is investigating a murder of her friend which is her plot but the murder ties into a global conflict - so would the conflict be the action plot?
Ooooh such a good question! A lot of times plot points will overlap and one event can count towards multiple main points within a story. I go into this in detail in my video on plot weaving - how the threads weave together. You can check it out here, but let me know if you have any other questions about my process. th-cam.com/video/EW6dEP9F2ps/w-d-xo.html
Amazing helpful content! Thank you!
I love to connect when you do some Write with Me
thank I like your videos, can you share with me background music title, I loved, thank you so much, take care!...
Oh gosh, this was back when I chose something royalty free. This one is called Lofi It by FASSounds
Does anyone one out there does Scrivener using a PC - all these people doing videos are using Apple computers.
I found this first, before my feed got flooded
th-cam.com/video/kW_tIG0UzSo/w-d-xo.html
Yes, I have Scrivener on my PC. I'm also looking for a Windows tutorial.