Scrivener

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.

There’s a Very Good Reason

I started re-reading “The Compile Format Designer” chapter in the Scrivener Manual (Scrivener, Help -> Scrivener Manual, chapter 24) today.

Goodbye WYSIWYG
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December 27, 2020

What is WYSIWYG

If you know WYSIWYG, What You See Is What You Get, you’ll remember that it promised to put the same thing on paper that you saw on the screen. That is, whatever your text looked like on the computer’s LCD, that’s what it’d look like on paper.

Adverb’s Disease
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September 22, 2016

My writing is afflicted with a horrible disease.

History

EDSkinner.net began in 2023. Fiction and non-fiction publications are included as well as (blog) posts and supplemental materials from flat5.net (2004-present).

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