How to Configure Scrivener for Multiple Novels in One Project From Scratch

[@e.calder_escritor]

You can actually structure the whole Series/book thing in the Templates section, so you just add the series or book folder, and everything inside it is also added. That will make creating a new book (or series) a lot easyer.

[@Dan-Ortiz]

Thanks for sharing this, I really appreciate all the tips you gave, it is definitely a save time, and a great way to organize all your writings

[@izabelamisiak]

Thank you, that was very helpful! My Scrivener was a big mess, and now I'm excited to start using it again. Have a great day!

[@syenite]

Thank you so much for the time and effort you put into this video. I'm a big world builder and have been using Campfire to manage all the world building because all my attempts at using scrivener for all of the books just kept being too burdensome. But I just really miss some scrivener features like the revision mode, side by side windows, , and the outliner and custom meta data in particular. So I tried my hand at keeping all seven novels in one project and... Another mess. But I just found this video and this makes it look SO EASY. I am so excited to try this set up.
And also, Aeon Timeline is just a resource hog in general, I try to use it and my RAM usage just skyrockets. Absolutely understandable that you would stop using it.
Thank you for this, and also now I have some new books to add to my TBR! Always a good day to discover a new favorite series, can't wait to read yours.

[@r.l.parker.author]

So glad I could help. I do have another video up with other details. Also, Affinity Publisher videos for formatting :)

[@nickwgash3760]

1:21 Interesting. Some unusual ways of setting up Scrivener. Not sure I go with you on your dismissal of Aeon Timeline. V3 offers a lot. I find adding meta detail to non consecutive scenes really helpful and I have no idea how I would easily shift Day/Date/Time by, say, -19 days on multiple scenes in Scrivener.

[@r.l.parker.author]

Aron is fine if you have a beefy system. But, it severely lags cheaper/budget computers when syncing with Scrivener. Additionally, it does more than a lot of us need, and is a pita to configure if your fictional world doesn't match earth years/montgs/days/hours. Mine does not.

[@OldRod99]

Nice video! Thank you for sharing your setup! Scrivener is a wonderful program, but it can certainly be intimidating at times :)

[@augustosousa.50]

Boa tarde. Como controla o espaço entre frases e entre caracteres? No In Design surge uma barra em amarelo com vários tons mostrando os "rios" criados no texto. Muito Obrigado pela atenção

[@wekkankq6704]

I am so happy to have found your channel and this wealth of information. I appreciate your organization, and your presentation has been very helpful. One question. I am around the 15-minute mark of my second watch, and I am wondering: why not create the front matter, back matter, miscellaneous/incidental folders and their corresponding text docs, etc., within the template sheets? Please correct me if I am not thinking this through, but if I am understanding; anything that would be used across a multitude of projects, wouldn't you want to have a template created so as to just add each to a project instead of creating them new each time?

[@r.l.parker.author]

The only thing that really stays the same of those between books is the general structure of the copyright page. Honestly, I just copy paste from a previous book and end up changing almost everything in them. But yes, templates would work to get those started. But, they just aren't common enough for me to personally bother.

[@wekkankq6704]

I had thought as much, although I haven't as yet gotten to that point with my own writer's journey, the publishing bit. Thank you again for the content. I will rewatch this particular video several more times, I reckon. So insightful. Be well, sir.

[@eldonmacwood]

This is really cool. Although it would be helpful if you shared the template link. I know some writers in the past have shared the template on their websites where you can download, and them upload them to the template manager on Scrivener. And I also noticed that your site won't open for me, not sure if it's a glitch, or a bug of some kind.
I love how you organize.

[@JustBCWi]

I've tried putting all the books in one project. IIRC, my problem was tracking word counts and compiling. I don't see a series about compiling using this approach, would you mind sharing? I have four novels out in one series and two drafted in a 2nd series.

[@r.l.parker.author]

Short answer is Collections. I'll try to film something about that this weekend

[@rmorren9207]

Hey, did you figure out how to get the icons to share the label color? Very informative video.

[@RichardJBarbalace]

New to Scrivener, so I am wondering why you cannot compile just a section of the Manuscript, say Novel 1, instead of setting up a collection manually for this purpose. In my version (Scrivener 3 on Windows), you can select a portion of Manuscript (which you could rename to Series) to compile (say, all of Novel 1). It's definitely useful to organize and have all the research information available for a whole series, but it's unclear why using a collection is better. Was this feature not available previously? Is there some other reason to use a collection for compiling?

[@user-ie1zc5lx2b]

@RichardJBarbalace I’ve had a chance to check out what you said. It seems you’re correct. My only thought is Scrivener is so flexible that there are several ways to do the same thing.

[@Author-CathyGerken]

how did you track the word count in the meta data please?

[@r.l.parker.author]

It's just a column you can add when you customize columns.

[@raghuapara]

wont writing everything makes your labels, keywords, custom metadata panes too cluttered? worried about it.

[@r.l.parker.author]

You are in complete control of your metadata, keywords, etc. Fill in what you want, skip what you don't.