| Title | : | Get Started With Scrivener For Windows (Scrivener Unleashed Book 2) |
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| ISBN | : | - |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Kindle Edition |
| Number of Pages | : | 60 |
| Publication | : | First published January 19, 2015 |
Written especially for people who are completely new to Scrivener, the Get Started With Scrivener For Windows is a fast track eCourse to learn the basics of Scrivener and make it really go to work for you in your writing projects. As a primer to get you over that initial terrifying encounter with Scrivener, you will not find a better read. :)
But this is more than just an ebook. Your purchase includes:
• 20% OFF THE SCRIVENER FOR WINDOWS SOFTWARE
• Two content rich webinars:
1 HOUR: Get Started With Scrivener - How Scrivener Can Revolutionize Your Writing & Publishing
30 MINS: Effortlessly Publish To Kindle Using Scrivener - Watch As Import, Split, Format, Compile & Publish a Book To Kindle In Real Time - All In Under 30 Minutes
• 9 downloadable PDFs
The easy-to-read (and watch) course material is pulled from the best selling Scrivener training, 'Scrivener Unleashed' (LearnScrivener.net), and includes carefully selected videos, PDFs and other resources that are guaranteed to help you become familiar with the Scrivener writing environment, and grasp the tremendous benefits of using Scrivener for all of your writing needs.
Lesson 1: Meet Scrivener
A whirlwind tour of the Scrivener writing environment. Surprisingly easy once you are familiar with it all.
Lesson 2: Easy Ways To Get Your Content Into Scrivener
There are many ways to get content into Scrivener, in this lesson we highlight three of the quickest and easiest.
Lesson 3: Become a Scrivener Formatting Superstar
A tour of Scrivener's excellent text formatting capabilities.
Lesson 4: Get To Know The Scrivener Corkboard
The corkboard is an amazing place to brainstorm and arrange your ideas. This is a really helpful lesson to have under your Scrivener belt.
Lesson 5: The Scrivener Research Folder
The Research folder can hold pretty much anything your throw at it. Learn a few tricks in this lesson and supercharge your research collection and organization.
Lesson 6: Organizing Your Scrivener Binder
Once your documents are safely inside the Scrivener project file, you have the ability to move them around, rearrange, merge and group, and so much more. This lesson introduces some of these amazing organization and productivity boosting benefits.
Lesson 7: An Introduction To The Compiler
The powerhouse engine of Scrivener is the compiler - the ability to take one manuscript and output it for pretty much any platform, whether it be digital, print or web. This introduction removes the mystery, and opens up the hood for you to see and feel its power for your own projects.
Lesson 8: Compile For Kindle Using Scrivener
One of the most popular features of Scrivener is its ability to output a perfect Kindle ready file in just a few clicks. I show you exactly how to do this with a detailed video webinar walkthrough from beginning to end.
Lesson 9: Distraction Free Writing
And back to where it all happens - YOUR WRITING! Scrivener may be packed with other amazing possibilities, but it all comes back to this, and Scrivener does not disappoint. The distraction free writing mode makes crafting your written content a delight.
Lesson 10: Wrapping It Up
A quick wrap up and encouragement to take what you have just learned, and put it to immediate use in your own writing life.
Get Started With Scrivener For Windows (Scrivener Unleashed Book 2) Reviews
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I was looking for a good primer on compiling books from Scrivener for the Kindle. There's a lot of free to find 'how to' advice out there and lots of YouTube videos but almost every one of those articles and videos that I found advocated compiling them not as .mobi files for upload to Kindle but as something else and then taking that and converting it to .mobi using another piece of software. I bought Scrivener to use Scrivener, period.
This book is short on actual content. The author holds all the good stuff for the two 'how to' videos that you get free access to (after signing up with your name and email address) for buying the book. I skipped the first video that shows all his Scrivener tricks and tried to go right to the second one where he pulls an MS Word document into Scrivener, sets it up as he wants it and compiles it for Kindle. The link I got in exchange for my email took me to the correct page but the video wouldn't load. I got error messages every time I tried.
I had to email the author (using the form right below the video) and ask for a direct link to watch it. I received the link sometime overnight but I again had to give my name and email address for access to it. The new link did work.
The video is excellent. It takes you step by step through the process to go from MS Word, to Scrivener (even if you've never touched the program before this) through a Kindle preview and even out to KDP and through that process.
A complete Scrivener beginner and even a complete KDP beginner could use this book/video combo and come up with a very presentable Kindle book. The 2nd video alone is worth the low price of the book. It's too bad you have to buy the book and then give up your personal information to get the video. That and the hoops I had to jump through to get a working video link are the only reasons I gave this four stars instead of five. -
Hook, line and sinker
Gotta admit, I was just looking for the discount on Scrivener software. I took the free video lessons and I bit hard. Wound up signing up for the course, and will put off paying for the software until the trial period is over. -
I really love Scrivener, and I'm not a beginner at it. Still, I can't resist a free how-to book.
The really great thing about this book is that it links you to free tutorials and videos on Scrivener. All you have to do is subscribe to the author's website. There are other more advanced tutorials for which you have to pay, but the basics are completely free. They come in small bites, and you can replay them as much as you like. I've been using Scrivener for about a year and a half and have got reasonably competent with it, but some details have escaped me, so I've learned simple things already and I'm only about half-way through the videos at the moment. Next one up is that bugbear compiling, which I've always had problems with.
Scrivener is a really great program, and they do provide tutorials which are pretty good, but if you're struggling a bit, or just interested in what you don't know you don't know, I recommend this book. -
Learn slip Scrivener Fast - No kidding
I purchased Scrivener when it was first introduced tried it but kept going back to word.
After reading David's book, I actually began understanding this great tool. Will also be purchasing his courses. -
Covers a lot of the same things that are in the Scrivener tutorial that comes with it. But it does have some good downloadable PDF cheat sheets and access to a couple of webinars showing step-by-step processes that I am looking forward to watching.
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It is a very informative shortcut manual for those new to using Scrivener. Much easier to absorb than the in program manual.
