In July of last year I set myself a challenge to blog about Scrivener, once a week, for a whole year. I called it the 52 Weeks of Scrivener Challenge.
Well, this is week 42 and I can officially say: it broke me. I’m done. I can’t do any more. (Which is mostly to say that my priorities have shifted.)
If you follow along with the blog you know I posted last week about making more time for my fiction writing. My second novel is coming along really well and I feel compelled to run with that.
So I’m calling it quits on the weekly Scrivener posts. But you know what? I wrote 41 in-depth pieces on the topic. That’s a lot of content. And just to prove it, I’m going to list them all here for you. Go ahead, dive in, enjoy.
- 52 Weeks of Scrivener – A Challenge
- Getting Started with Scrivener
- Scrivener Vocabulary
- Using Split Screen in Scrivener
- Color Coding Scrivener
- Getting Started with Scrivener
- How to Use the Document Word Counter in Scrivener
- Getting Your Word Counts to Match in Scrivener
- The Scrivener Inspector: Notes
- The Scrivener Inspector: Bookmarks
- The Scrivener Inspector: Meta-Data
- Scrivener Snapshots
- Comments & Footnotes in Scrivener
- Tidying Up Those Double Spaces in Your Manuscript
- Formatting Fonts in Scrivener
- How to Use the Scrivener Word Frequency Function
- Embed Websites in Scrivener (and Minimize Distractions)
- Four NaNoWriMo Scrivener Tips
- Composition Mode in Scrivener
- Revision Mode in Scrivener
- Quick Reference Windows in Scrivener
- Explore Your Project History in Scrivener
- Scrivener Drafts
- Changing Scrivener Binder Icons
- Scrivener Name Generator
- Tracking Writing Goals in Your Bullet Journal
- Split and Merge Scenes in Scrivener
- Using Scrivener Keywords to Track Ideas at a Glance
- Scrivener Binder Icons
- Creating and Using Scrivener Collections
- Using the Scrivener Timeline
- Highlight Your Adverbs (and More) with Scrivener
- Four Easy Ways to Make Scrivener Instantly Awesome
- Scrivener Front Matter
- Label Colors in the Scrivener Binder
- Moving Things in Your Scrivener Binder
- Smart Quotes in Scrivener
- Backing Up In Scrivener
- Scrivener Text-To-Speech
- Scrivener Dictation
- Scrivener Dictionary & Thesaurus
- Scrivener Footnotes
- Outline View in Scrivener
- Scrivener Layouts
- Lock Your Editor in Scrivener
Feel free to leave a note in the comments below if I forgot anything, or if you have a resource you’d like to recommend to other Scrivener lovers, or if you just want to call me a quitter. I’ve been called worse.
I hope you enjoyed this piece and learned a little something. If you found the content valuable, tips are hugely appreciated.
One question. After your 41 weeks learning and posting about all the weird and wonderfulness of Scrivener (and also forgetting about the fact that you’re an affiliate), if you had to tell a bright-eyed, bushy-tailed April who had never seen/touched Scrivener before to choose to use it or not, would you?
In other words. Is it worth using it without spending a 41-week course on it?
Hi DV!
Yes, totally. But I would have told myself not to waste time on about 39 of the posts until I finished my writing for the day. You can get up and running with Scrivener in about 10 minutes flat (in so far as you can replace Word or Google docs). The rest you can figure out as you go and/or have a little time to kill and/or want to procrastinate. From my list of 41, I would say read #2 and #18. Those cover everything you need to get started. The rest is fun (and can seriously make your life easier in the long run), but extra. Cheers!
Cool. Good to know. 🙂
I’m doing your mini-course. And learning lots. I say, put it in an ebook and sell it.
Lamar
I’ve thought about it. But I’d have to take time away from my WIP, so I keep putting it off. Glad it’s useful.
Hey April — A lot of these links are broken, e.g. #3, 4, 5, 8, etc….
Thank you for the heads-up! They’re all fixed up now. Sorry about the confusion.
Many many THANKS for all your posts ! Enjoyed every single one and learned a lot from them.
So glad to hear it. Thanks!