📚 How to Compile a Manuscript in Scrivener 📚

[@JagHiroshi]

Genuinely useful. Many thanks for sharing.

[@ZSDiamanti]

You’re very welcome. I’m so glad it helped. 😊

[@whatifitnt]

Thank you 👍 FYI, music is hard for hearing impaired.

[@ZSDiamanti]

Will fix that for future videos. Hope it was still helpful. 😊🤙

[@wagstaffe7]

The music doesn't help.

[@ZSDiamanti]

Too loud or distracting for you?

[@portiawrites]

It's a little hard to hear you over the music@@ZSDiamanti

[@ZSDiamanti]

@@portiawrites Ah, where the music gets loud in those couple sections. Got it. Thanks for pointing it out. I'll not e that for future videos.

[@TheGuardianofAzarath]

Interesting, i've been using scrivener for a couple of years now to write fanfiction, i usually do one chapter per 'scene file' as they would appear when compiling, i just find it flows easier than keeping all the scenes in their own files (especially for something i'll be posting to AO3), then when i'm done with a chapter i just go 'file>export' rather than 'compile'. But i've recently given some thought to tackling some original work, so i decided to take a look at the 'novel' template and....yeah. :P

[@ZSDiamanti]

😂 yeah. That’s kind of a different beast for sure. But if you’re already pretty familiar with most of Scrivener’s ways, it shouldn’t be too difficult for you. 🤙

[@12thDecember]

That "epic" background music, though. 😬

[@ZSDiamanti]

Yeah, taken that under advisement for future videos

[@mohamedcherhabil5308]

Sir How did You convert it To Word Doc please

[@laurielyon7740]

I’d have to view this clip several times to benefit from all the information. Certainly useful. As others have suggested, the music is a distraction. And a little less pace on the presentation would be kind of you.

[@ZSDiamanti]

Thank you. I’m keeping that in mind for future videos. 🤙

[@laurielyon7740]

@@ZSDiamantiThanks for your gracious reply. I’m new to Scrivener but using it to write a non-fiction story. I originally wrote the story in Word 10 years ago, and had a whack of research in folders all over hell’s half acre. And so many drafts! My effort was the literary version of Where’s Waldo. I chose not to pursue publishing it then, but now I’ve renewed my efforts, importing everything into Scrivener. Oh boy. Scrivener is the light at the end of the tunnel…….finally. I will spend some more time viewing your excellent clip once I get the manuscript where I want it. Best regards!

[@ZSDiamanti]

@laurielyon7740 That sounds like a pain. So glad you're getting it all sorted. Good luck with the project! 👍

[@ConservativeHippie001]

I am so terrified Scrivener is going to ruin my novel. I do not understand the compiling stuff. Once it compiles can I still go back into the story and make more changes?

[@ZSDiamanti]

Absolutely! Once you compile it into a Word doc, you can still change things in the Word doc or go back and change it in Scrivener and recompile. What I do is write the book in Scrivener, compile it to a word doc, and then upload it to Atticus so I can make it pretty and format it so that it will be a beautiful book when I export it as an EPUB or print version. 😊

[@ConservativeHippie001]

@@ZSDiamanti Thank you

[@ZSDiamanti]

@@ConservativeHippie001 Of course! :)

[@lebatcritique]

Thanks for tackling this subject, but if i may offer some constructive feedback, the music makes the video totally unwatchable for me. Not just in the loud sections. I'd get rid of it altogether.

[@ZSDiamanti]

I will definitely take that for future videos. 😊🤙

[@wendybrusick5505]

Thank you. Background music is distracting.

[@ZSDiamanti]

Will fix that for future videos. 😊 hope it was still helpful

[@Kramrevilo666]

How do I get rid of the # between sections of a scene and chapters?

[@Kramrevilo666]

I may have figured that out, can you tell me how to get the chapters to separate, when I compile they run together

[@ZSDiamanti]

Ah yes. So each chapter has to be in its own folder on the left hand side. Also, did you figure out the scene breaks thing?

[@Kramrevilo666]

Still working on the chapter issue, figured out the scene breaks I think.