It was quite interesting to watch this video. I came here because even though I have used Scrivener version 3.x for quite a long time, I have not used it often in the last two years and I wanted to see a how-to of Scrivener basics as a refresher. This means I'm quite the amateur writer (smile.) I think you present really well in this video. The videography is excellent. I wish you had organized this video into discrete sections, so I can go straight to the sections I think are useful to me. Also, I'm deaf (I can't hear) so I use the automatic closed caption feature of UA-cam for a transcription of what you are saying. You move a little quickly with screen shots as you discuss features. I have to watch the caption text to get your commentary and then turn my attention to the screen shot you are showing. It is a little hard for me to do, but that is just me. I can replay the video. Scrivener does automatically save your work: it does this every 2 seconds by default. I've never lost a Scrivener project and I have bunches of them, including a couple of recent projects I've begun working on. A little research into how Scrivener automatically saves your work helps. Literature & Latte, the vendor, has a blog entry on saving Scrivener projects that is well worth reading. Thank you for this video.
Thank you so much for your comment, Robert! I actually just created a blog post to make this information more accessible; you can view that here: www.laurenkaywrites.com/blog/how-to-use-scrivener-a-tutorial-for-fiction-writers . And then I'm sure you already know this, but you can adjust the speed of the UA-cam video to make it faster or slower. And finally, there are timestamps for each section in the description so that you can jump to the sections that apply to you. I hope this helps; happy writing!
@@laurenkaywrites Thank you so much, Lauren, for responding. I really appreciate it. I brought up your blog post on my phone and it is indeed helpful to me. I can work with Scrivener on my Mac and review your blog post on my phone, which is very convenient to do. I didn't know that that the speed of UA-cam video is adjustable --- that is something new for me. I shall have to experiment with it. Yes, your description for this video has a nice list of timestamps which I didn't see at first. I was thinking of something related to that: a UA-cam feature called video chapters. I found a support article here: support.google.com/youtube/answer/9884579?hl=en .... I want to thank you again for this video, and also your blog post. I'll certainly be referencing your blog post as I use Scrivener.
thank you so much for this. You really helped me out. I've been using Scrivener for a while but you taught me so much and made a lot of things easier for me.
I’ve been spending years trying to write a memoir and used scrivener. It wasn’t until I went to a video like this did I realize I was doing scrivener completely wrong. I wasn’t using section types or anything like that. I got confused about the separate folders and just used one text page per chapter. I ended to putting a mountain of notes in the note sections being clueless the bookmarks page can have media dropped into it. Then I realized the best way to write is to write each scene out as a text page and organize it that way. Then you can see the outline, write directly into it. It’s made the process so much clearer. Especially I can use a folder as chapter and look at the entirety of it if I wish.
Oh, I'm surely grateful for this! I just started writing my first serious book after I've dedicated a good six months to write an extended synopsis on an actual notebook 🫠 The compile thing is still quite a nut to crack, but your video sure made it easier to understand some parts I haven't until now. Thank you! ❤
I've been using scrivener for a while, but I didn't write for a while so I wanted to remember how everything works and found this video, and OH MY GODS THE NAME GENERATOR!!!!!! I can't tell you how much time I spent going insane over finding surnames, this is gonna be such a lifesaver from now on. Thank you so much!!!!
That was SO helpful, thank you! I'll definitely have to re-watch this several times to absorb all that info, but you've made it way less intimidating, haha!
I've been writing novels for five years and just switched to Scrivener, and I honestly feel like I just exited the stone age 🤣 convincing writers to download this software is now my new special interest!
Thank you, good video. I've been getting back into Scrivener recently after a gap of a few years. I wanted a refresher but you've shown things I didn't know Scrivener can do. As you say, it's a BIG program and while there's no need to know it all, it's interesting to learn new stuff.
I finished he first draft of my trilogy the hard way. I think I am going to work with Scrivener for the second book. This looks really great. Thank you!!
I've been using Scrivener for about five or six years now, but there's always something to learn from how someone else uses it. I might have to steal that concept of color coding the perspective character. Sounds useful for finding specific scenes later when I want to make sure details match up. I never export for print. Instead, I export as .docx for a final read through and print from there. The habit dates back to a much older version where the print formatting was a bit off, but I've made use of the process, so I still do it.
Wow, I'm learning something too. Honestly, just shows what a versatile platform it is! I definitely recommend you give the color-coding a try, I'm a very visual person so it helped me a lot.
Thank you for the section on compile. It is always easier to understand something when someone shows you the ropes, rather than reading the same instructions from the manual. I absolutely love Scrivener. Whenever I tried to write in Word, my mind would explode in trying to keep all the various elements, the half-written & re-written bits, organised. I particularly like the Key Word function. I can add key words detailing not just the point of view, forex, but also the various narrative threads (I have too many of them; they need to be thinned out) & input a key word as search criteria to bring up those scenes. You do have to be disciplined about ensuring you add them, but it is a very useful tool.
I love scrivener, but when it comes to formating, its not at all easy, especially if the format you want is Chapter > Scene > Part rather than Part > Chapter > Scene. It's easy enough to drag everything into the right place, but then you basically have to change every configuration and do a custom compiler format to get it printed. Compared to Google docs though is awesome. I basically use scrivener to keep everything organized. If you have any advice for where to keep outlines, that would be appreciated.
Very good short tutorial. Only just started to look at using the software. I use an iMac/iPad combo, so I personally save to a folder on iCloud. Then I can open it on my iPad from the same iCloud Drive. A side effect of this is that it renumbers the project name -1 -2 which might be good or bad I guess.
I have learned enough to know I need to spend more time with it. I got the free trial and tried to read through the tutorial, but gee whiz is it time consuming and not that easy to visualize. I appreciate the information you have provided here; some feedback for the next Scrivener vid is maybe slow it down slightly for those of us who are truly brand spankin' new...I will need to go elsewhere to get even more basic information for how to get started, but I do appreciate the quick and engaging tour of many cool features.
Wow, great presentation! Very helpful and informative, thanks. I am just switching from Pages to Scrivener (after decades using Word). I'm looking forward to drafting my next novel in Scrivener, but kind of dreading importing and formatting the five novels I've finished.
I've also used MS Word for several decades, even at a publishing house where I used to work. I've got 4 novels in various stages and am looking forward to moving over to Scrivener so I can more easily move chapters around and also for the daily word count tracker for accountability. It looks like my final export would be need to be to Attiticus since I am on a PC not a Mac (otherwise I'd use Vellum to format final book)
Does the backup is not working?? 😢 us it a bug?? Let me know if the forums gave you an answer to prevent this? I always backup the scrivener folder in local and clod
Oh wow - overwhelmed by all of the people this has helped! Make sure to grab my free Cheat Sheet: www.laurenkaywrites.com/scrivener with all of these tips so that you have that handy whenever you need it! I also created a blog post that covers everything I go over in this video to make the information more accessible; you can view that here: www.laurenkaywrites.com/blog/how-to-use-scrivener-a-tutorial-for-fiction-writers . And if you want to level up even further, check out my 1-hour workshop! www.laurenkaywrites.com/scrivener-workshop ! Happy writing and scrivening, friends!
I'm working on my first draft of my first novel as a teen writer so I think I'll stick to docs. This seems good for if publishing is a goal in view (I would love to publish this book but if I do I don't think that will happen for a while!) I have a loose outline of my book and I am just strating from the beginning and writing it through (on Chapter 12 now). I have given thought to how my characters will change over time and sub-plots, however not so in depth that scriviner would be essential. I am just writing and seeing what happens! Perhaps I'll invest in it for later drafts.
Would you recommend Scrivener for not only screenwriting but making scripts for UA-cam or do you think something like Notion would suffice? Also, do you prefer Scrivener over Final Draft?
I have Scrivener and it's super useful to write on the laptop around and then have everything updated on the main computer, but I definitely need to know more of it. Hope this guide will help
Mastering an application comes with using it. This tutorial is an overview of how Lauren likes to use Scrivener. It may or may not suit you, but it gives a starting point rather than contemplating a blank page and not really wanting to read how to do it. Depending on how you write and how you want to manage your work, you will refine your utilization of Scrivener along the way. Note that it is possible to tailor Google Docs to a "poor boy" facsimile of Scrivener, if you really can't justify purchasing Scrivener.
This was extremely helpful and the first tutorial that I feel helped me to actually set up scrivener for writing versus a template that confuses me later on.
I love Scrivener. However, when I wrote my first book in 2019 I wrote the book in Word pad. Yes, WORDPAD. I didn't have money for MS Word so I just used Word Pad. I still use it sometimes 😅
Hi, I am just getting started with Scrivener. This is a steep learning curve but your video helps a lot, so thank you! Thanks for the tip on setting Dropbox to save files for back up. However when I go to Dropbox and try to open the Srivener files, it says Scrivener is unsupported and it can't open the files. Just wondering if you have any advice on that. Thanks.
Hi! Try to pull up the files when you are in Scrivener (go to your dropbox and select the file) and make sure you're in the folder where they're saved, not the backup folder. Scrivener has amazing customer support, so reach out to them if that doesn't work!
Hi I used to use " write it now " software for novelist. It's no longer available, but most of the features presented here were automatically done for you with write it now. I'm now having to learn scrivener, a product I consider inferior in every respect. 😢 Write it now was so much better because it was so more intuitive. A terrible lose for would be novelist 🥴.
What did write it now actually do? Do you still have tip sheets or samples? Maybe you could get it reconstituted. Or rethink or reimagine it into a Scrivener template...
@@newlife8318 with rewards to scrivener. You have to create your own file's and folders. Most of these tasks are done for you or dune automatically. With little effort or uncertainty on your part. Scrivener is like driving a stick shift. Writeit now, automatic transmission 😀.
Thank you for this! I am switching to this software now. Question. Do you feel like I would be wasting my time as a new author, trying to query a 273,000k epic fantasy book? It does have a natural split in the middle where it could be two books, but I have heard agents don't really want to have this many words in debut authors. What are your thoughts?
Hi! Glad you're giving it a try -- it's game-changing! I would definitely say that 273K is too long to be comercially viable for 99.9% of publishers for debut authors. Sure, GoT was about that, maybe 20K more, but that's certainly the exception, not the rule. For max results, I'd look into either cutting it down or seeing if you can re-plot out the beat points and restructure into two novels.
@@laurenkaywrites thank you! That is what I was assuming, but just wanted to check it. The natural split at middle would make sense too. Thank you for your reply! Appreciate the help!
This is kind of a random question, but is there a way to have Scrivener put in specific chapter numbers? I'm part of a writing workshop, and so I submit a few chapters at a time, rather than all at once... and I was hoping to have it start the count from 43 to an epilogue, for example. Does anyone know if there's a way to do that?
I just downloaded Scrivener on my iPad and I’m trying to follow your intro. Video and your video looks nothing like my screen does on my iPad. What’s the problem again? I’m not seeing the same identical things you’re talking about. That’s on my iPad screen at the moment I need help.
I’m a bit lost at the Dropbox backup. I was hoping it would be on your cheat sheet but I don’t see it. Do you have it spelled out a bit more anywhere else?
Sorry for any confusion! If you are a Dropbox user, Dropbox will be a folder on your computer. So you just want to select that folder as the folder for your Scrivener projects. On Scrivener's end, there isn't anything you need to do there aside from select the folder (which is why it's not on my cheat sheet). So the main thing you need is a Dropbox subscription and to know where your Dropbox folder is located. Hope this helps!
I don't understand you. Is your opening screen different from mine? Where in the world do you find a place where you can choose a template? I Can't even find the word "template" on the home screen. And the "help" button doesn't help. If you're going to start at the beginning, you gotta start at the beginning. Otherwise we're just as lost as we were before you started.
You say you are jealous. REALLY? Envy is when you want what someone else has, but jealousy is when you're worried someone's trying to take what you have. YOU ARE CONFUSED. I DO WISH people who spend their time writing would learn the language they write in. Grrrr But thanks for the main purpose of this video.
If you don't care what comes out of your mouth or whether you facilitate comprehension, well a bit of shame would be becoming. Languages are invented for a reason and used out of the mouth or in print best when the brain is engaged. Your red herring about calm perhaps belongs to you.
Jesus who voted this up 1.7K times? super annoying, every verbal tick, right? Like, I only need to know a few key features? so I should be overwhelmed? omg, I'm so relieved I don't want to have to double up my ritalin!
Hi Lauren! Could you do a video on story structure? :) I know there’s a lot of them on UA-cam already, but I’d love to hear your takes on it and what you’ve learned about it so far 🤍
Update: I now have a mini course on story structure available here: www.laurenkaywrites.com/novel-outlining-workshop . Feel free to let me know if you have any other topics you'd like me to cover! I love hearing what content you'd enjoy the most. :)
I just downloaded Scrivener on my iPad and I’m trying to follow your intro. Video and your video looks nothing like my screen does on my iPad. What’s the problem again? I’m not seeing the same identical things you’re talking about. That’s on my iPad screen at the moment I need help.
this totally revolutionized scrivener for me! i've tried it twice over the last few years and never got into it but this is amazing. thank you!
I'm so glad!
I've had this program for years and didn't know it had a built in name generator! Thank you!
Pretty cool, right?! :)
Ok Lauren Kay ... ok. I'm only 7 minutes into this and I am just super excited about using Scrivener. You are such an AMAZING teacher!!!
Thanks so much
Thank you so much for not assuming that we know where to begin.
You're so welcome! I never like to assume -- anyone can start their journey at any place. :-)
Relatable....I so laughed at this ....🤣
This is brilliant, thank you!! I'm trying to figure out if I should buy a licence. I'm sold! Thank you. Some great tips here.
You're so welcome!
It was quite interesting to watch this video. I came here because even though I have used Scrivener version 3.x for quite a long time, I have not used it often in the last two years and I wanted to see a how-to of Scrivener basics as a refresher. This means I'm quite the amateur writer (smile.) I think you present really well in this video. The videography is excellent. I wish you had organized this video into discrete sections, so I can go straight to the sections I think are useful to me. Also, I'm deaf (I can't hear) so I use the automatic closed caption feature of UA-cam for a transcription of what you are saying. You move a little quickly with screen shots as you discuss features. I have to watch the caption text to get your commentary and then turn my attention to the screen shot you are showing. It is a little hard for me to do, but that is just me. I can replay the video. Scrivener does automatically save your work: it does this every 2 seconds by default. I've never lost a Scrivener project and I have bunches of them, including a couple of recent projects I've begun working on. A little research into how Scrivener automatically saves your work helps. Literature & Latte, the vendor, has a blog entry on saving Scrivener projects that is well worth reading. Thank you for this video.
Thank you so much for your comment, Robert! I actually just created a blog post to make this information more accessible; you can view that here: www.laurenkaywrites.com/blog/how-to-use-scrivener-a-tutorial-for-fiction-writers . And then I'm sure you already know this, but you can adjust the speed of the UA-cam video to make it faster or slower. And finally, there are timestamps for each section in the description so that you can jump to the sections that apply to you. I hope this helps; happy writing!
@@laurenkaywrites Thank you so much, Lauren, for responding. I really appreciate it. I brought up your blog post on my phone and it is indeed helpful to me. I can work with Scrivener on my Mac and review your blog post on my phone, which is very convenient to do. I didn't know that that the speed of UA-cam video is adjustable --- that is something new for me. I shall have to experiment with it. Yes, your description for this video has a nice list of timestamps which I didn't see at first. I was thinking of something related to that: a UA-cam feature called video chapters. I found a support article here: support.google.com/youtube/answer/9884579?hl=en .... I want to thank you again for this video, and also your blog post. I'll certainly be referencing your blog post as I use Scrivener.
thank you so much for this. You really helped me out. I've been using Scrivener for a while but you taught me so much and made a lot of things easier for me.
I'm so glad!
I am fairly familiar with Scrivener, but I really appreciate your practical take on how to use it. Thank you.
This means so much to hear; thank you Stephen!
I’ve been spending years trying to write a memoir and used scrivener. It wasn’t until I went to a video like this did I realize I was doing scrivener completely wrong.
I wasn’t using section types or anything like that. I got confused about the separate folders and just used one text page per chapter.
I ended to putting a mountain of notes in the note sections being clueless the bookmarks page can have media dropped into it.
Then I realized the best way to write is to write each scene out as a text page and organize it that way. Then you can see the outline, write directly into it.
It’s made the process so much clearer. Especially I can use a folder as chapter and look at the entirety of it if I wish.
So glad to help!!
Oh, I'm surely grateful for this! I just started writing my first serious book after I've dedicated a good six months to write an extended synopsis on an actual notebook 🫠
The compile thing is still quite a nut to crack, but your video sure made it easier to understand some parts I haven't until now. Thank you! ❤
I've been using scrivener for a while, but I didn't write for a while so I wanted to remember how everything works and found this video, and OH MY GODS THE NAME GENERATOR!!!!!! I can't tell you how much time I spent going insane over finding surnames, this is gonna be such a lifesaver from now on. Thank you so much!!!!
YAY! So glad to help :)
Thank you so much for this video! The biggest draw back to this software was the learning curve. You really saved me hours. Thank you!
So glad it helped! :)
That was SO helpful, thank you! I'll definitely have to re-watch this several times to absorb all that info, but you've made it way less intimidating, haha!
I'm so glad!!
Just started writing and had someone suggest using this tool. Def following you now in case I need to circle back later!
Awesome! Glad to have you here :)
I've been writing novels for five years and just switched to Scrivener, and I honestly feel like I just exited the stone age 🤣 convincing writers to download this software is now my new special interest!
hahaha, same!
Thank you, good video. I've been getting back into Scrivener recently after a gap of a few years. I wanted a refresher but you've shown things I didn't know Scrivener can do. As you say, it's a BIG program and while there's no need to know it all, it's interesting to learn new stuff.
So glad this was a good refresher as you dive back in!
From some one that does software related tutorials, your tutorial was EXCELLENT. Thank you!
This is so kind, thank you!!
I finished he first draft of my trilogy the hard way. I think I am going to work with Scrivener for the second book. This looks really great. Thank you!!
Hope you enjoy it!
I've been using Scrivener for about five or six years now, but there's always something to learn from how someone else uses it. I might have to steal that concept of color coding the perspective character. Sounds useful for finding specific scenes later when I want to make sure details match up.
I never export for print. Instead, I export as .docx for a final read through and print from there. The habit dates back to a much older version where the print formatting was a bit off, but I've made use of the process, so I still do it.
Wow, I'm learning something too. Honestly, just shows what a versatile platform it is! I definitely recommend you give the color-coding a try, I'm a very visual person so it helped me a lot.
Thank you for the section on compile. It is always easier to understand something when someone shows you the ropes, rather than reading the same instructions from the manual. I absolutely love Scrivener. Whenever I tried to write in Word, my mind would explode in trying to keep all the various elements, the half-written & re-written bits, organised. I particularly like the Key Word function. I can add key words detailing not just the point of view, forex, but also the various narrative threads (I have too many of them; they need to be thinned out) & input a key word as search criteria to bring up those scenes. You do have to be disciplined about ensuring you add them, but it is a very useful tool.
Thanks so much! I'm so glad was helpful :) I (obviously) love Scrivener, too.
That is a really generous tip from you! I hope I can follow all this enough to get started and persist! Thanks again! 💐
I love scrivener, but when it comes to formating, its not at all easy, especially if the format you want is Chapter > Scene > Part rather than Part > Chapter > Scene. It's easy enough to drag everything into the right place, but then you basically have to change every configuration and do a custom compiler format to get it printed. Compared to Google docs though is awesome. I basically use scrivener to keep everything organized. If you have any advice for where to keep outlines, that would be appreciated.
This is such a great video. You covered so much helpful ground, and you made it entertaining with your endearing personality. Thank you!
of course!
Hi Launren thank you for the informative tutorial. Loved the fact that you are helping others get their stories out into the world :)
You're so welcome!
Very good short tutorial. Only just started to look at using the software. I use an iMac/iPad combo, so I personally save to a folder on iCloud. Then I can open it on my iPad from the same iCloud Drive. A side effect of this is that it renumbers the project name -1 -2 which might be good or bad I guess.
I have learned enough to know I need to spend more time with it. I got the free trial and tried to read through the tutorial, but gee whiz is it time consuming and not that easy to visualize. I appreciate the information you have provided here; some feedback for the next Scrivener vid is maybe slow it down slightly for those of us who are truly brand spankin' new...I will need to go elsewhere to get even more basic information for how to get started, but I do appreciate the quick and engaging tour of many cool features.
thanks for the feedback, Taylor!
Thank you so, SO much Lauren! You're a complete life savior ! Kudos to you
You're so welcome!
Wow, great presentation! Very helpful and informative, thanks.
I am just switching from Pages to Scrivener (after decades using Word).
I'm looking forward to drafting my next novel in Scrivener, but kind of dreading importing and formatting the five novels I've finished.
I've also used MS Word for several decades, even at a publishing house where I used to work. I've got 4 novels in various stages and am looking forward to moving over to Scrivener so I can more easily move chapters around and also for the daily word count tracker for accountability. It looks like my final export would be need to be to Attiticus since I am on a PC not a Mac (otherwise I'd use Vellum to format final book)
This was so helpful!! Thank you for making awesome content! 😄
You're so welcome!
Very helpful! Finally going to try it out, thank you!
So good to hear!
God, I've spent so much time organizing my Google Doc by adding subtitles and changing the font color to make it structured by POV and progress. 😂
Thank you it was very helpful, maybe I can start my fantasy writing now more easily while doing my phd :)
This will be an amazing combination! Will Scriver help write your PhD? Are there support videos for Scrivener for Academic writing?
Thank you so much! Using this app to write my dissertation thesis, very helpful
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you so much for this helpful vid! Now I feel like I can go into the program more confidently!
I’ve lost my work on scrivener three times and because of this I’ve decided to save my work on multiple platforms to prevent it happening again.
That sounds so stressful! I always keep back-ups of my projects!
Me too, I've been burnt too many times because of technical hiccups.
Does the backup is not working?? 😢 us it a bug??
Let me know if the forums gave you an answer to prevent this?
I always backup the scrivener folder in local and clod
I love Scrivener and use it all the time! BUT I also back-up in several ways-not taking any chances!
@@aprilsmithswe I now use word instead. And keep Scrivener for plotting and idea dumping, scenes.
Thank you for providing such valuable and informative content for someone like me who is new to this.
You're so welcome!
I have been using Scrivener for years and this was incredibly helpful. thank you!!
Yay!!
💐
Thank you so much! Your video was very helpful. Grateful!
Glad it helped!
Oh wow - overwhelmed by all of the people this has helped! Make sure to grab my free Cheat Sheet: www.laurenkaywrites.com/scrivener with all of these tips so that you have that handy whenever you need it! I also created a blog post that covers everything I go over in this video to make the information more accessible; you can view that here: www.laurenkaywrites.com/blog/how-to-use-scrivener-a-tutorial-for-fiction-writers .
And if you want to level up even further, check out my 1-hour workshop! www.laurenkaywrites.com/scrivener-workshop !
Happy writing and scrivening, friends!
Great software. I have been unable to find a good how to get started video. Until now. Many thanks! Sub'd!
Awesome! And thanks for the sub :)
I'm working on my first draft of my first novel as a teen writer so I think I'll stick to docs. This seems good for if publishing is a goal in view (I would love to publish this book but if I do I don't think that will happen for a while!) I have a loose outline of my book and I am just strating from the beginning and writing it through (on Chapter 12 now). I have given thought to how my characters will change over time and sub-plots, however not so in depth that scriviner would be essential. I am just writing and seeing what happens! Perhaps I'll invest in it for later drafts.
Would you recommend Scrivener for not only screenwriting but making scripts for UA-cam or do you think something like Notion would suffice?
Also, do you prefer Scrivener over Final Draft?
I use it for UA-cam scripts as well! And sorry, haven't tried Final Draft so I'm not sure!
Would you recommend syncing using Google Drive or do you HAVE to use Dropbox to avoid problems?@@laurenkaywrites
I have Scrivener and it's super useful to write on the laptop around and then have everything updated on the main computer, but I definitely need to know more of it. Hope this guide will help
Mastering an application comes with using it. This tutorial is an overview of how Lauren likes to use Scrivener. It may or may not suit you, but it gives a starting point rather than contemplating a blank page and not really wanting to read how to do it.
Depending on how you write and how you want to manage your work, you will refine your utilization of Scrivener along the way.
Note that it is possible to tailor Google Docs to a "poor boy" facsimile of Scrivener, if you really can't justify purchasing Scrivener.
I had no idea there was a name generator feature! Sooo cool. thank you for this.
Right?! And you're welcome!!
Thank you so much for your help! Is there a way to restore a deleted sentence, like in Word?
You've convinced me. Thank you ❤🔥
I'm so glad!! 🎉
This was extremely helpful and the first tutorial that I feel helped me to actually set up scrivener for writing versus a template that confuses me later on.
Very helpful thank you :)
so glad!
THANK YOU... This was awesome! You are a tutorial master.
I love Scrivener. However, when I wrote my first book in 2019 I wrote the book in Word pad. Yes, WORDPAD. I didn't have money for MS Word so I just used Word Pad. I still use it sometimes 😅
Thank you so much for this comprehensive video! It helped me so much!
I'm so glad!!
I got it as a test and i don’t find most of these options, is it very different from test to licence version or is it a mac/win matter?
i believe is the second one
Hi, I am just getting started with Scrivener. This is a steep learning curve but your video helps a lot, so thank you! Thanks for the tip on setting Dropbox to save files for back up. However when I go to Dropbox and try to open the Srivener files, it says Scrivener is unsupported and it can't open the files. Just wondering if you have any advice on that. Thanks.
Hi! Try to pull up the files when you are in Scrivener (go to your dropbox and select the file) and make sure you're in the folder where they're saved, not the backup folder. Scrivener has amazing customer support, so reach out to them if that doesn't work!
I love Scrivener 3.0 and I cannot imagine why anyone would use other software.
Hi
I used to use " write it now " software for novelist. It's no longer available, but most of the features presented here were automatically done for you with write it now. I'm now having to learn scrivener, a product I consider inferior in every respect. 😢 Write it now was so much better because it was so more intuitive. A terrible lose for would be novelist 🥴.
What did write it now actually do? Do you still have tip sheets or samples? Maybe you could get it reconstituted. Or rethink or reimagine it into a Scrivener template...
@@newlife8318 actually you can still down load it for free. BUT ! You can not save anything on the trial period.
@@newlife8318 seems my previous post was deleted. You can't save anything on the trial period of writeitnow. But you can still down load it.
@@newlife8318 with rewards to scrivener. You have to create your own file's and folders. Most of these tasks are done for you or dune automatically. With little effort or uncertainty on your part. Scrivener is like driving a stick shift. Writeit now, automatic transmission 😀.
Thank you for this! I am switching to this software now.
Question. Do you feel like I would be wasting my time as a new author, trying to query a 273,000k epic fantasy book? It does have a natural split in the middle where it could be two books, but I have heard agents don't really want to have this many words in debut authors. What are your thoughts?
Hi! Glad you're giving it a try -- it's game-changing!
I would definitely say that 273K is too long to be comercially viable for 99.9% of publishers for debut authors. Sure, GoT was about that, maybe 20K more, but that's certainly the exception, not the rule. For max results, I'd look into either cutting it down or seeing if you can re-plot out the beat points and restructure into two novels.
@@laurenkaywrites thank you! That is what I was assuming, but just wanted to check it. The natural split at middle would make sense too. Thank you for your reply! Appreciate the help!
It was very informative, but I wish you could slow down a bit. This has taught me a lot, so thank you. Great Job, Teach.
What does "Novel with parts" mean?
Thanks for this video :)
Glad it was helpful!
How did you open the synopsis bar
This is kind of a random question, but is there a way to have Scrivener put in specific chapter numbers? I'm part of a writing workshop, and so I submit a few chapters at a time, rather than all at once... and I was hoping to have it start the count from 43 to an epilogue, for example. Does anyone know if there's a way to do that?
I think I saw something on Literature and Latte
I love your videos. Thank you 🙂
You are so welcome!
@@laurenkaywrites Thank you 😘
You won me over with the school supply analogy
That was a big help. Thanks!
You're so welcome!
Great tutorial! ❤
I just downloaded Scrivener on my iPad and I’m trying to follow your intro. Video and your video looks nothing like my screen does on my iPad. What’s the problem again? I’m not seeing the same identical things you’re talking about. That’s on my iPad screen at the moment I need help.
Excellent job. Thank you!
Thanks for watching!
How do I add the synopsis and notes? Its not on my scrivener
for anyone wondering: its the blue i symbol on the toolbar! lol
I’m a bit lost at the Dropbox backup. I was hoping it would be on your cheat sheet but I don’t see it. Do you have it spelled out a bit more anywhere else?
Sorry for any confusion! If you are a Dropbox user, Dropbox will be a folder on your computer. So you just want to select that folder as the folder for your Scrivener projects. On Scrivener's end, there isn't anything you need to do there aside from select the folder (which is why it's not on my cheat sheet). So the main thing you need is a Dropbox subscription and to know where your Dropbox folder is located. Hope this helps!
I googled Scrivener and didn't see a website for it? Is it gone?
www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener/overview :)
Do you know how to back it up to the cloud?
Awesome awesome awesome thank you
Very welcome!
Scrivener isn't available in the play store of India. Is it only me?
I don't see the word count button what am I doing wrong lol
haha found it, had to add the icons silly me :) thank you for your helpful tips! :D
I must say, I do like your videos.
I appreciate that!
This was really helpful, thanks
Glad to hear!
I am using Notion as well.
It's the best!
Спасибо из Владивостока!
3:32 (for those looking for the tutorial part)
Thank you for this video! Just getting into Scrivener. Also your eyebrows look fabulous.
So glad! And thank you!! :)
For me confusing is correct. I have one year and a half and I can´t start my novel there yet.
I don't understand you. Is your opening screen different from mine? Where in the world do you find a place where you can choose a template? I Can't even find the word "template" on the home screen. And the "help" button doesn't help. If you're going to start at the beginning, you gotta start at the beginning. Otherwise we're just as lost as we were before you started.
So sorry for any confusion, Serounian! This is the opening screen I see. I am using a Mac though. Perhaps you're using a different version or device?
Thank you so much for doing this video! The video that comes with it isn't very good and is hard to follow.
Glad mine is helpful! :)
I wish scrivner was available for android
Same!!
3:34 start here
Ok but the question remains... Is there a dark mode?
yes, there are dark mode themes online for free
3:30 starts the actual content
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Um, I still don't get it.
You say you are jealous. REALLY? Envy is when you want what someone else has, but jealousy is when you're worried someone's trying to take what you have. YOU ARE CONFUSED. I DO WISH people who spend their time writing would learn the language they write in. Grrrr But thanks for the main purpose of this video.
If you don't care what comes out of your mouth or whether you facilitate comprehension, well a bit of shame would be becoming. Languages are invented for a reason and used out of the mouth or in print best when the brain is engaged. Your red herring about calm perhaps belongs to you.
"Learn Scrivener in 20 minutes" C'mon, the manual is a 711 page pdf file. Just opening a book in Scrivener takes about a minute. 😂
Oh yea, there's no way to learn it ALL in 20 minutes. This is more a quick and easy cheat sheet to the best features :)
Jesus who voted this up 1.7K times? super annoying, every verbal tick, right? Like, I only need to know a few key features? so I should be overwhelmed? omg, I'm so relieved I don't want to have to double up my ritalin!
HI :) I've been following you on ig for awhile and you're helping me so much thank you ily
I'm so glad!
Hi Lauren! Could you do a video on story structure? :) I know there’s a lot of them on UA-cam already, but I’d love to hear your takes on it and what you’ve learned about it so far 🤍
Update: I now have a mini course on story structure available here: www.laurenkaywrites.com/novel-outlining-workshop . Feel free to let me know if you have any other topics you'd like me to cover! I love hearing what content you'd enjoy the most. :)
I just downloaded Scrivener on my iPad and I’m trying to follow your intro. Video and your video looks nothing like my screen does on my iPad. What’s the problem again? I’m not seeing the same identical things you’re talking about. That’s on my iPad screen at the moment I need help.