Hello everyone,
I am relatively new to Scrivener (A colleague introduced me to it this summer). I have a question that is probably common, but perhaps is most common to people in the humanities and social sciences who simultaneously work on relatively short articles and working papers that derive from a large academic book project.
I apologize in advance for the length of this question. I have looked in the manual, but am not finding the answer to my question. Please feel free to direct me to the relevant chapters of the manual if my answer is contained there (I bet it is.), or to forum posts, videos, etc.
I have been working on a Book Project (the New Project), and have created perhaps 400 files, contained in about 100 folders. These are distributed among five chapters of my prospective long academic book on aspects of European history.
The book is still in the earlier, unpolished stages. Like many people, I like to write conference papers in part as a way of making progress with the writing of the book.
I will be giving several conference papers over the coming six months. These papers will be drawn from different parts of the book. For example, for one paper, Iāll want to borrow certain bits from my Introduction, a few pieces contained in Chapter One, a few others in Chapter Four, etc. This is true for three conference papers, which will overlap in minor ways, but will largely treat very different aspects of my research.
I would, therefore, like to ācompileā conference papers, made up of perhaps 40 files scattered throughout my book project, so I can write and edit these papers.
There is an important caveat: Because I am in an early stage of the book writing, I would like any edits that I make in the files as I put together the conference papers to also be made in the Book Project. In other words, as I write the conference papers, Iād like the improvements I make in my prose, the refining of my points, etc, to be reflected in the Book Project files. I want to edit the larger book project and the conference papers simultaneously. As I produce and edit the papers, the work I do would do double duty by improving the quality of my Book Project files.
I assume there is a way to create what might be called āworking papersā within larger drafts, and to be able to save those working papers, while having the edits to files I use for the working papers also be reflected in the larger book project.
I hope Iāve been clear, but Iām happy to clarify.
Many thanks in advance,
James