Learn Scrivener – Joseph Michael

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How you can get Scrivener to do exactly what you want and accelerate your writing career in less than 1 week

Finally…get the secret weapon every successful writer uses to publish their books, finish their novels, and have their work seen by hundreds…even millions of people…every single day

St. Louis, MO 3 years ago… 

So I was trying to get a job as a pizza delivery guy.

I had a stable job. I was supporting my family. But I felt like something was missing.

Not only did I loathe my job, but we had another kid on the way. So even with a professional background, a professional degree, and a professional job, I figured I’d start delivering pizza so I could make some extra dough on the side. (Logical, right?)

And little did I know, trying to get a job delivering pizza was one of the hardest things I ever had to do!

Why Was This So Hard?

I kept getting rejection after rejection–yes, from pizza delivery places!–because I didn’t have what it took to “deliver pizzas”. Seriously?!

You can imagine how this felt. Was I really not good enough to even deliver one lousy pizza?

Bruised ego aside, I still held on to my dream of making a little more money so that I could enjoy spending more time with my family, supporting them, and actually doing work that I enjoyed.

So because pizza places were throwing my resume out the window, this was the exact point in my life I started blogging and selling products and services online. And I happened to get introduced to one of the most raved about writing softwares on the ‘net…

Scrivener

Now, I’m a tech-geek kind of guy. So even though I had heard that Scrivener wasn’t all the peaches and roses it was supposed to be, I knew I could overcome the ‘steep learning curve’ and “mind boggling” issues I’d heard so many people dealing with.

It couldn’t be that hard, right?

I Had Never Been More Wrong In My Life

Can you imagine this?

I get Scrivener.

I open it up.

And I immediately slap my palm against my forehead.

What Was This Alien Force That Hijacked My Will to Write and Left Me Feeling Like I Might As Well Quit While I’m Ahead?

I went from a self-proclaimed ‘tech guy’ to feeling dumb, frustrated, and even ‘crazy’ because I couldn’t for the life of me figure out how this darn thing worked. I was drowning in all of the ebooks I was writing, blog posts for the other 2 websites I run, and I just couldn’t wrap my head around it.

How could a tool that’s supposed to help you write more…make you feel like you’re not getting any writing done at all?

• I couldn’t figure out how to import any of my writing from Microsoft Word to Scrivener…
• I couldn’t figure out how to get all of my research notes in Evernote over to Scrivener…
• I couldn’t figure out how to even revise any of my work! I would lose all of my old versions when I needed them the most…

So With Deadlines Hanging Over Me… Blogs to be scheduled… Drafts to be revised… And books to be published…

What Did I Do?

How did I solve the mind boggling Scrivener problem? 

I put my nose down and invested all of my energy into figuring the thing out. All those thousands of hours I could have been writing I spent on reading every Scrivener book,

…watching every tutorial,

…reading every comment,

…in every forum,

to see if I could find people like me…people who understood what I was going through!

Now, I know what you may be thinking: “Did this guy seriously waste his life trying to figure out a piece of writing software?”

I’m sure you’ve felt like this before, but when you’re deep in the process of something, you feel like you’ll never get out of it. And I did think of all the other things I could have been doing with my time instead of trying to master Scrivener…which I did end up eventually doing.

But Instead…

I Stumbled Across Something That Would Change The Course Of My Life Forever…

One day, I was reading one of Michael Hyatt’s blog posts about why he uses Scrivener for all of his work. When you start reading about people like him using it, you begin to see why they can make a living from writing.

So I was reading through all of the comments from Hyatt’s post for my daily Scrivener research, and I saw that Michael said something that would change the course of my life.

In one of the comments he said something to a reader who was getting really frustrated with Scrivener (no surprise there). And what he said hit me like a ton of bricks.

He said: If there was a course on Scrivener, I would buy it TODAY!

It was then that I had an epiphany. All of my hard work, all of those hundreds of hours I devoted to figuring Scrivener out, all of it was for you.

I Created ‘Learn Scrivener Fast’ to Make Sure You Never, Ever Struggle with Scrivener Again.

Ever!

I don’t think it’s any secret that if you’re an author, a freelance writer, a copywriter, a professional blogger, a marketer, or even a lawyer, your livelihood depends on your writing.

And if you’re not writing, you won’t be making any money on the half-finished novels and sales pages sitting on your virtual shelf of Scrivener.

See, it’s not like there are other amazing writing softwares out there. If there was a better program, you would use it!

And the Question No One Wants to Face: What Work of Yours is Unfinished Because Scrivener Got in the Way?

But the options are bleak and gloomy indeed. You have:

• Microsoft Word: Where your work gets off to a great start, but ultimately goes to die because your chapters, comments, and edits are all over the place
• Google docs: Still not the best for the epic, long-form writing you have to do. Everything is still sitting (or lost) on your computer. Especially your research.
• A piece meal of all the other writing softwares. One of them does that one thing you need…but is missing all of the other features you want. So your work is all over the place, and soon you’re copy and pasting your last travel article into chapter six of your fantasy novel.

And when that important writing isn’t getting done, it’s hard to say that you’re even a ‘writer’. A writer’s worst fear is that the work they poured their heart into will never see the light of day…all the while you ache for just one sentence of it to be read by just one person!

But If You’re Stuck With Scrivener, The Only Way to Get on Top–and Stay On Top–of Your Writing Career Is to Stop Feeling Tortured and Start to Love The Program Like You Want To

Easier said than done, right?

Well, maybe not.

Because I started to see just how many problems and frustrations people had with Scrivener, I began to see what I could do to help them. With my background in teaching other people to learn complex things quickly and easily, it became a no-brainer to create a course that helped people literally master Scrivener in as little as a week.

But Before I Get Into That, I Have to Address The Elephant In The Room

Perhaps what’s worse than your work not getting finished is having a gnawing feeling that you’re not tapping into the hidden powers and benefits of Scrivener. Hidden powers and benefits that could shave 5 years off your learning curve, and explode your writing career.

It may not make sense, but in exchange for a few minutes of your time, I’m going to explain why this could make or break your career in writing.

The fact that Scrivener has hidden powers and benefits means that it literally has ‘secrets’. And that gnawing feeling that you have is correct. There are secrets of Scrivener that you simply don’t know.

And the reason why you can’t find the answers to how to finally import your files the right way, how to add a cover image to your ebook, or even how to use the split-screen feature without messing up your writing is because no one else really knows how to do it with Scrivener, either.

Why?

Because they have other careers, jobs, and responsibilities taking up their time.

But Not Me.

If you think about it, how could you expect yourself to labor over Scrivener for years and learn how to master it like I did? You need that precious time to write.

So it’s my responsibility to understand every nook and cranny of Scrivener no matter how late I stay up, no matter how many precious moments I miss with my wife and kids. But if you know what it’s like to be so devoted to something, you know you’ll do anything to get what you want.

So Scrivener became — and is — my new career. I went through all the frustrations, anxieties, and fears for you.

But Feeling Like “Everyone Else Knows Something You Don’t”… is What’s Chipping Away at Your Writing Career.

This is unsettling news. But wouldn’t you agree that feeling frustrated, overwhelmed, and even ‘dumb’ for not knowing how to use writing software is dramatically affecting just how much writing you are getting done?

When’s the last time you looked at your plot outline for your novel and thought…I’m just not excited to do this. Everything is all over the place, and I don’t know how to keep it organized and in one place. (Who is my main character again?)

When’s the last time you looked at your calendar and felt your heart sink like a stone because your deadline is looming, but you can’t figure out how to edit your half-finished articles without losing your revisions? And because you don’t know…they’re not getting done?

All the while, you know that in order to be (or continue to be) a successful writer you need to keep writing…

But how can you do that when you can’t wrap your head around how to get your important research from Evernote over to Scrivener or figure out how you can use the Inspector tool and not feel like you just deleted all of your work?

Even if you’ve read the 500-page eBooks, watched the YouTube tutorials with low-quality sound, and tutorials with blurry screenshots, you’re still sitting there, feeling that tightness in your chest, that you’ll never finish the outline for your cookbook, that last chapter of your novel, that memorandum for your case, or reach that deadline.

It’s crushing. And that’s not how successful writers are made, either.

But what else is standing in the way?

Are These ‘Scrivener Frustrations’ Eating Away At You, Too?

This is what real people and users of Scrivener are saying behind closed doors…

• “I’m not sure if it’s something I’m doing wrong…but this is just frustrating!”
• “I was excited about using Scrivener, but it was so difficult and I got so frustrated that I gave up on it for months.”
• “I hate it! I hate Scrivener”
• “I can’t help but keep losing heart as I drag myself around unwieldy sets of Word docs because I can’t figure out how to use Scrivener”
• “I hate to admit this…but nothing is making sense to me. Am I dumb?”

Wow. For a writing tool that’s raved about in every writing community there is, this seems to be where the truth is really being told. The worst part is, so many of these people’s frustrations went unanswered for years! This is what pure torture feels like.

But this is exactly the reason why I had to create Learn Scrivener Fast. I’m a teacher at heart, and there was no way I could let anyone else feel this way about using Scrivener.

Scrivener Is Not Out to Hurt You. When You Know How to Use It Right…It’s Your Secret Weapon.

So we know that Scrivener is a little bit complicated. But why?

I’ve thought about this for a long time, and I could only come up with 1 real, logical answer.

It’s for Serious Writers Only!

Anyone can write in Microsoft Word, throw something together in Google Docs, whip up something quick in IA writer…

But Scrivener writers…they’re the masters.

Scrivener is the secret weapon people like Joanna Penn, Michael Hyatt, Jeff Goins, and even myself! use to write books, blogs, speeches, novels, and even create courses with.

It’s for serious writers like you because it’s your undying dream, your only purpose in this life…to write! It doesn’t matter if you’re writing copy, a series of blog posts, or your next epic fantasy novel. You are a writer.

And What Do Writers Who Use Scrivener Do?

They wake up in the morning with a feeling of sheer delight. They open Scrivener. And they feel like there’s a world of possibilities in front of them. And instead of feeling like they’re about to trudge through mud up a mountain…they write. And write. And write. Just like they feel they’re supposed to.

But how did they get there? And how can you feel ‘delighted’ to wake up in the morning, open Scrivener, and write, too?

And What Would It Mean If Every Problem You Had With Scrivener Could Be Solved in 3 Minutes or Less?

How many more pages would you write per day? Maybe just 1? Maybe 10 ?

How many more books would you finish a year? Maybe a series? Maybe finish the one you’re working on now?

How many more blog posts would be up and scheduled so that you wouldn’t have to worry about creating content for 1 month..or even 3 months?

How many more articles would you get published? 3? 5? If it only takes you a couple of hours to write one up, 1 day of free time could pump out maybe 4-6 new articles!

Not to mention the peace of mind you would have, knowing that you’re finally doing what you wanted and needed to be doing all along: writing.

So Is it Possible to Sustain a Lucrative Writing Career in Your Pajamas?

With Learn Scrivener Fast, it is.

And while we’re on the topic, here’s what you will instantly know how to do with Learn Scrivener Fast:

What Is Learn Scrivener Fast?

LSF is a 100% digital, step-by-step video course and ‘must-have’ tool for serious writers. You can use it whenever you need an answer to your most burning problem, and have it solved in less than 3 minutes!

It’s like having a Scrivener coach–someone like me!–sitting right next to you at your favorite writing spot, showing you exactly what to do to solve every issue and every frustration you’ve ever come across.

How Is The Course Delivered?

In 12 Easy-To-Follow Step-By-Step Modules Beautifully Organized Into 5 Unique Sections

(just take a peek below)

SECTION #1: STEP BY STEP BASICS

SETTING UP SCRIVENER FOR YOUR SUCCESS

• How to get set-up with Scrivener in as little as an hour, whether you’re a Mac or Windows user, and virtually guarantee your success with using it
• How to navigate that complicated Scrivener window so you know what you need to use, and when you need to use it (and forget about what you don’t so you don’t waste time)
• How to customize your toolbar and turn yourself into a writing machine…whether you have a million ideas, or just 1.
• How to make “The Binder” bend to your will and organize all of your writing in one place–perfect for anyone who’s a self-proclaimed ‘visual learner’.
• Corkboard Mastery in just 4 minutes: How to turn your corkboard into your own ‘writing lab’ and never lose track of anything, forget your notes, or even your progress ever again.
• How to use the Collections feature so you always know what you need to do and what to focus on. Warning: Your projects will get done faster than you can blink.
• How to use the outliner to organize massive projects, complete them, and feel completely in control of your writing process.
• How to use your Project Notes so you can literally find your ideas ‘on-demand’ without having to stop writing and search all over the place for your notes.
• How to master the art of the rewrite and save every single version of your work, so you never worry about losing your ‘writing gold’ again.
• The simple, little known secret that will shave off weeks of time editing your writing. Hint: Just one click can help you replace the name of a character or the name of the place without having to do it manually throughout your entire piece!
• How you can print, compile, share, and export your work with anyone so no one misses out on reading your work

SECTION #2: NINJA TIPS AND TRICKS

YOUR ALL-IN-ONE SOLUTION FOR ULTIMATE CREATIVITY AND PRODUCTIVITY

• How to customize your background, your corkboard, and your index cards so it matches your writing style and how you like to work (perfect for anyone who likes to do things ‘their way;)
• A subtle trick you can use to add spaces
• How you can go back to multiple versions of your work and continue to improve it without losing any of your comments or your editor’s notes
• The ‘right way’ to seamlessly import large projects and separate chapters
• The amazing tool that helps you find what you’re looking for in Scrivener in less than 60 seconds
• How to track your progress with stats and even word counts to keep you efficient and prolific. You will be amazed by how much faster you can write, and you won’t be able to stop hitting your word or page goals!
• How to double your learning power by using the feature that helps you find synonyms and definitions exactly when you need them
• How to eliminate all of your distractions during precious writing time by using the ‘Multiple Composition Mode’
• How you can access the Scratchpad and send to any folder on the fly, even while you’re watching your favorite YouTube video or doing research for your next book or batch of articles
• How to use the Split Editor and feel like a true artist…you’ll be shocked how much better your writing can be with just this tool
• How to use Scrivener to create the ‘perfect’ writing environment so you have the focus of an Olympian
• How to use presets so you don’t have to reinvent the wheel and can be hyper-productive every time you sit down to write
• How to keep the comments and notes that could make or break your project in one place, so you never forget to look at them
• How to use Inspector to refer to your links, notes, and images whenever you need to
• How to test and “guarantee” your writing is great before it ever sees the light of day
• How to create systems that will do those little, annoying tasks ‘automagically’ for you, so you can write even more
• How to print your work for your editor–or even yourself–and impress the pants off of people

SECTION #3: WORK SMARTER

THE NO-EXCUSES ZONE…PLUS, ANY PROBLEM YOU’VE EVER HAD USING EVERNOTE AND SCRIVENER FINALLY SOLVED.

• How to move all of your research in Evernote to Scrivener in a cinch
• How to use Evernote and Scrivener to create your own research style that complements your unique way of working
• How to transfer and export notes from Evernote to Scrivener as easily as tying your shoes
• Simple solutions for people with ‘too many notes’ and the most desirable ways to view and use your research
• How you can work from your Scrivener project from anywhere without Scrivener and never lose your work. This is the ultimate freedom for any writer that lives on their own terms.
• BONUS: Expert interview with one of the smartest guys using Evernote today, Brett Kelly. You’ll get a peek inside his head and learn:
  • Why the creator of the most popular ebook on Evernote desperately wished I had taken his money years ago. (Hint: He wished he knew how to use Scrivener)
  • The secret of Snapshots and how to use them when you’re working with an editor who wants to keep using Word
  • The secrets of being a creative, prolific author and writing your best every day (And it isn’t what you think. But it does have something to do with using Scrivener the right way!)
  • And his very own “procrastination remedy” that virtually guarantees his writing will get done (and how yours can be guaranteed to ‘get done’, too!)

SECTION #4: SCRIVENER FOR BLOGGING

HOW TO RUN A TIGHT BLOG-SHIP WITH A FEW SIMPLE TRICKS

• How to brainstorm ideas, plan your blog posts, and keep track of everything you write
• How to write and teach what you love
• The secret of how to know what to write–and when to write it–and connect with the right people
• How to turn yourself into a ‘finisher’ instead of a ‘procrastinator’ and make blogging fun and exciting
• How to keep all of your posts organized and in one place so your best stuff gets read by your audience day in and day out
• 2 ways to get your blog posts into WordPress and schedule them
• The hands-down easiest way to use Markdown without feeling intimidated, and how to use it for guest posts, too!
• Specially curated Markdown resources, apps, and downloads for you from Squarespace to IA Writer

SECTION #5: EASY EBOOKS

DYING TO WRITE AND PUBLISH YOUR EBOOK? FOLLOW THIS SYSTEM AND YOU WILL NOT FAIL.

• The right templates to use for working on a novel, a non-fiction book, or a short story collection. Choosing the right one is crucial for the success of your work.
• How to move or transfer your project to the right template even if you chose the wrong template before or even if it’s in a Word doc
• How to set-up the right front and back pages, so your eBook is in the perfect condition for publishing. (So many people miss or don’t know how to do this–the video in this module shows you how to do it in less than 3 minutes!)
• How to customize your table of contents, your book cover, and make it look any way you want so your book stands out and sells
• Exactly how to add a cover image to your ebook or PDF. Finally!
• How to compile your book for Kindle, Nook, Kobo, iBookstore, .ePub, and even Smashwords so you get it right the first time and you can spread your book (and your unique message) in every way you can possibly imagine

Why Do You Need ‘Learn Scrivener Fast’ Right Now?

Instead of later tonight…tomorrow…or a week from now.

Well, I’ll ask you.

What success stories have you heard from writers who said they got to where they are by ‘messing around with Scrivener all day’?

The truth is that the writers you admire the most spend most of their time writing. They know how to use Scrivener, and they know how to make it work for whatever kind of writing they’re doing, for whatever kind of writing style they have.

Their work is seen by hundreds and thousands of people every day. And they’ve all said that they wouldn’t have been able to do it if they didn’t know how to use Scrivener in a way that worked just for them. It’s just too much to stomach organizing all of your writing across all the programs you have on your computer. And it’s too stressful to imagine that you can’t even get the next sentence done until you figure that “one” problem out.

In fact, I call this “Getting Things UN-Done Syndrome”, where people think: “I can’t finish this, until I figure out how to do THAT.”

But with Learn Scrivener Fast, you can dip into the course whenever you want to find the solution to the problem you’re having in that very moment. It’s not a course that you need to dedicate 5-10 hours a week to. In fact, this course dedicates time to you!

• When you need to figure out how to use your corkboard for mapping out your story, I can show you how to do that in a short video in Module #1.
• When you need to finally tackle those hairy Evernote and Scrivener problems…there are 3 minute videos ready–and dying!–to solve the problem for you.
• And when you need a template for your next blog post or sales letter…it’s all there, done for you, so all you have to do