14. Creating and Using Project Templates

The first step to getting started in Scrivener is choosing a project template. Unfortunately, this is also the step that causes the most anxiety in new Scrivener users because they don’t want to make the wrong choice. Equally unfortunate is that many of these new Scrivener users don’t have anyone standing over their shoulder or reassuring them from the pages of a book that there is no wrong choice.

Project templates are merely a starting point for a project. They provide a few files and folders to get your project ...

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