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Writing a Novel with Scrivener Kindle Edition
David Hewson (Author) Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author |
Hewson, a Scrivener user for years who's written five of his popular novels in the app, takes users through the basic processes of structuring a full-length novel, writing and developing the story, then delivering it either as a manuscript for an agent or publisher or as an ebook direct to Kindle or iBook.
Alongside the practical advice, he offers a working novelist's insight into the process of writing popular fiction. And this book is, of course, created entirely within Scrivener itself, from development through to publication on Kindle, a process followed in detail in the book. Please read the reviews to see what users think of this unique book, produced entirely from within Scrivener itself.
PRAISE FOR DAVID HEWSON'S NOVELS
The Fallen Angel, book nine in the Costa series
The Washington Post says, ‘…perhaps his finest novel. It’s hard to see how the author could have made his dark tale more fascinating, entertaining and yet entirely serious than he has.’
The New York Times, ‘Mr. Hewson’s crime novel, the ninth in a series, is like a satisfying “Law & Order” episode set in modern-day Rome… the ending is the rich tiramisu we’ve waited for.’
Bookreporter, ‘I cannot imagine anyone picking up a book authored by David Hewson and not falling in love with the subject matter within the first 50 pages or so. The Fallen Angel, his latest and arguably best work, continues the practice while upping his own ante by a notch or three.’
Jeffery Deaver...
Hewson is a daunting talent — a writer who is a master stylist.
Steve Berry...
David Hewson is one of the finest thriller writers working today. A born stylist.
Lee Child...
(Dante's Numbers)...is easily the best yet in a really terrific series.
Peter James...
Hewson is one of our finest crime writers. Absorbing, intelligent, and with a staggeringly vivid sense of place.
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication date28 July 2011
- File size2211 KB
Product details
- ASIN : B004ZG7BMU
- Publisher : David Hewson; 3rd edition (28 July 2011)
- Language : English
- File size : 2211 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Not Enabled
- Print length : 128 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: 387,888 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
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About the author

David Hewson's novels have been translated into a wide range of languages, from Italian to Japanese, and his debut work, Semana Santa, set in Holy Week Spain, was filmed with Mira Sorvino. Dante's Numbers is his thirteenth published novel.
David was born in Yorkshire in 1953 and left school at the age of seventeen to work as a cub reporter on one of the smallest evening newspapers in the country in Scarborough. Eight years later he was a staff reporter on The Times in London, covering news, business and latterly working as arts correspondent. He worked on the launch of the Independent and was a weekly columnist for the Sunday Times for a decade before giving up journalism entirely in 2005 to focus on writing fiction.
Semana Santa won the WH Smith Fresh Talent award for one of the best debut novels of the year in 1996 and was later made into a movie starring Mira Sorvino and Olivier Martinez. Four standalone works followed before A Season for the Dead, the first in a series set in Italy. There are now nine Costa titles published in numerous languages around the world including Chinese and Japanese... and Italian.
David followed these books with three acclaimed adaptations of the award-winning Copenhagen TV crime series The Killing. In 2014 he debuted a new series set in Amsterdam with The House of Dolls. With A.J. Hartley he has also authored two popular adaptations of Shakespeare's Macbeth and Hamlet, originally for audio now out in ebook. In 2018 he won the prized Audie for best original audio work for Romeo and Juliet: A Novel, narrated by Richard Armitage, an Audible exclusive.
In 2018 he published a much-anticipated tenth book in the Nic Costa series, The Savage Shore. In 2019 he released Devil's Fjord, a standalone mystery set in the Faroe Islands.
2020 sees the release of Shooter in the Shadows, a standalone thriller set on a remote private island in Venice.
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I’ve read a number of guides to using Scrivener, and this one just didn’t cut the mustard for me. While the personal insights from the author on how he uses Scrivener were interesting, the guide itself was less than helpful at times. Trying to read it alongside the programme itself, I found points where the given information e.g.” …the button at the bottom of the screen” either didn’t correlate to the view I had, or weren’t clear enough (which button?). The images too were less than helpful; virtually impossible to read on a Kindle, still not clear on a tablet, and viewing them on my laptop resulted in a tiresome amount of switching tabs.
On some positive notes: Although I use Windows, this didn’t cause a problem with understanding the guide, and I did enjoy reading which of Scrivener’s capabilities this established author finds useful, and which he chooses to disregard.
Overall, this was an interesting insight to how one author works with Scrivener, but in terms of explaining the way Scrivener can be used to write a novel, this is not a book that worked for me. I consider myself a complete novice as far as Scrivener is concerned, and a compulsive outliner when it comes to writing, and I honestly don’t feel this guide met those needs.


This book showed me how, it helped me separate `cool' and `useful for my project' out of the many features offered. I particularly liked the added scrivener template to look at and get you started.
I only criticism would be that this is an adapted book from the mac version of the software which has been out far longer. There are some sections where you read about a feature that would be great for your project and then find "not currently available on Windows". Still, it is early days for scrivener, maybe these features will be added at a later day
This book is worth a read to get you on track with your writing rather than feature exploration

As a Scrivener ‘newbie’, I get the impression that this package is very similar to Photoshop. There are a lot of functions and you can certainly do a lot with it. But do you really need to know everything? David Hewson tells you what you need to know if you are trying to write a novel or a non-fiction book, and when he thinks that something could be achieved more easily by other means - perhaps by playing around with the Word document you have just produced. I really, really liked this approach - instead of learning dry facts about the various functions available, I understood the examples that the author offered. Confused about ‘Labels’ and ‘Keywords’? After reading Hewson’s relevant chapters, I labelled all my chapters by Point of View, and tagged them with keywords so that I can easily create collections based on what secondary characters appear in my story. In other words, if you think like a writer, and not like a software developer, this is the book for you.
I will admit that I got a little bit stuck at the ‘Compile’ section, but apparently that is the hardest function in the package to grasp. I am still working on this and it might take me a little while to really understand how it all works. But this book gave me the tools to get started without wasting too much time, so that I can focus on what I actually want to do: write.

I first came across the application through listening to David talk about it and I downloaded the earlier version. I did try to use it but struggled with working out its potential. Now with the latest version of Scrivener and this indispensable guide, it is starting to transform the way I manage my writing.
David Hewson's guide is clear, concise and well written. He has helpfully extracted the most useful aspects of the application and gives comprehensible instructions and tips on how to use them. Initially I read the guide through and now I am going back selecting relevant sections as I incorporate the features of the application into my work. I feel much more confident using it with David's guide on hand to refer to.
As well as the guidance on using Scrivener, David Hewson weaves tips and advice about the writing process in general into the more practical instructions, giving a fascinating insight into the methods that he uses in his own successful writing. I would highly recommend this invaluable guide to writers of all kinds.