"These might be fantastic... have to admit, I've never looked at them." LOL. I love your total honesty. Very refreshing, ESPECIALLY among the AuthorTube community. P.S Thank you for this brilliant video.
I know this is an older video (it came up on my recommended) but I wanted to say this is the BEST Scrivener for beginners video I have ever watched! I followed your instructions and was able to set up the basics for a novel idea I have. You have an excited new subscriber!
OMG, I've been staring at this Scrivener for 3 days, trying to figure out why I bought it. Now I know why. Great tutorial! I was getting loopy, and I was questioning my judgment. 🤪
OMG IM SHOCKED THAT IT EXISTS OMG, I WANNA CRY, HOW I DIDNT KNOW THAT!!!! YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW MUCH I SUFFER WITH THE MANY WORD DOC SHEETS WITH CHARACTERS, OUTLINE OF CHARACTERS, OUTLINE OF BOOKS, NOTES, SCENE IDEIAS, SUBTEXT OF SCENES, INSPIRATIONS AAAA IM HAVING A CRISIS RIGHT NOW
Thank you. I've written six books and always wanted to take the time to get to understand Scrivener. This helped me a lot. I will start on #7 using Scrivener finally.
Thanks for keeping it simple. This has help me out a lot. Once I master this one can learn other feature. Focusing on the basic is needed the most. THANK YOU!
THANK YOU for this! Just getting started with authorship and I haven't had luck finding any good Scrivener tutorials for those who use PC instead of Mac computers. Super helpful!
This was helpful. I first followed someone else's tutorial video and nothing worked as she said. I followed your instructions and I was able to import my novel in progress. Thanks!
I have participated in Camp NaNoWriMo, and I'm considering buying Scrivner soon. Thank you so much for this tutorial. I am thankful for your demo (finally PC tutorial!). 😁 As always, I've enjoyed your video. ❤
This video is an excellent introduction to Scrivener. Thank you. I was able to set up and import my novel to the software with ease and if I needed to know anything else beyond that you surely explained it in this video. Thank you again.
Terrific! Thank you. I write clean Christian thrillers. I'm like you: I just jumped in and didn't spend too much time on some of the options. Sort of wish I had now. Every chapter was a scene, so I've had some work to do. I'm almost ready to send the first novel I've written using Scrivener to my agent-and ach! Getting this thing into Word isn't as simple as I expected. So thanks. You are a life-saver.
I do all my world/character building and information on Milanote, and just use Scrivener for my actual writing, but I do have some base information like ages and other things I may need at short notice below my chapters. I'm very much a plotter, and Milanote works perfectly for me for that as it's very visually focused, and easy to organize exactly how you like.
Thank you for this video; it's clarified a good reason for not using Scrivener: the only way I can be motivated is by more or less seeing the NOVEL itself almost WYSIWYG in front of my face: a good modern word-processor will accomplish that for me. Strange to say, I do _not_ see, from what I've seen, Scrivener magically doing things the way I want to, rather I see the tools of Word and the like as being flexible enough to adapt to the way I want to do it.
If you’re new to Scrivener, it can seem intimidating. I’m lucky, in that I’ve been using it since the first version, so I’ve gotten to learn it slowly with each upgrade. There is a LOT in this software, but you don’t need to use all of it. I’ve used a more features with each subsequent version. For instance, in my current novel I’ve used the outlining feature for the first time and it is a dream! If you aren’t computer savvy, I would recommend you use it for a short story or something simple first so you can get used to it. What I will tell you is this, it’s worth the effort to learn it! It is the best writing tool there is.
@@Rajgitaa In Scrivener you have the Notecard view, the "writing window", and the outlining view. The outlining view takes what you wrote in the Notecards and gives you a vertical view of your entire book. It's almost like the list of your emails in Outlook. You can have the first column be the text from your note card, the second column be the word count for that scene, the third column be the word count target for that scene, etc (I have scene data/time as one of the columns). So it helps you essentially plan the book. I used to do this in Excel, till I discovered I could do it right in Scrivener. If you want to see a screenshot, I can share one.
I used Scrivener for my first draft, then when I started editing I got completely confused. So I need to start over. Hope your video will help me to keep it more simple.
Hi there I'm using Shrivener for the first time, so very much value your tutorial, my only suggestion to you is perhaps to go maybe a little bit slower in some parts, like creating a new file, would be really helpful. I am having to rewind this video time and again so that I can see what you're doing. It's a good video and I was able to follow what you were doing in unison with my Shrivener, I'm going to watch the rest of your videos. Thank you so much for your help, a great start for me! I'm from New Zealand.
When you said ships, I thought you meant pairings but then I remember brightly burning is, in fact set in serval actual ships. Lol Thank you for this by the way. I'm excited to use this app
This was extremely helpful - especially the part about importing from a Word doc. I am curious why there is "scenes" within each chapter if they're not really used... but maybe I'm just missing something and have a lot more to learn about Scrivener! Thanks so much for this! :)
The thing I like about Scrivener is that it lets me easily play around with story and structure, add notes for later. Pain in the ass to format though, but I'll just copy it to Microsoft Word when the writing is finished and do it that way.
Thank you for doing a PC version!! Everyone else just about, does a Mac version and the software is different. At this point (11 Nov 2020), Scrivener # for PC is at least a month off, if not more. There's no threaded cork board, etc. Annoying! ;)
I've been watching and re-watching this tutorial, thank you so much for being so good at explaining. One question, can I just ignore the Scenes and just write inside the chapter?
I've never, ever met anyone with my middle name. I've never seen it anywhere except I think in the Olympics maybe. So, imagine my surprise when you wrote "Lavinia" in the names section of your tutorial! Just curious...what made that name pop into your brain so fast? Thanks for the info. Another writer here but writing a novel this time! Happy Writing!
I really loved this video and you're great at showing everything but if you could please slow down for those of us who have never used Scrivener before it would be so much more helpful. You started selecting things faster and faster and it was hard to follow your mouse pointer that I had to slow it down so many times. Otherwise, great vid, thank you so much.
I'm very surprised that you don't have a template premade for your novels. It's so simple to make a template, then you don't have to redo everything every time
Hi Alexa, I just went through your video and tried it. Everything worked well. But my questions is that the first paragraph at the beginning of a chapter shouldn't be indented, how do you set that up in the compile settings? Thank you.
There is something I can't find, and that's where to place the dedication, epigraph, and other front matter materials. This is for compiling to Word. Or are those items I should later plan to insert in Word and not put in Scrivener? Thanks! Again, great video.
Hi Alexa, I work with Scrivener on Windows 11. I like to enlarge the size of letters in the left collum: the Binder part. Can you help me? Thanks, on forehand.
Excellent tutorials - thank you! My challenge today is finding a way to reformat multiple scenes within my Draft simultaneously. I have 50 scenes all in 14 point font that I need to decrease to 12 point. Similarly, I need to reformat the margins. Obviously, I do not wish to do this one scene at a time. Can you help me with that?
How do i get my cork board to look like yours in the demo video. Also, are the NON-FICTIONS format the same as the fiction. You video speaks on the setup for fiction and I need non-fiction…. Thinks seem to be different
Alexa, I stupidly wrote my novel in 4 separate Word files. Is there a way to import them into my Scrivener program as one novel project?? Super thanks !!
Ok I might have been living under a rock because I just found out about this lol I'm currently writing a sci-fi fantasy fiction novel do you do new book releases too?
This look like it works for a chapter base novel. I use a date/place marker. [IE: October 4, 2178 -- Bhutan] so this program don't look like anything i can use. This program also presume you know every Character your using, I dont know all characters until I need that Character. So what am I missing?
just got scrivener but can't get the session target to 0. It comes up as -1574. Any idea why? And is scene the main body of the chapter or do you have to create a chapter under manuscript? Confused.
If you are beginning your book with a prologue, would it be wise to name that folder prologue? I'm just getting started on scrivener to begin to writing my new book, and I'm still getting used to the ins and outs of it. I am also coming to the end of doing the interactive tutorial, and it is overloaded with information, but it's helpful to come back to when you get stuck with the any of the functions for S. This tutorial was super helpful though! Thank you! :)
YOu have a pretty smile, first of all. Second, my far left-hand column does not have "novel format." It has manuscript, under which is a card for a chapter and one for a scene. I added a scene to my first chapter (so now I have Chap. 1, with 2 scenes.) I created "Chapter 2." I've spent HOURS trying to figure out how to add a scene. No clue. Every time I add anything, it comes up as untitled, but not indented as a scene under chapter 2. I'm ready to throw in the towel. Can you help me out? Thanks.
Hi, I really loved this video since I'm a Scrivener newbie and I simply can't wrap my head around why everyone loves it so much. Here's a question and maybe I'm just an idiot, but why do I need the chapter folders if I can also just have them as a document? I hope you can help me and if not, I will continue writing with google docs, though I would love to use Scrivener, since I already have it on my laptop. Thank you!
You're not an idiot! I'm an aspiring author too. I didn't have the first clue about Scrivener before watching this video *and* I don't know how to use google docs. Hope that makes you feel a bit better :P
Sloooooooooow dooooooooown, pleeeeaaaaaasse. I hate Times New Roman, even to compose in. Can I compose in whatever font pleases me and convert the complete work back to TNR before compiling it?
you dont actually have to do the leg work if you initially just duplicate the original scene page and trash the chapter file. my version of scrivener has a 'New Text' option under that green plus sign so you could just do that or hit ctrl+N. i see that you are using a mac though so idk if the controls are the same as mine.
I'm using a Windows 10 PC and can't find out how to do the simplest things with Scrivener. I LOVE the software, but the manual is useless, and so many of these official Literature and Latte videos use a MAC, and they keep showing me tabs and features (such as "Preferences") that I can't even find on my version (which is the most recent.) So frustrating. Right now I'm trying to figure out how to create a simple "default format" for each document, but nothing works. I wrote the first draft on MS Word 2016, and when I import docs (scenes/chapters) the formatting is inconsistent. I'm talking absolute basics: margins, indenting, etc. Arrggh. Should be so simple....
7:03 You read my mind about the default courier new default setting. I hate reading or writing in courier new; the mere sight of it makes me want to puke.
"These might be fantastic... have to admit, I've never looked at them." LOL. I love your total honesty. Very refreshing, ESPECIALLY among the AuthorTube community.
P.S Thank you for this brilliant video.
Even years later, this video is so great. Thank you! I see myself rewatching this time and time again.
21:23 Moving an existing word doc into scrivener, thank god for this !
This was EXTREMELY helpful! Especially the part about how to import an existing manuscript into Scrivener. Thank you for sharing your insights.
Excellent! Finally someone who gave me what I needed. I won't have to give up on Scrivener after all.
Thank you!
I know this is an older video (it came up on my recommended) but I wanted to say this is the BEST Scrivener for beginners video I have ever watched! I followed your instructions and was able to set up the basics for a novel idea I have. You have an excited new subscriber!
OMG, I've been staring at this Scrivener for 3 days, trying to figure out why I bought it. Now I know why. Great tutorial! I was getting loopy, and I was questioning my judgment. 🤪
Thanks so much for this series! I’ve kept hearing of Scrivener before, but you’ve got me over my trepidation about trying it out!
OMG IM SHOCKED THAT IT EXISTS OMG, I WANNA CRY, HOW I DIDNT KNOW THAT!!!! YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW MUCH I SUFFER WITH THE MANY WORD DOC SHEETS WITH CHARACTERS, OUTLINE OF CHARACTERS, OUTLINE OF BOOKS, NOTES, SCENE IDEIAS, SUBTEXT OF SCENES, INSPIRATIONS AAAA IM HAVING A CRISIS RIGHT NOW
Thank you. I've written six books and always wanted to take the time to get to understand Scrivener. This helped me a lot.
I will start on #7 using Scrivener finally.
7:22 Change font & Double Spacing
Thanks for keeping it simple. This has help me out a lot. Once I master this one can learn other feature. Focusing on the basic is needed the most. THANK YOU!
THANK YOU for this! Just getting started with authorship and I haven't had luck finding any good Scrivener tutorials for those who use PC instead of Mac computers. Super helpful!
I just invested in the program today your video is the first to pop up! ❤❤
This was helpful. I first followed someone else's tutorial video and nothing worked as she said. I followed your instructions and I was able to import my novel in progress. Thanks!
Thank you this is one of the best explanations I have personally found. Its a hard software for beginners like me!
I have participated in Camp NaNoWriMo, and I'm considering buying Scrivner soon. Thank you so much for this tutorial. I am thankful for your demo (finally PC tutorial!). 😁
As always, I've enjoyed your video. ❤
I just did the same! Looking forward to getting Scrivener set up.
This video is an excellent introduction to Scrivener. Thank you. I was able to set up and import my novel to the software with ease and if I needed to know anything else beyond that you surely explained it in this video. Thank you again.
Thank you! This is the most helpful video I’ve seen regarding Scrivener yet! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
Thank you so much for taking the time to do this. Very helpful indeed.
love this, but also love spotting The Disappearances behind you and Elly Blake's books...yay for those!!
Just got scrivner today and this video was so helpful. Thank you.
I'll be a writer because of you, do you know why, Your gestures and mimics are very beautiful, you seem very cheerful to me,you are my inspiration
oh wow this video has helped me SO MUCH to understand how to use Scrivener! Thank you so much!
Terrific! Thank you. I write clean Christian thrillers. I'm like you: I just jumped in and didn't spend too much time on some of the options. Sort of wish I had now. Every chapter was a scene, so I've had some work to do. I'm almost ready to send the first novel I've written using Scrivener to my agent-and ach! Getting this thing into Word isn't as simple as I expected. So thanks. You are a life-saver.
I do all my world/character building and information on Milanote, and just use Scrivener for my actual writing, but I do have some base information like ages and other things I may need at short notice below my chapters. I'm very much a plotter, and Milanote works perfectly for me for that as it's very visually focused, and easy to organize exactly how you like.
Great demo, for those who can't keep up that is what the pause and replay buttons are for. Thank you for sharing...
Intelligent, knowledgeable, and talented. Thank you for your help.
it is funny at the beginning of the video i was so chill just realizing how cool is your make up at every video, but now im trembling and panting
Thank you for this video; it's clarified a good reason for not using Scrivener: the only way I can be motivated is by more or less seeing the NOVEL itself almost WYSIWYG in front of my face: a good modern word-processor will accomplish that for me.
Strange to say, I do _not_ see, from what I've seen, Scrivener magically doing things the way I want to, rather I see the tools of Word and the like as being flexible enough to adapt to the way I want to do it.
If you’re new to Scrivener, it can seem intimidating. I’m lucky, in that I’ve been using it since the first version, so I’ve gotten to learn it slowly with each upgrade. There is a LOT in this software, but you don’t need to use all of it. I’ve used a more features with each subsequent version. For instance, in my current novel I’ve used the outlining feature for the first time and it is a dream!
If you aren’t computer savvy, I would recommend you use it for a short story or something simple first so you can get used to it. What I will tell you is this, it’s worth the effort to learn it! It is the best writing tool there is.
What is the outlining feature you're referring to?
@@Rajgitaa In Scrivener you have the Notecard view, the "writing window", and the outlining view. The outlining view takes what you wrote in the Notecards and gives you a vertical view of your entire book. It's almost like the list of your emails in Outlook. You can have the first column be the text from your note card, the second column be the word count for that scene, the third column be the word count target for that scene, etc (I have scene data/time as one of the columns).
So it helps you essentially plan the book. I used to do this in Excel, till I discovered I could do it right in Scrivener. If you want to see a screenshot, I can share one.
wov great looking for the exact one .fantastic
I used Scrivener for my first draft, then when I started editing I got completely confused. So I need to start over. Hope your video will help me to keep it more simple.
Hi there I'm using Shrivener for the first time, so very much value your tutorial, my only suggestion to you is perhaps to go maybe a little bit slower in some parts, like creating a new file, would be really helpful. I am having to rewind this video time and again so that I can see what you're doing. It's a good video and I was able to follow what you were doing in unison with my Shrivener, I'm going to watch the rest of your videos. Thank you so much for your help, a great start for me! I'm from New Zealand.
When you said ships, I thought you meant pairings but then I remember brightly burning is, in fact set in serval actual ships. Lol
Thank you for this by the way. I'm excited to use this app
This is excellent tutorial. Thank u
I had to put on my headset. Every time you say your name Alexa my Alexa lights up. LOL!
Thanks for keeping this simple :)
This was extremely helpful - especially the part about importing from a Word doc. I am curious why there is "scenes" within each chapter if they're not really used... but maybe I'm just missing something and have a lot more to learn about Scrivener! Thanks so much for this! :)
The thing I like about Scrivener is that it lets me easily play around with story and structure, add notes for later. Pain in the ass to format though, but I'll just copy it to Microsoft Word when the writing is finished and do it that way.
OMG! THANK YOU FOR DOING THIS VID!!!
Wow, this was so useful. Thanks. I was completely baffled, and now I'm pretty confident I can use this software.
Ah yes, the three genders: Girls, Boys, and Swedish
I've had the program for years and found it awkward. Thank you so much for your help! I get it now, mostly. Looking forward to more.
This video helped me so much
Thanks for your time, this is complicated but ultimately brilliant software
This video was extremely helpful. Thank you Alexa x
Thank you for doing a PC version!! Everyone else just about, does a Mac version and the software is different. At this point (11 Nov 2020), Scrivener # for PC is at least a month off, if not more. There's no threaded cork board, etc. Annoying! ;)
Thank you so much Alexa. I am a basic type of person myself :)
To create new folders and text pages for your chapters there's easy adding buttons on the bottom left.
I've been watching and re-watching this tutorial, thank you so much for being so good at explaining. One question, can I just ignore the Scenes and just write inside the chapter?
I've never, ever met anyone with my middle name. I've never seen it anywhere except I think in the Olympics maybe. So, imagine my surprise when you wrote "Lavinia" in the names section of your tutorial! Just curious...what made that name pop into your brain so fast? Thanks for the info. Another writer here but writing a novel this time! Happy Writing!
I really loved this video and you're great at showing everything but if you could please slow down for those of us who have never used Scrivener before it would be so much more helpful. You started selecting things faster and faster and it was hard to follow your mouse pointer that I had to slow it down so many times. Otherwise, great vid, thank you so much.
Great video and helpful. Thank you.
So I’m using the free trail and it looks nothing like this. Which makes it hard to follow along. Is there a recent version?
Thank you it's been helpful.
I'm very surprised that you don't have a template premade for your novels. It's so simple to make a template, then you don't have to redo everything every time
Hi Alexa, I just went through your video and tried it. Everything worked well. But my questions is that the first paragraph at the beginning of a chapter shouldn't be indented, how do you set that up in the compile settings? Thank you.
There is something I can't find, and that's where to place the dedication, epigraph, and other front matter materials. This is for compiling to Word. Or are those items I should later plan to insert in Word and not put in Scrivener? Thanks! Again, great video.
Once Scrivner is purchased on one device, can it be used on multiple devices?
Hi Alexa, I work with Scrivener on Windows 11. I like to enlarge the size of letters in the left collum: the Binder part. Can you help me? Thanks, on forehand.
Excellent tutorials - thank you! My challenge today is finding a way to reformat multiple scenes within my Draft simultaneously. I have 50 scenes all in 14 point font that I need to decrease to 12 point. Similarly, I need to reformat the margins. Obviously, I do not wish to do this one scene at a time. Can you help me with that?
Thank you!
thanks alexa its helped me a lot .
How do i get my cork board to look like yours in the demo video. Also, are the NON-FICTIONS format the same as the fiction. You video speaks on the setup for fiction and I need non-fiction…. Thinks seem to be different
Alexa, I stupidly wrote my novel in 4 separate Word files. Is there a way to import them into my Scrivener program as one novel project?? Super thanks !!
Hey Alexa. Is Scrivener any good for children's story books? Not a picture book, but with a few pictures in each chapter.
Thanks!
Ok I might have been living under a rock because I just found out about this lol I'm currently writing a sci-fi fantasy fiction novel do you do new book releases too?
I love your make up
Very helpful, thank you!
the lastest version i didnt finde the option to compile to word document, it just compile to pdf
Scrivener did not indent when I imported the novel. Any suggestions?
Could you share your personal Scrivener setup for a manuscript you worked on?
This look like it works for a chapter base novel. I use a date/place marker. [IE: October 4, 2178 -- Bhutan] so this program don't look like anything i can use. This program also presume you know every Character your using, I dont know all characters until I need that Character. So what am I missing?
just got scrivener but can't get the session target to 0. It comes up as -1574. Any idea why? And is scene the main body of the chapter or do you have to create a chapter under manuscript? Confused.
ok love you for this... :)
Do you do 121 tutoring
How do I delete and unwanted file from Scrivener 2?
RIP Courier New, my favorite font.
If you are beginning your book with a prologue, would it be wise to name that folder prologue? I'm just getting started on scrivener to begin to writing my new book, and I'm still getting used to the ins and outs of it. I am also coming to the end of doing the interactive tutorial, and it is overloaded with information, but it's helpful to come back to when you get stuck with the any of the functions for S. This tutorial was super helpful though! Thank you! :)
Sure--I would name the folder whatever helps you keep things straight :)
If the prologue is from a characters POV would the title of the folder be named the characters name and prologue?
Totally up to you! I would do whatever helps you keep things straight.
Thank you!!
YOu have a pretty smile, first of all. Second, my far left-hand column does not have "novel format." It has manuscript, under which is a card for a chapter and one for a scene. I added a scene to my first chapter (so now I have Chap. 1, with 2 scenes.) I created "Chapter 2." I've spent HOURS trying to figure out how to add a scene. No clue. Every time I add anything, it comes up as untitled, but not indented as a scene under chapter 2. I'm ready to throw in the towel. Can you help me out? Thanks.
Can we check rewrite in scrievner
Nice
How do I remove the indent from the first paragraph but indent the rest of the chapter? Compiler screws up my layout.
Remove indent Ctrl+Left (i.e., left arrow)
What's a novel w parts?
I don't seem to have an actual cork board background. It's just a blank page with like index cards. I'm confused.
its an option you have to turn on in some versions like mine
Hi, I really loved this video since I'm a Scrivener newbie and I simply can't wrap my head around why everyone loves it so much. Here's a question and maybe I'm just an idiot, but why do I need the chapter folders if I can also just have them as a document?
I hope you can help me and if not, I will continue writing with google docs, though I would love to use Scrivener, since I already have it on my laptop. Thank you!
You're not an idiot! I'm an aspiring author too. I didn't have the first clue about Scrivener before watching this video *and* I don't know how to use google docs. Hope that makes you feel a bit better :P
you can. thats the way i do it. i figured it was to much clutter so i trashed it and kept the scene doc
Hey, is there any way I can do page view on windows? It's really getting me stressed because I can't find out how... Please reply! Thank you.
Sloooooooooow dooooooooown, pleeeeaaaaaasse. I hate Times New Roman, even to compose in. Can I compose in whatever font pleases me and convert the complete work back to TNR before compiling it?
I don't follow any of those rules LOL
Sam Denton thanks
I hate Times New Roman also
Corkboards and index cards? Skeuomorphism is so 1999. I hope they have updated UX.
you dont actually have to do the leg work if you initially just duplicate the original scene page and trash the chapter file. my version of scrivener has a 'New Text' option under that green plus sign so you could just do that or hit ctrl+N. i see that you are using a mac though so idk if the controls are the same as mine.
why ??? The times new roman???
I'm using a Windows 10 PC and can't find out how to do the simplest things with Scrivener. I LOVE the software, but the manual is useless, and so many of these official Literature and Latte videos use a MAC, and they keep showing me tabs and features (such as "Preferences") that I can't even find on my version (which is the most recent.) So frustrating. Right now I'm trying to figure out how to create a simple "default format" for each document, but nothing works. I wrote the first draft on MS Word 2016, and when I import docs (scenes/chapters) the formatting is inconsistent. I'm talking absolute basics: margins, indenting, etc. Arrggh. Should be so simple....
What is the difference between Novel and Novel with Parts in Scrivener?
😲Now I want to buy it
All I want tpo do is open a project I've already started again!
good， I watch twice to know it more.
why do you make chapters with the name Jane and Rochester? dont get it
7:03 You read my mind about the default courier new default setting. I hate reading or writing in courier new; the mere sight of it makes me want to puke.
Thanks for showing how to change the default.