How to Use Scrivener (2024) | *Simple* Tutorial for Overwhelmed Fiction Writers

Oh wow — overwhelmed by all of the people this has helped! Make sure to grab my free Cheat Sheet: www.laurenkaywrites.com/scrivener with all of these tips so that you have that handy whenever you need it! I also created a blog post that covers everything I go over in this video to make the information more accessible; you can view that here: www.laurenkaywrites.com/blog/how-to-use-scrivener-… . Happy writing and scrivening, friends!

Thank you so much for not assuming that we know where to begin.

I've had this program for years and didn't know it had a built in name generator! Thank you!

this totally revolutionized scrivener for me! i've tried it twice over the last few years and never got into it but this is amazing. thank you!

I am fairly familiar with Scrivener, but I really appreciate your practical take on how to use it. Thank you.

This was extremely helpful and the first tutorial that I feel helped me to actually set up scrivener for writing versus a template that confuses me later on.

I've been using Scrivener for about five or six years now, but there's always something to learn from how someone else uses it. I might have to steal that concept of color coding the perspective character. Sounds useful for finding specific scenes later when I want to make sure details match up. I never export for print. Instead, I export as .docx for a final read through and print from there. The habit dates back to a much older version where the print formatting was a bit off, but I've made use of the process, so I still do it.

thank you so much for this. You really helped me out. I've been using Scrivener for a while but you taught me so much and made a lot of things easier for me.

Hi Launren thank you for the informative tutorial. Loved the fact that you are helping others get their stories out into the world :)

Very helpful! Finally going to try it out, thank you!

This was so helpful!! Thank you for making awesome content! 😄

Thank you so much for this comprehensive video! It helped me so much!

It was quite interesting to watch this video. I came here because even though I have used Scrivener version 3.x for quite a long time, I have not used it often in the last two years and I wanted to see a how-to of Scrivener basics as a refresher. This means I'm quite the amateur writer (smile.) I think you present really well in this video. The videography is excellent. I wish you had organized this video into discrete sections, so I can go straight to the sections I think are useful to me. Also, I'm deaf (I can't hear) so I use the automatic closed caption feature of YouTube for a transcription of what you are saying. You move a little quickly with screen shots as you discuss features. I have to watch the caption text to get your commentary and then turn my attention to the screen shot you are showing. It is a little hard for me to do, but that is just me. I can replay the video. Scrivener does automatically save your work: it does this every 2 seconds by default. I've never lost a Scrivener project and I have bunches of them, including a couple of recent projects I've begun working on. A little research into how Scrivener automatically saves your work helps. Literature & Latte, the vendor, has a blog entry on saving Scrivener projects that is well worth reading. Thank you for this video.

That was a big help. Thanks!

THANK YOU... This was awesome! You are a tutorial master.

Thank you for providing such valuable and informative content for someone like me who is new to this.

Excellent job. Thank you!

This is brilliant, thank you!! I'm trying to figure out if I should buy a licence. I'm sold! Thank you. Some great tips here.

I have been using Scrivener for years and this was incredibly helpful. thank you!!

Thank you so much for this video! The biggest draw back to this software was the learning curve. You really saved me hours. Thank you!