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SCRIVENER RESOURCES
If you're serious about writing, you'll be serious about the tools you use. Scrivener is widely held as THE tool for writers—the creative suite you've always deserved. You have unparalleled control over your text, and you can even create your own ebooks, and so much more.
Scrivener Non-Fiction Templates
- Academic Paper Template - Michael Alaxelson has given us a template for journals and other publications.
- The Research Project Template and the Teaching Scrivener Template - For professional and educational projects, by Katherine Pickering Antonova. These are currently .xml files as she seems to still be working on them. Fingers crossed!
- The One Page Novel template looks interesting. Brief, but useful. Posted by Lady Writer.
There are discussions on www.literatureandlatte.com/forum/ that touch on templates and how to make them. If you have further questions, try your questions there and the great community will be supportive. If you found this helpful, you might want to check out my follow-up post, free scrivener templates part 2.
Any templates for website copy?
No, sorry.
Whatever this file is, it’s not working:
The SFWA Short Story template – by author Jamie Todd Rubin. This is a short story template intended for SFWA markets. I downloads the template, unzipped it, and nothing, it’s dead. Don’t know what’s wrong with it!
If you open Scrivener (assuming Mac version) and on the initial pop up screen called “Project Templates” that appears click the “options” drop down menu at the bottom, you’ll see an option called “Import templates.” Click on that and then navigate to the template, and that should do the trick.
Good luck!
They’re in the wrong file format. I’m on Scrivener for Mac but it requires the file to be saved a .scrivertemplate. rather than .scriv. The importer only recognises the former and not the latter, therefore I’m unable to upload the latter. Is there any way around this? I’d love to utilise these great templates. 🙂
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Scrap that, I just found how to do it. I’ll include it here for other confused users: with scriv file. Download them, double click on the link and it will auto open in Scrivener. Save as template. With scrivenertemplate. files, download. Follow instruction (outlined by Justin) to import template via Scrivener. 🙂
The links to some of these no longer work. Is there an updated version of this article? These are fantastic. Thanks.
Thanks for the heads up. I’ll look into the links after NaNoWriMo. Cheers!
I want to use that excuse with my clients and students…they just don’t get that NaNoWriMo isn’t a disease. 😀
10.26.16 – Thank you ‘https://justinswapp.com’ for your generosity of time & Scrivener Templates.
I’m by no means a writer, but I enjoy putting my story ideas down on something.
I’m old, retired and mobility challenged. Over many years now I’ve gravitated to fiction story telling. When I finally spent time learning Scrivener I knew it was more than motivational.
Once again, Justin Swapp, thank you. Sincerely, Mike Goodold