The English software Scrivener is an excellent writing studio that replaces word processors used on personal computers. Translated into French, it has only one drawback: the tutorials and templates are in English.
This guide allows you to use Scrivener faster by giving you an effective organizational method, without spending days, weeks or months training yourself.
Scrivener Made Simple: The French-Language Guide for Mac (Kermen Practical Guide Collection Vol. 1)
The English software Scrivener is an excellent writing studio that replaces word processors used on personal computers. Translated into French, it has only one drawback: the tutorials and templates are in English.
This guide allows you to use Scrivener faster by giving you an effective organizational method, without spending days, weeks or months training yourself.
You begin your project using one of your existing documents, those you created in Word or OpenOffice. You then rework them in Scrivener by importing them into chapters, reorganizing them for better formatting, and publishing. You can also use one of the templates provided on the author blog gaellekermen.net: journal, novel with parts and chapters, and screenplay.
Scrivener Made Simple is a practical guide in French with Mac keyboard shortcuts. The screenshots were taken during the creation of this guide. Its project organization methodology is also valuable for Windows users, who can easily convert the shortcuts (cmd to CTRL, for example).
Be efficient right away. Stop worrying about formatting and focus on your writing. Gather documents, drafts, and notes. Organize your ideas. Change your plan. Summarize. Edit. Only at the end should you compile everything into an ebook in .mobi (Kindle) or .epub (iPad or Android tablet) format, a PDF document, a blog post, a website, or a printed book—whatever you prefer.
Whether you are a student, writer, author, blogger, doctoral student, journalist, lawyer, professor, manager, editor, scientist, archivist, genealogist, whether you are writing your diary, reports, memoirs, a thesis, a novel, a play, a film script, a collection of poems, you all need Scrivener, at work as in your personal life.
From the initial idea to the project's publication, you'll learn simple steps to get started. Be creative, let your imagination run wild. Write, here and now!
