April Dávila

April Davila - Author

A Scrivener Wrap-Up

52 Weeks of Scrivener Wrap Up

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.

  1. 52 Weeks of Scrivener – A Challenge
  2. Getting Started with Scrivener
  3. Scrivener Vocabulary
  4. Using Split Screen in Scrivener
  5. Color Coding Scrivener
  6. Getting Started with Scrivener
  7. How to Use the Document Word Counter in Scrivener
  8. Getting Your Word Counts to Match in Scrivener
  9. The Scrivener Inspector: Notes
  10. The Scrivener Inspector: Bookmarks
  11. The Scrivener Inspector: Meta-Data
  12. Scrivener Snapshots
  13. Comments & Footnotes in Scrivener
  14. Tidying Up Those Double Spaces in Your Manuscript
  15. Formatting Fonts in Scrivener
  16. How to Use the Scrivener Word Frequency Function
  17. Embed Websites in Scrivener (and Minimize Distractions)
  18. Four NaNoWriMo Scrivener Tips
  19. Composition Mode in Scrivener
  20. Revision Mode in Scrivener
  21. Quick Reference Windows in Scrivener
  22. Explore Your Project History in Scrivener
  23. Scrivener Drafts
  24. Changing Scrivener Binder Icons
  25. Scrivener Name Generator
  26. Tracking Writing Goals in Your Bullet Journal
  27. Split and Merge Scenes in Scrivener
  28. Using Scrivener Keywords to Track Ideas at a Glance
  29. Scrivener Binder Icons
  30. Creating and Using Scrivener Collections
  31. Using the Scrivener Timeline
  32. Highlight Your Adverbs (and More) with Scrivener
  33. Four Easy Ways to Make Scrivener Instantly Awesome
  34. Scrivener Front Matter
  35. Label Colors in the Scrivener Binder
  36. Moving Things in Your Scrivener Binder
  37. Smart Quotes in Scrivener
  38. Backing Up In Scrivener
  39. Scrivener Text-To-Speech
  40. Scrivener Dictation
  41. Scrivener Dictionary & Thesaurus
  42. Scrivener Footnotes
  43. Outline View in Scrivener
  44. Scrivener Layouts
  45. Lock Your Editor in Scrivener

I hope these have been helpful to all of you out there writing 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.

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Comments

  1. 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?

    Reply

    • 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!

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    • 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.

      Reply

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