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Kirk McElhearn

Stratford-upon-Avon

Senior Contributor at Macworld

Freelance Writer at Freelance

Co-Host at The Next Track

Writer, podcaster, photographer, lazy zennist, cat whisperer. Lapsed New Yorker in Shakespeare's home town. Host of Write Now with Scrivener podcast.

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  • 1 week ago | literatureandlatte.com | Kirk McElhearn

    Scrivener stands out as a tool for managing long-form writing projects, and you can add images to your texts in several ways. These techniques are especially useful if you generate ebook files from your Scrivener projects. In a previous article, we discussed the basics of using images in your Scrivener projects.

  • 1 week ago | literatureandlatte.com | Kirk McElhearn

    While Scrivener is designed to be a powerful tool for working with text, you can an also use images in your Scrivener projects, and to modify Scrivener’s environment. rnRound and flat characters appear everywhere in fiction. Both serve their purpose in books, film and TV and they both have the ability to become beloved, memorable characters. If you want to develop your writing and storytelling skills, it’s a good idea to know exactly what round vs. flat characters are and how to write your own.

  • 2 weeks ago | literatureandlatte.com | Kirk McElhearn

    While Scrivener is designed to be a powerful tool for working with text, you can an also use images in your Scrivener projects, and to modify Scrivener’s environment. While Scrivener’s main features revolve around planning, writing, and revising long-form writing projects, the app also allows you to use images in your projects.

  • 3 weeks ago | literatureandlatte.com | Kirk McElhearn

    Lisa Yee is a prolific author of books for children and young adults. Her latest series is The Misfits. Show notes:Lisa YeeThe MisfitsMiranda July: On All FoursLearn more about Scrivener, and check out the ebook Take Control of Scrivener. If you like the podcast, please follow it on Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app. Leave a rating or review, and tell your friends. And check out past episodes of Write Now with Scrivener. Some writers are night owls. I connected with Lisa Yee at midnight.

  • 1 month ago | literatureandlatte.com | Kirk McElhearn

    Scrivener has many settings you can tweak to make the app work the way you want, and many that change its appearance in subtle ways. When working on a long-form writing project in Scrivener, you spend hundreds of hours in the app. It’s best to work with an interface as comfortable as possible. Scrivener offers many options. You can use themes to alter the overall appearance of the app, or you can hide many of Scrivener’s interface elements to create a distraction-free writing environment.

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