They will remain in the original material but you won’t want to share this with your ebook readers! Remember to strip out any comments in the material you want to Compile. Copy whatever you want to publish this time into the Manuscript folder.If you don’t already have this icon in your menu, customise your icons to pull it into place.
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Use the Move Left to upgrade that folder so it is the same level as Manuscript.Drag all that you’ve set up so far into that folder.Create a new folder in Manuscript – I’ve called mine ‘My Poetry’.If you select material within the Manuscript folder and try to compile, Scrivener knows this is not your entire manuscript and, while it will export as directed, the options for front matter are greyed out and the icon for an ebook cover is not visible. To publish any of these paperbacks as an ebook, you might think I just have to select the relevant folder/documents in the Binder and File /Compile to ebook as per this blog post. It’s good to have everything in one place? Or you could go one step further and use this single project file to publish more collections.Įven though your Binder will have much more information than you want to include in a single collection, you can use File / Compile to publish whichever poems you want to include this time around.įor example, I have three published poetry collections, published before I discovered Scrivener. You could use Scrivener just to keep track of your material. Copy the poems from my stock into that collection.Set up a new folder for the collection (in the Published collection folder) and give it a title for publication purposes.When I’m ready to create another collection, the process will be straightforward. Scrivener creates a copy of that poem’s document within the collection. Right click and follow the route Copy To / Manuscript / Published collections / Because I must. Scrivener’s Copy To feature is perfect for this task. That’s why I set up a folder for each collection within the Published collections folder. However, I also want to see what I published as collections. Having my complete stock of poems within a single folder is great. Highlight the folder mine is called Stock of poems. If yours are not and you’d like them to appear in alphabetical order, Scrivener can sort them for you. My poems were in alphabetical order by title in the original Word document. If you need to copy and paste text, especially from Word, remember to use Paste and Match Style otherwise, your manuscript will be a mess of unwanted formatting commands – none of which you can see, but they will drive you mad eventually.Īnd don’t worry about inserting the poems in alphabetical order on title let Scrivener do that for you! Sorting poems into alphabetical order by title If your poems are scattered, involving many different sources, the process will be slower, but worth the effort in the long run. These footnotes remind me, for each poem, what inspired me to write it, when that happened and details of the poem’s progress toward publication. When prompted, I identified the Word document I’d prepared with its hashmarks and was delighted to see that the footnotes I’d written in Word transferred to the Inspector footnotes. I highlighted my ‘Stock of Poems’ folder in the Binder and selected File/ Import / Import and Split … This takes a while, but saves effort in the long run. If, currently, all your poems are in a single Word document, it’s easy to pull them into Scrivener using Import and Split.įirst, insert a hashmark (or octothorpe!) ahead of the text that you want to form your document title. I have one Scrivener project for poetry, and a second Scrivener project for short stories. This strategy works for all such material. I started publishing my poetry before I discovered Scrivener, so I had to pull in my stock of poems and then record details of what had already been published, and where.įrom here on, in this article, where I refer to my poetry, this could just as easily be your poems, your stories, your articles, your essays. This is how mine looks for my collection of poems. This provides a great 3-level structure within the Manuscript folder:Īnd you can rename the Parts, Chapters and Scene titles to suit your own requirements. If you plan to keep all your poems (or stories, or articles, or essays) in one Scrivener project, I recommend you start with the Novel with Parts template. The best template for collections of material? I write short stories and poems, and use Scrivener for my stock of this material, including a record of what’s been published and where. Scrivener: perfect for writing collections
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