Tutorial

Introduction

WordPress’ WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) view is great for simple posts. With it, I can dash off a few paragraphs, throw in an image or two, emphasize some words and bold-face others, and hit Publish. Voila, I’ve posted my opinion!

What is Scrivener?

Scrivener is a set of computer tools for organizing, writing, editing, and publishing predominantly “text” works.

Metadata describes or points to other data. In Scrivener, the metadata variable <$author> is the name for a project’s author. In my case, that’d be E D Skinner. There’s also metadata for the name of the current project, <$projectname>. It contains the name of the project-its filename-when it was created.

Introduction

Over thousands of years, storytellers have learned two things about people:

A Simple Book

Let’s say we just want to create a simple book, nothing fancy, with Scrivener. We have three chapters named In The Beginning, The Middle, and It End’th.

For the past several years, I’ve been tasked with taking pictures of the Desert Midwinter competition in Phoenix and I’ve learned a couple of things others might find helpful.

I recently helped a friend set up a website to showcase her writing. We chose WordPress.com for several reasons including the availability of themes that are, in my (and her) opinion, a little more professional looking than what you’ll find at Blogger.

Easier said than done?