You have a Cover, a Title Page, Copyright, Dedication and Acknowledgements. Grab one from your shelf if you want and take a look at how it’s been put together. Creating a Novel Project and moving the text gives you a better foundation for building your eBook. The Short Story template just isn’t meant to be Compiled as an eBook.Īs I mentioned above, you could totally modify it and force it to be what you want, but I feel like that’s a lot of work for little reward. Everything you need if you’re planning to submit/query your Short Story out to editors/publishers. Your First Page Header is a Title Sheet that contains your name, address, contact information (pulled from the information you input when you registered the software), project title, by line and word count. There is no ‘Front Matter’, which Scrivener uses to create eBooks. Your Binder contains: First Page Header, Story, Scenes, and then Character and Setting sheets, Research, Templates and Trash. The structure of your typical Short Story looks something like this (Fig 1): If you have a Novel Project already, you can skip down to Part 2 below, or you can stick around and learn about why you should use the Novel Project Template. But I promise you it’ll be quicker to just create a Novel Project and move the text. The Short Story Template doesn’t have the default ‘guts’ necessary to build an eBook. If you used Scrivener’s Short Story Template and want to put that out as an eBook/ePub (Kindle single, whatever), I’m going to suggest that you create a Novel Project specifically for your eBook and move the text over. You have a Project that you’ve completed it could be a Novel or a Short Story. There was a lot of frustration with certain controls, or lack thereof, and I came to realize that those frustrations could be minimized just by setting up the project correctly. When I first starting messing around with creating eBooks using the Compile engine in Scrivener, I looked around the web to see what people were saying about it. In fact, I’d go so far as to say you’ll be angry with the file you export. If you don’t, you aren’t going to be very happy with the file you export. Part 1: Setting up your Scrivener Projectīefore you ever jump into Compile to create your eBook, you have to have your Scrivener Project setup correctly. If you have a Non-Fiction Project, much of this will still apply. For this series of Quick Tips, I’m going to focus on Fiction. This will also keep me from overwhelming you (hopefully) with a massive infodump. Since this is something more in-depth than what I normally cover, I’m going to do so in multiple parts over the next few weeks. But if you spend a little time playing with the settings, your eBook will benefit and your readers will appreciate the effort as they receive something on par with what publishers are producing. Personally, I find Scrivener’s eBook and ePub Compile to be quite useful, but you have to dig into the settings to truly pull out a quality eBook. I’ve had some people asking about creating eBooks using Scrivener. I am currently unemployed and appreciate any tips sent my way. If you find this or any other posts on this blog to be useful or entertaining, consider donating to help keep it, and me, afloat. As always, clicking on a screenshot will open it up for a larger view. If you are using the Windows version of Scrivener, not all of these features are available to you at this time, and the screen shots might look different. My Scrivener Quick Tips are a weekly series (usually) and take a look at features from the Mac version of Scrivener, v 2.3.1.
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