Take Control of Scrivener 2

by Kirk McElhearn

Take Control of Scrivener 2

Finally, write your novel or screenplay with Scrivener 2!

In this ebook, you'll take a creative voyage with Scrivener 2, a unique and popular content-generation tool. Scrivener supports wordsmiths of all types, and it's designed especially for long-form writing projects—scripts, novels, academic works, and more.

Using Melville’s Moby-Dick as his exemplar, author Kirk McElhearn walks you through using Scrivener to create and manage a writing project. You'll learn how to use Scrivener’s Binder, Outliner, and Corkboard to develop characters and settings, collect and organize research materials, and arrange your scenes. Kirk even explains how to keep yourself on track by composing in Scrivener's Full Screen mode and by setting daily progress targets, all on the way to helping you produce a polished, submission-ready manuscript.

Genres: Writing, Nonfiction

105 pages, ebook

First published May 1, 2011

About the author

Kirk McElhearn is a writer, podcaster, and photographer, who has written about Apple products and software for more than twenty years. Kirk has written more than two dozen books, including Take Control books about Apple's Media Apps for Mac, Scrivener, and Audio Hijack. A lapsed New Yorker, he lives near Stratford-Upon-Avon, England.

Reviews

[Christine · Rating 4 out of 5]

A really really good basic primer into Scrivener and some of its more "hidden" features. It's a complement, not a replacement, to the included Scrivener manual. I would strongly recommend this book for anyone getting started with this feature-rich word processing/thinking/organization app.

[Jessica · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book is not bad, but it really was not for me! I am a Windows 7 user and this book is toward the Mac version of Scrivener. While a lot of what is presented in the book applies to both the Windows and Mac versions of the software, far too many times you will read through an entire section of the book on some feature of the software or another only to have the author post a terse note at the end of the sections saying the feature just discussed was not available in the Windows version of the program.

I spent $10.00 for the book and really feel like I wasted my money. I went to the Kindle Store on my Amazon Kindle and found 3 Scrivener books that were geared specifically toward the Scrivener for Windows. Too bad that I can't just return the book like I could if I had purchased it through Amazon.

[Eugen Olsen · Rating 2 out of 5]

The book reads too much like the manual - and Scrivener's manual (and video tutorials) pretty much cover all this material. Not worth $10.

[Rick · Rating 3 out of 5]

I don't really know when I finished this book. In a sense, I probably haven't "finished" it, since I occasionally refer back to it.

The book was useful for what I needed, although I don't feel like it taught me as much as I wanted to know. Maybe there's no good way to learn what I wanted, without just using the program every day – something I don't really do yet.

[Timothy Nichols · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very accessible guide to a well-regarded program. It helped me get up and running very quickly. Remains to be seen whether Scrivener will do what I need it to do, but I'll need to just use it for a couple months to tell for sure.

[Ally Cabella · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a basic intro to the program, but it has plenty of information about the special features that were designed to make it such a great choice for authors.

[Tiffany · Rating 3 out of 5]

Short and sweet. I was hoping for more clever tips for maximizing Scrivener's utility, but this book was an excellent introduction to the program.

[Rick Gill · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good additional read for a great writing project application.