Create an Inspiring Writing Environment in Scrivener
What you'll learn
- Access folders, files and other Scrivener Project files while in Compose Mode
- Use screen background as virtual stationery
- Change the height and width of the Editor
- Change the screen background to a color, texture or image
- Find free image backgrounds to use in Compose Mode
- Change the editor background to a color, texture or image
- Access the Menu while in Compose Mode [Mac only]
- Use Compose Mode with two computer screens
Requirements
- Have any version of Scrivener installed (can be the 30-day, free trial version)
- Some experience with Scrivener of any version is helpful, but not required
Description
Scrivener created Compose Mode as a "Distraction Free" writing area, but the default setup is not very inspiring. Scrivener 3's default is all dark background with pale white type for the purpose of reducing eye strain, but all it does is make it very unappealing, especially for creative types.
Happily, ALL versions of Scrivener [Scrivener 2 & 3 for Mac and Scrivener for Windows] have options to change the screen background, the editor page background and the fonts to just about anything you want.
In this course, I'll show you the various ways to set up your writing environment which works the best for you. You can use colors, textures and any other image in any combination. Be sure to download the appropriate cheat sheet for your version to see where to go to change the Appearance preferences.
Who this course is for:
- Fiction & Nonfiction writers of all kinds: Novelists, Short Story writers, Screenplay and TV Scriptwriters, Playwrights, Poets, Lyricists, Article writers, Journalists, Nonfiction Book writers and even Cookbook writers!
- Students who write Essays, Thesis and Dissertation papers
- Course creators who use Scrivener to plan online courses or School Teachers & Professors to plan their curriculum
- E-book Writers who want to easily publish in different formats for the different e-book markets
- Great for Bible study and research & lesson planning for Bible teachers
Course content
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Instructor
![Leisa Eining](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
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Leisa created and taught courses for an online school for eight years on writing skills--including creative and analytical thinking, essential research skills, critical thinking, persuasive writing, formal logic, apologetics, polemics, and multimedia presentation creation.
Now, she create courses full-time to help writers in all stages of their writing career from beginner to experienced including how to take full advantage of writer's tools like Scrivener, Scapple and Aeon Timeline 2, also how to discover your writing personality so that you can work with it, instead of fighting against it--and then use it to plan your writing career.
Don't try to write the way you THINK you should write, write in the way that works best for your personality. Your writing personality indicates whether you prefer writing nonfiction or fiction, what genres you will be the most successful writing, whether it will be more effective to collaborate or write alone, what type of research methods you'll use, what type of writing environment will inspire you to write, and whether you work better on a structured, detailed writing plan, or a more flexible and less structured one.