Scrivener 3 | Full Course on How to Use Scrivener 3 for Mac
What you'll learn
- How to open a project in Scrivener and customize your Scrivener workspaces.
- Split your Scrivener screen to have two documents or two versions of the same document open at once.
- Toggle between Scrivener’s Text Editing Mode, Cork Board Mode, Outlining Mode and Compose and how to use each of them.
- Manage your files and folders, and importing your content from another writing application
- Make use of Scrivener’s editing tools like collections and snapshots
- Compile your work for export to your agent, as a paperback or as an eBook right inside your Scrivener software.
- How to download some tools so that you can preview your content before you send it out.
- Customize your visual preferences for the Scrivener user interface as well as the cork board feature
- Import directly into Scrivener from a mind map application
- Keep track of tasks via the comments, notes and annotations features in the Scrivener inspector pane
- Back up and sync your Scrivener projects to Dropbox and work directly from Dropbox if you want to switch between computers
- An overwiew of how to do Scriptwriting in Scrivener
Requirements
- Students need to have downloaded Scrivener 3 for Mac. This course is for Scrivener 3 for Mac. As the software changed considerably when it updated from Scrivener 2.8 these instructions are not compatible with older versions of Scrivener)
Description
Do you want to know how to use Scrivener to make your writing life that much easier? Well Scrivener is not nearly as hard to learn as you have been lead to believe. I highly recommend binge watching the first four hours so that you have a good understanding of what Scrivener is capable of.
The ESSENTIALS section will take you on a complete walkthrough of how Scrivener works with plenty of real examples, a thorough explanation of the regions of the user interface and arrows pointing directly at the buttons mentioned in the transcript making it easy to find them.
Once you know the basics you can go back, dig in to the Scrivener features that suit your writing style best and start creating your awesome content. If you forget how to use a Scrivener feature you can pop back and watch its clearly labeled lecture again. This may be all you ever need to know.
Once your project is underway you can go on to investigate some really cool Scrivener features in the EXPLORING FURTHER section of this course.
These are not advanced or in any way more difficult to learn than the basics; just optional. You can watch all the videos and decide if you want to use them, or browse through the curriculum and choose features that will be helpful in your own writing.
Here's what an early reviewer had to say:
There's a famous quote, "If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter." Karen Prince did take that time and delivered a course that is succinct and thorough. You'll be a master with Scrivener when you're finished. Out of the 50 to 60 courses I've purchased on multiple subjects here on Udemy, this is hands down the best! Thank you to the author! ~ Robert Sandstrom
Who this course is for:
- Anyone wishing to learn how to use Scrivener 3 writing software to write:
- A novel or a series, non fiction books, a dissertation or a research proposal
- Any kind of transcript for movies, gaming development or even their own videos that they plan to use here on Udemy or share to social media sites
- And of course anyone gathering research and writing a blog
- Also useful for Internet Marketers who want to organize their whole campaign from sales letters to scheduled emails
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Instructor
- 4.6 Instructor Rating
- 3,126 Reviews
- 20,575 Students
- 9 Courses
I started my career as an interior designer but have always had a passion for books. In 2013 I wrote one, but like most authors did not have any connections in the publishing world so I decided to format it myself and publish it on Amazon. It was even a bestseller for a very short time.
During the writing and publishing process I was surprised to find how many of my author friends were being held back by not knowing how to get the best out of their writing software and not knowing how to self publish their books so I transitioned into writing books about writing software and teaching people how to self publish.
I had to learn Screenflow to make marketing videos for my books but soon discovered that it is much easier to explain software in a video than it is in a book so I switched to making video courses instead. 6 courses on Udemy so far and 3 are bestsellers.
So my mission statement is to inspire as many people as possible to embrace all the amazing technology we have access to these days that makes publishing easier than ever, and get them to write and publish their own stories and create their own video courses about what they know.