7/11/17 Scrivener Content-Generaon Tool A scrivener (or scribe) was a person who could read and write or wrote le?ers to court and legal documents. Scriveners were people who made their living by wri2ng or copying wri?en material Scrivener • Management system for documents, notes and metadata. • Helps organize notes, concepts, research and whole documents for easy access and reference • Op2mized for long documents, i.e., books, research projects, novels, screen plays, etc. • Scrivener is a powerful content-generaon tool for writers • A word processor and project management tool • Puts all your research and informaon in one place for easy access • Allows you to concentrate on composing and structuring long and difficult documents. 1 7/11/17 Templates • Includes templates for – Novels and short stories – Essays & research theses – Scripts – Poetry – Other Research • Rich text, • Images • PDF • Audio • Video • Web pages • Etc. Research • Character Profiles • World Building • Maps • Plong ideas • Outlines • Research notes • Website clips • Screen shots • Etc. 2 7/11/17 Collect Research • Replaces 3x5 cards • Binders of informaon • Corkboard • Order fragmented ideas • Shuffle index cards in search of that elusive structure Marcel Proust's Wri2ng Setup with cork board lined walls stuck with dras of his final novel Corkboard • Every document is aached to a virtual index card. • Use the corkboard to shuffle these index cards around - which is instantly reflected in the structure of your dra. Outline • View the synopses and meta-data of the documents in your project. • Restructure your work easily • Get an overview of the project so far and what s2ll needs to be done • Check how many scenes have a certain character as the point-of-view character • Read and edit an overview of a scene, a chapter or of the whole dra 3 7/11/17 Meta-Data • Title of unit • Synopsis or image • Point of View • Focus • Type • Locaon • Etc. Dra View • As much (or as li?le) formang as you want • Independent of output format • At any level – Scene – Individual document – Chapter – Part – Whole manuscript Full Screen View • Blank out the rest of the world while you write • Distrac2on-Free mode • Formaed the way you want – Choose your background – Choose the width of “paper” – Choose text and “paper” color 4 7/11/17 Split View • View two part of the same document • Two different documents, including research • Two different views • Horizontal or ver2cal Compile for Export/Print • Export your document (or porons) – Standard manuscript format – Text: txt, ri, doc, docx, odt, – PDF – HTML – Ebook formats: epub, mobi, docx for iBook – Final Dra – Markdown Scrivener for iOS • Access Scrivener database from iPhone or iPad • Syncs through Dropbox • Missing some advanced features but robust app 5 7/11/17 More Informaon • h?ps://www.literatureandlae.com/ scrivener.php Free 30 day trial available. • h?p://twi?er.com/scrivenerapp • h?p://www.facebook.com/pages/Scrivener/ 126134826351 • Eastgate Summer Fest 2017: hp://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/ Specials/SummerFest.html (Scrivener 25% off) 6 .