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...
by Justin Swapp | Aug 12, 2020 | Blog
Start A New Project in Scrivener To start a new project in Scrivener, you’ll need to have downloaded a trial here, or purchased the software here. This tutorial assumes you have an installed copy of Scrivener on your computer, and that you are ready to launch the...
by Justin Swapp | Aug 12, 2020 | Blog
Familiarizing Yourself With Scrivener Scrivener isn’t your average word processor. Its layout might seem simple enough, but it is a bit different. So, it’s natural you should expect a learning curve. To use Scrivener to the fullest extent, I personally found it...
by Justin Swapp | Aug 12, 2020 | Blog
If you’re a writer, you’ve probably heard of Scrivener by now, right? Scrivener is widely held as the writing app (software) of choice for novelists, playwrights, bloggers and everyone else that slings text. Today we’re going to explore, at a high level, why Scrivener...
by Justin Swapp | Jun 14, 2020 | Blog
Artemis Fowl Movie Review When I heard that Disney was going to make a movie based on the Artemis Fowl books, I got pretty excited, as did many others. Artemis Fowl, a SUPER popular middle grade series by Eoin Colfer, was recently adapted to the silver screen, and...
by Justin Swapp | Mar 30, 2020 | Blog
Karr is a seemingly normal teenage boy, but he has a little secret. He gets headaches and blacks out when he touches certain objects. Why? Because he’s a force sensitive, that’s why. It’s like he force flashes the experience of any object that he...
