#SCRIVENER WINDOWS SAVE LOCATION INSTALL#
#SCRIVENER WINDOWS SAVE LOCATION ANDROID#

You may want to create a subfolder within your Google Drive folder just for your writing groupвЂ™s documents. Follow GoogleвЂ™s prompts to complete setup. You may have to grant the installer permission. In the dialogue window that pops up, click the blue вЂњAccept and InstallвЂќ button.

#SCRIVENER WINDOWS SAVE LOCATION INSTALL#

To install the Google Drive desktop client on your computer, go to the download page and click on the blue вЂњDownloadвЂќ button. The client will automatically upload any files placed in this folder to your account in the cloud. Once installed, you can simply save your files in, or export your files to, the Google Drive folder on your computer. The easiest way to import your files to Google Drive is to install the desktop client. Google Drive is a cloud storage service and web app, but it has a corresponding desktop client as well. In these, you can discuss the craft and business of writing, participate in writing groups, and showcase your work. If youвЂ™re a liberty-loving fiction author or aspiring fiction author, you may be interested in exploring and participating in a set of forums we created just for you. Below IвЂ™ll lay out the steps for doing this, with a focus on the Scrivener for WindowsВ app because it is such a fantastic writing tool and the process involved with it is a little more complex than, say, for MS Word.Д«efore launching into the tutorial, allow me to first plug our community forums.

There will just be more steps involved in exporting and importing your files to and from Google Drive. If you prefer to use a different word processor for your writing, you can still use Google Drive in your writing group to share documents and comment on them. Google Drive and its office suite, Google Docs, are perfect for online writing groups, but writing groups that meet in person can also find them useful. Just share a link, and everyoneвЂ™s comments will appear in your single document. No need to print out multiple copies of your story, exchange them with your group, and then receive multiple marked up copies back a week or more later. No need to email Microsoft Word documents or RTF files back and forth.

All you need to do to use Google Drive in your writing group is share your document with the other members and enable commenting. If you do all of your (early draft) writing in Google Drive anyway, most of what follows may not be all that useful to you. This being Google Drive, the rest of the writing group will be able to see my comments as soon as I save them.

No longer will I have to sit in front of my computer to read (not as pleasant as reading on a tablet) and comment, or read on my tablet only to return to my computer periodically to record my reactions (to the best of my memory), or switch between documents or apps on my tablet (a pain).В Finally, I can open a writing-group partnerвЂ™s chapter on my tablet, sit back and relax and read through it, and insert my reactions as I have them directly in the document -В all without having to be anywhere near my laptop. Why You Should Use Google Docs and Drive in Your Writing Critique Group

#SCRIVENER WINDOWS SAVE LOCATION ANDROID#

But the Android app lacked these features until now. The web app has long had a feature that enables users to create, reply to, and resolve comments in a Google document, much like the commenting system in Microsoft Word. On September 11, 2012, the document editor in Google Docs (now part of Google Drive) finally became useful to me for use in writing groups.

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