If you haven’t read my first post with scrivener templates from around the web (which contains more templates,) you might want to start there before continuing with the templates below.
More Free Scrivener Templates
- K.M. Weiland has a great Scrivener template for outlining and structuring your novel. Mac and Windows versions available.
- She also has one of the best writing podcasts out there. If you listen to writing podcasts, check out Helping Writers Become Authors.
- All Indie Writers blog has a case study template.
- Scrivener’s homepage posted a novel template for its members participating in National Novel Writing Month.
- Caroline Norrington has posted a wicked outline template for novels. It’s very detailed, and looks quite useful.
- Jami Gold posted a basic template that seemed to be based on the 7 point plot system. Her article on using beats with Scrivener is quite good and full of information.
- David Hewson has created a story bible template that can be used for keeping the background detail that we writers create. You never know when you’ll need to refer back to it.
- Tony McFadden updated his novel with 4 parts template (to v 2.0 –> This one you need to RIGHT Click, and hit “Save As” in order to get it). The updates are worth checking out.
- Byzantine Roads posted Lester Dent’s Fiction Master Plot template.
Scrivener Resources:
- Sean Williams posted the Vertigo Scrivener template (comic template).
- Belinda Crawford posted about an article Kitty Chandler at Kitty Space regarding a fantastic template she calls the World-building Leviathan Scrivener template. I mention Belinda because she posts great articles and info that I think other writers will find useful. For example, the writer’s notebook template that she posted here.
- Scrivenercoach.com offers great Scrivener training lessons, and they have a slew of blog related scrivener templates: Here are the Power Blogging, 60 Minute Sales Letter, Getting Things Done, Lightning Fast Blog Post, Snowflake Method, and The Minimalist Brainstorming templates. You can download all of them at once right here.
- Claire O’Brien has a great post with Picture Book templates.
- Pen & Muse has a free, Scrivener template full of worksheets and other helpful tools. If you know of any great templates, please feel free to share in the comments section below!
- The folks over at NaNoWriMo have posted updated NaNoWriMo templates for 2016! Windows and Mac versions.
Hi Justin, Thanks for the link to my Scrivener template! (I’ll even forgive you for spelling my name wrong. 😉 )
Interesting! I haven’t studied the 7-point plot system before. (I’m assuming, based on a Google search, that you’re referring to Dan Wells’s system.) But you’re right that it’s very similar to my template.
What I did for my Basic Beat Sheet and accompanying Scrivener template was toss out all the plot point names and instead look at their function within a story. When we get rid of the semantic differences of names, we see that virtually all plot systems come back to the same storytelling structure, as far as what the plot points are supposed to accomplish within the story. So my template just looks at the bare bones of what elements all structures have, no matter what we call it. 🙂
It looks like the 7-point plot system combines my listings of the Climax and Resolution into one plot point of just Resolution. Otherwise, they look very similar.
I say people should use whatever system works for them. So thank you for pointing me toward a new system to check out. 🙂
Jami – thanks for the additional detail, and the comments (I even fixed your name – thx for pointing that out.) There are so many interesting ways to look at novel writing, and to use scrivener… I just thought some other writers besides myself could use being pointed at the good ones 😉
Aww, thanks for the fix! LOL! And I just realized this morning that someone requested for me to create a beat sheet based off the Dan Wells systems months ago, so it was good to discover it. 🙂 Thanks!
Hi Justin. Thanks for the mention, and this lovely list of new Scrivener templates to try out!
Thanks for mentioning my case study template. 🙂
Over at All Freelance Writers (on the Resources page linked near the top) I also have Scrivener templates for managing a single blog, one for managing multiple blogs in a single project file, and a white paper template. I’ll release more in the future (both for authors and common types of freelance writing projects).
Hey man!
Thanks for sharing the templates! Love them and checking them out one by one 🙂
HUGE kudos to you for compiling them all under one roof 🙂
Thanks for the share. awesome!!
Thanks for sharing my Picture Book template!
No problem. Its great! Thanks for sharing so freely.
Any templates for compiling all your favorite recipes into one book? I need my own book, not Shutterfly’s way pricey pages. Help please! Leslie Clark
Here’s a link to how to make one. I haven’t seen an actual template for download:
http://www.pencildancer.com/2012/10/scrivener-for-foodies.html
Great job Justin, the world needs more people to share their genius.
Sorry in advance, I trained as a Graphic Artist in the late 80s then changed fields so this is my first time in Publishing so i am not up with the correct lingo yet.
I am self publishing a Mental health Colouring Book and am trying to use Scrivener.
If there are no specific colouring book templates out there I need a template that has all of the normal book stuff in the front end but with the ability to be very picture heavey with lots of 2 and 5 paragraph text blocks linking to the pictures for Quotes, tutorials and general info on Mental Health.
Thanks for any help,
Cheers Teesha
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Teesha – Thanks for the comment. I’ve looked around, and can’t seem to find one for you. You’ll probably need to create one, if one can’t be found. Here’s a link to L&L’s video tutorial page: https://www.literatureandlatte.com/video.php
I hope that helps!