Thank you Rachael. You've helped a lot of people organize their stories, me too. Your style and manner is also very calm and nice. I appreciate you and making this.

I'm sold. I've only written a few shorts/flash fiction pieces so far but this is perfect for a larger project with multiple plot elememts and locations. Thanks!

I wish I was this organized! I've been watching this video and then going through my scrivener and reorganizing lol this really does help though I don't feel like my notes are all over the place. thanks so much for this video! :)

I used Scrivener Trial once before and thought it was neat, but I never did much with it. When NaNoWriMo came around this year I gave the NaNo edition a spin to write my hack at 50K. I loved it! It allowed me to keep my head on straight while trying to keep up with essentially two interweaving outlines. I was writing a mystery, so I had the outline of the book, as well as the outline of what was happening that the reader didn't see, i.e., what was really going on when suspects "got some 'splainin' to do." It's like someone was just fed up with word processors one day and thought "Hey! I want to make something that helps people actually write!"

Superb video! I love the "mood board" idea. It's such a great way to keep a close connection with the characters when they begin to feel distant. I'm glad to discover you and look forward to viewing your other videos.

"Some people call it 'Bible', but I tend to call it 'Codex'. Because Mass Effect." I use Scrivener for pretty much everything--including my video game projects! I really enjoyed the scrolling motion at the beginning and the shared screen thing. Awesome video, Rachael! A beautiful way to start the year.

I used to use Scrivener. I took a class in its use, got a book. Then I lost a project. I opened up a project I had been working on the night before and it was empty, 39,000 words gone. Not to mention the whole outline. I went for the backup, which Scrivener has a convoluted way of storing and reinstating, and it was just a bare outline. I backup my files to a cloud service in case of a drive crash, but it was just a copy of what Scrivener called a backup. I contacted my instructor, got on the forums no one could tell me where my project had gone or what I did wrong. It was just gone. Since I do not know what if anything I did wrong I just do not trust Scrivener. But, I love Scrivener's features. So, now I write in FocusWriter or Bambo Paper and cut and paste it into Scrivener. So, I can still use the features I love but if Scrivener pulls another Houdini I have another copy. I also backup the FocusWriter to the cloud. I also cut and paste to OneNote as well, color me paranoid.

I discovered Scrivener 8 months ago and it's been a Godsend! These tips are amazing! Thanks so much for sharing!

Love the video! Great job! I have had Scrivener for a while but I love your tips on how to organize thoughts and love the way that you use photos.

Very handy to see how other people use Scrivener, it's amazing how versatile and easy to use it is. (After maybe an hour or so playing with it that is.) Thanks for posting this.

This really inspired me. Your character sketches look amazing. I need to work on mine. I also love the idea of a codex or story bible. Stealing that. I'm so ready to go organize my WIP. Thanks for sharing!

Wow, I love this post. Do much great info for staying organized, your so awesome 😎

Excellent. I've had, and resisted, Scriv for over a year. But started a new novel in it, to prove myself wrong, and am love/hating it still. But! I have spontaneously set up this novel pretty much as you show here. It's logical. I used to work in Word and did much of this file management in the finder. But Scriv is far more efficient and feature packed. Umma steal some of your ideas here, they're irresistible. Thanks. (my maternal family is from Glasgow. hope to take me 90 yr old mum there before she . . . goes.)

Thank you so much for doing this, it really opened my eyes to what scrivener can do. That's hella lot of work, but I think that it is a very useful way to handle a project. I will probably revisit this video multiple times, and curse myself to death for not doing this sooner.

I just started using Scrivener to edit my novel and its been useful. But you just opened up a whole new world for me with the inspector panel! This is going to make edits so much easier!! Thank you thank you thank you! Aaaah!

Hey, thanks for the video! I just downloaded Scrivener and I'm still learning the ropes... I know that the idea of it is to use it however, but that can be really daunting when there's so much to a program like that. It's been really helpful to see how both you and other vloggers use it... so again thanks and much appreciated! :)

This is incredibly helpful

I didn't know you could do that with the documents notes, that's so cool! Once I get the full program I'll start on that when I do my first edit. I really need to have a look at everything Scrivener offers. I hope they bring out an Android version.

This is really handy if I ever get a chance to use Scrivener. Thanks. :D

If I had my eyes closed it feels like I'm being instructed on Scrivener by Amy Pond... I bought it after NaNoWriMo last year and after listening to this I think I know how to use it better. Thank you! Subscribed, clicked thumbs up, very worthwhile, look forward to hearing more.

Great stuff Rachael, thanks, and best wishes from down south.

I totally need to get more organised!

Great video, I love the look of your scrivener, very calming. Mine looks a lot more generic.

Super helpful video!!! Thanks a lot!!!

At the moment, I'm using my Scrivener for my book series and the companion webcomic (which is a recent idea of mine ^_^). This video gave me loads of ideas to organize my prodjects even more than they already are!

Loved the video! Been going back and forth on wanting to buy scrivener, your video was the final push I needed to buy it! :D (also thank god for the 50% off code from winning nano otherwise it'd be too expensive for me xD!)

Hello Rachael, fellow writer and citizen of Earth here, I really, really enjoy your videos -- I don't understand why you do not make them weekly...you are part of the Trinity of writers I follow, the other two being Jenna Moreci and Kim Chance. I equally wish the three of you the best of luck in your writing endeavors and encourage you to become a little more weekly or even bi-weekly. More Elfie!

Thanks so much for this video ! Scrivener indeed improved my writing routine in a huge way but I still search for ways to use it more efficiently, if that makes sense. I used to work with Word and Google documents, so my codex, worldbuilding, characters sheets etc were on google cloud as well as on my hard drive and some notebooks...So it was quite difficult to keep some tracks of everything. Have you ever used Aeon Timeline to help you with your novels ? If so, I'd love to have your opinion on that :)

wait... you can put images in document notes? *runs off to check* YESSSS

This is awesome. Thanks so much for breaking it down. I had watched another tutorial about setting up a book in Scrivner, but it wasn't very usable for me. The way you organize makes so much more sense! I've reorganized my newest book with your tips and I'm loving it already. Do you think it's crazy to reorganize this way with a book I'm already knee deep in?

Your hair is adorable.

How do you figure out how many chapters the book will need and how many scenes in a chapter? Do you have a video showing how you interweave multiple plot embryos and break it down?

Hello, you had me at Cinnamon Buns...

I am new in the Scrivener community and I wanted to ash if you need to pay again for the new upgrade. exemple: I own Scrivener 2 for the 3 version I need to pay again?

I felt special for the first two seconds of the video. Lol

You're the sweetest cinnamon bun of them all

Are you able to print out the outline? Sometimes I'm never near my computer when I enjoy writing free hand and I like to have an outline on me. Also, what do you recommend structure-wise for someone who likes to set up subplots that may take place throughout each chapter? Can you outline a whole series of books using this program? If writing fantasy, can you have a section for certain magical objects and add description for each of them? I'm very much considering giving Scrivener a try. I have a whole suit cases of notes. Some that I don't need but hold onto for sentimental value, but I do need to gather everything together and have some kind of format for an outline.

You're awesome and I wish we were biffles

So far what I'm seeing is that the Mac version of scrivener FAR surpasses the Windows version. Nothing in Windows looks as clean as the mac version. I just downloaded the trial version for PC and doesn't look anything like this. I tried making moodboards and they just look terrible.

Have you sold your book yet?

After buyingScrivener, can you always use it or is it a monthly/annual pay?

How do you create the moodboards?

Helpful, thanks ( .....ah, but gosh the music was so annoying ).

Is there a way to make the ebook with a clickable table of contents? Looks like no. Would need to export to word or Open Office and make one there. What do ya think Rachael?

Can you get Scrivener on a chromebook?

Oh, I look like a cinamin bun do I ?

:D

Nice, though a bit hard to follow in spots - you go a bit quickly. (second viewing was easier - problem solved!) I'll have to check & see if you posted more since this was done last year. Wouldn't mind seeing that pretty face again!

Nicole Kidman?

Sorry but the guitar music is really distracting. I like the fact that you speak rather swiftly rather than dragging things out like so many people making this type of video but combined with the music, it is really hard to follow what you are saying. When you were in your classes at school trying to learn, did they play music in the background?

No need to get all insecure about certain words; accuracy is better. In writing/screenwriting, the term "bible" has absolutely nothing to do with the Christian Holy Bible, Christianity, or being Christian. It's an authoritative piece to help keep consistency in a literary work, series, or computer programming. A codex is a page-based format for your manuscript.

Why is it important that not all the characters are white?

I tried it for almost a full minute. WHAT IS THE FUCKING POINT?

THE GUITAR MUSIC IS IN THE WAY! I'm outta here!

Long winded, yes. I'm sorry, but I left. Good luck.