by Justin Swapp | Aug 12, 2020 | Blog
Organizing Your Writing with The Corkboard If you’re using Scrivener, there is a good chance that one of the features that attracted you to the software is the corkboard. The corkboard is just what it sounds like, only in Scrivener, and not on an actual corkboard. In...
by Justin Swapp | Aug 12, 2020 | Blog
Read Your Writing Outloud A well-known technique amongst writers in the revision phase is to read your work aloud. You can catch all kinds of grammar mistakes, but perhaps more importantly, you can hear how your writing sounds. Does it sound natural? Does the dialogue...
by Justin Swapp | Aug 12, 2020 | Blog
The Scrivener Outliner – Do I Have to? Outlinining with Scrivener is easier than you probably think. Whether you’re an Outliner or a Pantser, Planner or a Gardner—however you choose to word it—most would agree that there’s a place for some level of organization in...
by Justin Swapp | Aug 12, 2020 | Blog
Meta-data in General Meta-what, you ask? Meta-data is data about, well, data. So, it’s information about the attributes associated with a data point. While this may sound very technical, and in one sense it is, it really isn’t. The most common form of meta-data is...
by Justin Swapp | Aug 12, 2020 | Blog
Funky Quotation Marks are No Bueno Imagine slaving and toiling for hours, days, or even weeks in a manuscript before you realize that your writing is fraught with backward quotation marks! What would you do? Surely there has to be a better way, rather than going one...
