Hey all.
I am looking for any templates that you may be using in your work. The few that the software comes with are extremely basic, and aren’t exactly fit for the fantasy genre.
I am fairly new in my writing, and I am looking for a paint-by-numbers approach in the beginning, before venturing out and breaking the mould.
I have made my own Hero’s Journey template, but the book I started plotting doesn’t have a father figure, or mentor type character in it. I was wondering if you may have something related that I could “steal”?
I am actually surprised there aren’t a host of these available considering the popularity of the software.
For the purposes of this post, I’m going to differentiate between a storytelling template and a formatting template.
A formatting template specifies fonts, header formatting, title page layout, line spacing, that sort of thing. Pretty much all of the materials supplied by Scrivener – both project templates and compile formats – fall into that category.
What you’re describing is more like a storytelling template. It lays out key plot points along the main character’s arc, whether that character is a Hero on a Journey or a romantic lead searching for True Love,
Scrivener doesn’t have any of those, but it’s not hard to create one.
*Find an existing storytelling template from any convenient source, in any convenient format. Let’s say you find a Hero’s Journey Word template.
Create a new Scrivener project from whichever formatting template you prefer. Make any formatting changes you like.
Import the existing template into it.
Create appropriate sections in the Draft folder. You can do this by splitting the imported template into chunks (Documents → Split), or just create new folders in the Binder. (If you split the imported template, you might want to duplicate it first – Documents → Duplicate – to preserve the original for reference.)
Use the File → Save As Template command to create a new project template.