![]() My Writing Process, Step 1: General Sketches I’ll be using my historical superhero work-in-progress Wayfarer in the example photos. My goal here is to show you how I actually use the features when outlining. This is how I use Scrivener to outline my novels, using the approach I talk about in my book Outlining Your Novel: Map Your Way to Success. This post isn’t going to teach you how to use Scrivener, so it does presuppose you have some understanding of how the basic features work (e.g., the Binder and Inspector). Outlining Your Novel (Amazon affiliate link) It offers you just about any organizational tool your little heart could imagine–and if you’re like me (and Han), you can imagine quite a bit! So in the interest of helping you take full advantage of this tremendous resource, today and next week I’d like to offer a sneak peek under the hood of how my writing process works when using Scrivener. The program is tremendously detailed and thorough. However, it is true there’s a bit of a learning curve. Kinda like Extreme Home Makeover–but for writers. Seriously, it was as if the designers looked into my brain and took notes while I was outlining my novels–and then designed my dream word processor. ![]() As much as I love new techie stuff, I kept thinking, I don’t have the time for that! But so many of you Wordplayers kept asking me about it that I finally broke down and bought it. One of my mottos has always been, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” Besides, I kept hearing about Scrivener’s steep learning curve. That’s what the writing software Scrivener has done for my writing process this past year.įor years, I’ve been extremely happy with the free organization program yWriter. Not only does every new story require a slightly different approach–and not only am I constantly learning and refining–but sometimes a new tool comes along and completely revolutizes the whole system. Choose the template and that’s it.My writing process is a continually evolving thing. The template will be imported into your “Fiction” templates (could also be in the “Non-Fiction” and “Miscellaneous”). If you look at the file name extension you should see “.scrivenertemplate” so you’re good to go. You’ll probably see that EXEC file icon, but that’s okay. ![]() From Scrivener create a new project and click on the drop-down menu on the bottom left-hand side of Scrivener:Ģ. You can watch me import a Windows made Scrivener template into my Mac version of Scrivener (see video above).ġ. So I was surprised to learn that if a Scrivener template was created in the Windows version of the software, as a Mac user, I would just see that nefarious exec file, that I shouldn’t let that file scare me away.īy doing a simple Scrivener template import the Mac version would be able to handle it and show me the template without any issues. It just seemed it was beyond my tech comfort level. ![]() I’m not a programmer, but as a layman, I was led to believe that you could run a Windows “.exe” or “.exec” file on a Mac without having additional software to do some translations. This seemed apparent to me when I would try to import a Scrivener template and I saw an exec file staring back at me. How to Import a Windows Made Scrivener Template into Scrivener for Macįor a long time, I didn’t realize that I could import a Scrivener template that was created in the Windows version of Scrivener into my Mac version. Import Scrivener template made in Windows into Scrivener for Mac? Short answer, yes! Can you Import a Scrivener Template That was Created in Windows Version Into the Mac? ![]() If you purchase a product using one of our links, we might receive a commission. Disclosure: This page may contain affiliate links. ![]()
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