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My favourite things about Scrivener

1. Navigation. You can see all your chapters, scenes, character & setting planning at one glance and switch between them very easily - compared to scrolling up and down in one long word processing document. Every file can also be a folder, so you can have collapsible items underneath it.

2. Word count targets. The “Project Targets” are particularly useful for NaNoWriMo so you don’t have to keep looking back at the website to see how you’re doing for the day, but more so outside of it, when you want to keep yourself working to a target but don’t have Nano’s charts and daily word counts. It also gives you a nice ding when you hit your session target.

3. How many pages? I only recently discovered this, but it’s very nice to be able to see in Project Statistics approximately how big your manuscript would be in pages without worrying about formatting. 

4. Outlining. Scrivener has two methods of outlining - one is Corkboard, which is exactly what it sounds like, a digital corkboard with notes pinned on it that represent your chapters/scenes with their summaries. The screenshot above is called ‘outliner’ and lists collapsible chapters/scenes with various statistics you can select as shown in the tick menu. Generally I prefer Corkboard, but Outliner is useful if you just want to see everything in a clear order. 

5. Full screen. I get distracted very easily when writing, so the full-screen writing mode is wonderful for me to avoid that - but you can still choose certain windows from the normal Scrivener view to show up. I have my targets and my summary, so I can stick to my plan when I’m writing and also see what progress I’m making.

6. Notes. No screenshot, but it’s a simple post-it note style box to the side of every document (chapter, scene, character etc.) that allows you to add notes. This may sound very simple, but it’s far more useful than I’d expected. During NaNoWriMo when I’m not meant to be editing at all, but I know something needs fixing, I will jot down something in the side like ‘Take out the horse’ so that when I go through again to edit I know exactly the things to focus on immediately but which would have taken too much time before. It’s linked to the scene so I don’t just have a pile of notes in one document at the end and then have to work out where it needs fixing.

Overall

I downloaded Scrivener for the first time two years ago, and now I can’t imagine working without it. It’s so nice to have the planning and the writing all combined into one place where I can easily switch between the two. I haven’t yet got as far in a novel created in Scrivener to use the compile features so I can’t comment on those, but so far all my experiences of it have been good.

One thing to note is that if transferring project between a Windows and a Mac version of Scrivener, it’s generally best to zip the file first.

[Screenshots from my current novel Kindling Ashes using the Mac version of Scrivener - some features may not be available in Windows yet.]

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mlm trans guy and wlw trans girl fistbump, rb if you agree

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fuck i have a crush on a guy

he's a lifeguard at the pool where i have swimming lessons and i cant dive so he taught me how to dive and i was about to scream ahhhfhdhhrjejejejfjjrjeje

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whatever god there is is a cruel one because if he was real he wouldve given me a boyfriend already

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70% of my vocabulary is just synonyms for yearning

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hhh,, wanna,, kiss boy ;-;

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I cannot fucking b r e a t h e my face is red and i am g ay f u ck

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Im pretty sure its non-binary awareness week so i wanna say that nblm are perfectly valid and i love them very much and so does this cat

The cat does not lie

So go out there and support your fellow non-binary pals! nb people and nblm and nblw and nblnb people are so cool!!!

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I found this while looking for stock photos of headaches and i felt the need to share this

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swimming lessons absolutely sucked today my limbs are tired and i want to cry

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might fuck around and make an icon blog because i like making those thoughts

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Time to play the 'do you already know im gay but just dont say anything about it or do you not know im gay even after me telling you im gay' game

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*steps onto podium*

BOYS

thank you

*steps off podium*

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i was in the pool with my grandma and i was just floating around thinking about being gay when a bird flew over us and i almost said "look a homosexual"

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friendly reminder to all trans men that you are looking very handsome today

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i have five friends and i want to share them

-long hair: my irl friend i love him very much he is very supportive and we're going to have matching costumes this halloween

-saxophone: my other irl friend i love her very much she got me into the pjo + bnha fandom and shes a mom friend

-funky cat: i met him on pinterest after someone was being transphobic and he gave me a picture of a cat saying 'you look very good today' and i am eternally in debt to him

-cryptid: i rarely see another fanfic writer who is a boy!!! he's rlly nice and really chaotic super cool

-angel: such a sweet girl we have a lot of things in common and we work really well together because i dump my emotional baggage on everyone and she gives advice to everyone so yay!!!!

i love my friends so much

names have been edited for privacy if you couldnt tell because my friend is not actually saxophone

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i was looking through the lgbt headcanons tag and i forgot i was so i started to think 'hey lgbt headcanons sure are popular today but where are the memes' and then i remembered