If you want to see more you’d have to make them smaller. That means you can only display as many cards as fit on your screen. One caveat though: in the upper cork board here, in the “normal” view, so to speak, Scrivener will always break the line. I believe that’s a very simple but powerful method for working with outlines, no matter how complex they become. Done.Įasily move a Scene Beat from one Scene to the other If you want to move one of the beats to another scene now, all you have to do is grab it and move it over. See Scenes with Beats below at the same timeĪnd here comes the main difference to story outlining with MetaData, if that is a detail that is important to you: Or, I can view the scenes of one of the acts in the upper part and have the lower part show me all the beats in that scenes by selecting them holding Cmd or Ctrl as we did before. Now I can view my story structure in the upper cork board while having the corresponding scenes in the lower part. See Story Outlining Structure with Scenes below at the same time If it doesn’t split horizontally click on the divider button while holding alt and it will split the other way round. Add a second Cork Boardįor this let’s divide the cork board into two. But I’d still like to see the synopsis of those acts so I can get a better feel for the flow of the story. I know that these scenes belong to the first act, those to the second act, and so on. That’s very convenient to see subdocuments from several different parent documents at once next to each other.īut, what’s missing now in my opinion is a visual reference to the parent document. In the lower right corner you can choose if you want to see those rows horizontally with or without line break, or vertically. Scrivener now shows me all the scenes from all the acts I selected at once, divided into rows. Select multiple Files with Subdocuments holding the Cmd-key If one of the documents doesn’t have any documents below it doesn’t work. Be aware that this only works with documents that have sub-documents in the binder. When I select one of the acts I see the scenes that are in that act.īut, for the purpose of story outlining I may want to see scenes from several acts at once, so how do I do that? Show Multiple Subdocuments at onceįor this, select multiple acts while holding the Cmd-key. So when I select my whole draft what I see is the 3-act structure that I just created, because that’s one hierarchy below. Usually what you see in the Scrivener cork board are the files that are below the one you select in the binder.
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But obviously you can use whatever you need for the way you work or your story. The beats are named after their function in the scene, in this case subtext, action and theme. The blue files are my act-structure, the orange ones are my scenes and the green ones are my scene beats.
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For demonstration purposes I’ve chosen the 3-act structure here.
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If you prefer another story structure like the mini movie method, John Truby’s 22 steps, the beat sheet, whatever, use the one that’s most comfortable for you. For any type of work on multiple index card file hierarchy levels at once in fact.
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I created this from a screenwriter’s perspective but you can use the same principle for novel outlining or even blogging as well. With index cards it’s a lot easier to move them around and also maintaining the overview is a little easier due to their color coding with labels.Īlright, I’ve created a Scrivener File for demonstration with a 3-act structure, a couple of scenes one level below and some of the scenes contain a couple of beats. The advantage of Outlining with Index Cards You have to cut the text and paste it into the other document. The disadvantage of using MetaData is that it’s a little cumbersome to move information from one file to another. It is indeed a great method that I also use myself, but today I want to show you another possibility to deal with complex outlines with Scrivener’s Index Cards. If you want to have a look at that the link is down below in the description.
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Let’s see how that works… The disadvantage of Story Outlining with MetaDataĪ while ago I wrote an article how to use Scrivener’s MetaData feature for outlining, to keep track of complex stories. Scrivener’s cork board lets you work on several levels at once, for example for story outlining or other complex documents where you need to stay on top of things.