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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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I said what I said

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i’d probably die

Imagine your icon being your therapist

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my hero kindergarten ✧*｡٩(ˊᗜˋ*)و✧*｡

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ฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅ🐾

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This actually really inspired me

Ceramics ist Krieg, Helena Hauss

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this raticate lookin ass mofo lmao

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Got Katsuki on Shouto’s fire side, somebody’s gonna fucking explode and it might not be just Katsuki

they did not get along well

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Precisely.

Chapter 241:

All I could think of during this moment was -

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This is so fucking perfect Kinda feel bad for Shouto with Katsuki rejecting him tho

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*At the League base*

Tomura *drunk*: y’know what else your name sounds like

Dabi *amused by the mess that is his boss*: what

Tomura: daddy

*Dabi chokes on air, Toga squeals, Kurogiri drops a glass*

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ShigaDabi Lovechild

*kid’s born*

Tomura: dabi how is it our child just froze twice to the floor

Dabi:

Dabi:

Dabi: wow can’t believe you cheated on me

Tomura: w h a t

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I can't explain how much I adore these two interacting without necessarily trying to kill each other

DORORO Log : Daigo Brothers

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that one Avatar AU but also including Dabi as Princess Azula, and instead of doing what he was sent out to do he just throws a fireball at Shouto and the Avatar and calls it a day

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more Avatar!AU for some lighting and perspective practice! 👍👍👍

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CANON

“Todoroki-kun, are you okay?”

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Todoroki is getting used to his fire side.

He may become a great cook someday. Or a real bad one.