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Project templates: Choosing the right one for fiction
- Scrivener Templates Scrivener is a great tool for both the fledgling and seasoned writer. The ability to design a template that allows an intuitive workflow on every project is one of its strongest points. Once you find out what works best for you writing style you can tweak and reuse a single template.
- I f you haven’t read my first post with scrivener templates from around the web (which contains more templates,) you might want to start there before continuing with the templates below. More Free Scrivener Templates. Weiland has a great Scrivener template for outlining and structuring your novel. Mac and Windows versions available.
Inside the folder are two Scrivener files. One is a basic Scrivener document with the essay structure elements as described in the videos. The other is a Scrivener template file which you can import into Scrivener as a template. This allows you to select the template from the template chooser when opening a new Scrivener file. A cool feature Scrivener offers is the templates. If you select Add New from template Character sketch, it gives you a character sheet where you can fill in various bits of information. If I am honest, I was more than a little disappointed with these character sheets. Although the idea of having them there is nice, they are very basic. The developers of Scrivener anticipated many different types of material an author might want to write. There is a separate template: Blank, Fiction, Non-fiction, Scriptwriting, Poetry & Lyrics, and Miscellaneous.
This question came up during the April session of the Simply Scrivener Special webinar series.
Which project template should I use?
The developers of Scrivener anticipated many different types of material an author might want to write. For each, there is a separate template: Blank, Fiction, Non-fiction, Scriptwriting, Poetry & Lyrics, and Miscellaneous.
If you choose Fiction, there are then three more options: Novel, Novel (with Parts), and Short Story. https://lighdartrese1972.mystrikingly.com/blog/.
For a novel, the Manuscript part of the Binder offers a structure of Scenes within Chapters. The Scenes are ‘texts’; the Chapters are ‘folders’ which hold the Scenes.
The Scene is considered to be the smallest element of a novel, one in which the action focuses on a particular period of time, with a particular cast of characters at a particular place. Once one of these changes, you have a new scene …
For a novel with parts, the Manuscript shows Scenes within Chapters within Parts. Scenes are still text. Held within the Chapter folders which are then within the Part folders.
My Perfumed Ladies Book group recently finished reading A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler, and it had four parts. Each part offered a different point of view, and revealed more about the Whitshank family; it was a good read!
For a novel (with or without parts), the Binder is presented with a Front Matter section and three exporting options.
- A manuscript, eg for an agent to consider
- A paperback, as in traditional printing
- An e-book, for a digital product
For each exporting option, there are different expectations for what might appear at the front of the book, and Scrivener provides for all eventualities.
- The Manuscript Format just has a title page.
- A Paperback Novel has the title page plus a copyright page, a dedication page and a blank page. (Why a blank page? So that Page 1 of your novel is on the right-hand side (called recto).
- The E-Book needs a cover and one page is offered for a dedication.
You don’t have to include all the offered pages, and you can add more pages if you wish, for example, to provide a list of your publications to date.
For a short story, there is no Front Matter section.
Instead, the first page, (called the First Page Header) is presented ahead of the Story and the Scene texts appear within the Story folder.
So, if you decide before you start what it is you are writing, Scrivener provides the appropriate structure for you via the template options.
And does it matter?
What if you set up a Story and it grows to the point where it’s turning into a Novel?
Not a problem … Set up a new project using the Novel template, and drag the Story folder, complete with all its Scenes, across to the Manuscript folder.
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Then decide which Scenes belong in which chapters and move them into place. Not so easy to show that here but, if you attend a Simple Scrivener Special, I’ll demonstrate how, on screen. No charge!
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