A short story, something that doesn’t need complicated chaptering. Read and work with the manual, do their little assignments, and then start with something small. BUT you can go back to earlier snapshots if you prefer another version.
From there you edit and from there you compile your output texts, in short-cut if you’ve setup your preferences for every task. In Scrivener, it’s always the one, recent version to work with. So much less complications with several files in different formats! Scrivener keeps it all tidy, and you choose what you need the text to look like for each use. There is always your one, current file you work with, and you just alter its output, the compiles, for your needs. This also forces you to make all the changes in this one place, the source text. Whatever you choose as your compile option, the source text is NOT changed by this! Now I only choose “File” – “Compile As- “Sarah_foredits” and print the compiled text in the formatting I set up for my handwritten editing: wide margins, space and fonts etc. One is for my own printout-editing for editing drafts. There are no limits and it’s a very fast way to get what you want for the type of output you want from the text.įor example: I have several setups. As e-book, for editing, for print, in dozens of formats you can choose from or you set up your own – beforehand. Scrivener’s strongest point in comparison to Word is that you have just the ONE source text (and Scrivener automatically takes snapshots of it to save its stages, so you can go back to earlier versions at any time), and you can from there compile the story into every format you need. Once this is set up, you could theoretically write every story with your preferred settings, or go back there and use different settings for every story, just as you like. Very important, and well worth putting the effort in. What you want your text to look like while typing the story (while you’re writing it, not finally! Everything else, the output, or compile, later on can be changed according to what you need the text to look like in its final stage.) Go to “Tools – Options” and then work through the points that interest you. The basic setup is important, because it’s your fast-track to your preferred settings.
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