Researching a town that doesn’t exist is more challenging that you may think. Only a few bare squares spots where buildings sat remain as the trees, blackberries, river, and swamp has returned to the land, possibly resembling the place my ancestors arrived at in the turn of the century. I’m researching Taylor Rapids, Wisconsin, a place that went from hundreds and hundreds of people supporting numerous logging camps throughout northern Wisconsin, to not even a ghost town. The first thing we are going to add to the blank test project we created in the previous tutorial is a web page. Scrivener treats the Research section differently from the Draft and writing areas. The Research feature is found in the binder and it is a holder of a variety of document and file types. Please note that the process of saving web pages to Scrivener may have changed. The following is a 3 minute video that takes you through the process of adding files and web pages to Scrivener. Scrivener will help me not only learn it, but use it in my writing. As the logging industry abandoned them, the automobile gave them the freedom to escape that world. My family was still living in the cultural, social, and economic world of the pre-industrial age, and the first person to buy a car in the family changed their life forever. It was the heyday of the Industrial Revolution. It was a time of two world wars, the stock market crash, the Depression Era, disease run rampant, the end of the Indian Wars and reconciliation after the US Civil War, and a time of extensive migration as our world and economy changed from horse and wagon to motorized vehicle and embraced electricity. This was an important time period in the United States as well as the world. Let’s explore the Research section.Ĭontinuing with the example of my project to compile, edit, and publish the collection of stories from my ancestor’s childhood in Taylor Rapids, Wisconsin, I need to do research on logging in Northern Wisconsin, find maps of the area, and other historical reference material to put me into the mind set of my family between 19. We’ve covered the very basics of creating folders and text files in the Draft section. In the most basic installation of Scrivener using a blank template project, you will have two key sections: Draft and Research. Inside of it you will have the draft of the manuscript, your research notes, files, photographs, maps, whatever you need to help you write. Think of it as the binder or file cabinet for your entire writing project(s). Remember, in Scrivener, don’t think of what is in it as a single document like you would with MS Word. Compared to Microsoft Office, this is seriously inexpensive and a very powerful writing and editing tool.Īlong the left side of Scrivener’s interface is the Binder, your index listing all of the documents, files, notes, writings, etc., within your Scrivener project. In the next in this series, I’ll show you how to use your research with the Split Screen Feature of Scrivener.Īs a reminder, Scrivener by Literature and Latte is available as a free trial version and is a deal at the current sale price of USD $40 for Windows and Mac. Continuing with this Scrivener tutorial series, we are going to work on the blank Scrivener project you created in the previous tutorial, and in this tutorial, I want to share with you tips for using the Research section of the Binder and introduce you to the Inspector. In this ongoing series on Scrivener, the powerful writing software tool, so far I’ve given you a basic overview introduction, including a collection of two Scrivener bootcamp videos to help you get started and see the possibilities in the writing program, and talked about the organizational benefits of Scrivener.
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