scrivener 3 how to go back to early revision

I immediately had all my chapters in folders! Import other potentially usable content. My publisher provided me with a Word file of the first edition. I decided that the easiest way to keep track of all the pieces in this project (and there were many) was to use Scrivener. Step 2: Import my old manuscript into Scrivener. I used this as my guide as I moved into making the revisions. I gave this to my publisher (but you can use it for yourself if you self-publish). I then created a brief synopsis of each item on that list. I created a detailed list of the new content that should be added to the book the areas that needed updating or expanding.

Step 1: Determine what new or updated content would benefit the book. Since some of you might one day need to revise your blogged book, I thought I’d share with you the process I used. It now contained all the pieces I felt the first edition was missing. When I had finished the revision, I was pleased to discover I was prouder of the book than I when I completed the manuscript back in 2010. There were things I knew it needed, and I was thrilled to have the chance to do so. On the other hand, it was fun and fulfilling to see a good book become better. The revision required rereading again (at least a few times) before submitting the manuscript, and then several times during the editing process. After all, I was working with content I knew inside and out and a manuscript I’d read more times than cared to remember. Not only that, I found revising a book not as exciting or interesting as writing it the first time around. In others, it was complicated it required handling a lot of old and new parts that need to be merged. I thought the revision process would be pretty simple. In response, I got a new contract–for the same book. The publisher had asked me to submit a list of changes I could make to update, revise, and expand the book, and I had done so. Lots of successful nonfiction books need to have a “refresh” every few years. This one asked me to revise the current–soon to be previous–edition of How to Blog a Book. Last year I received a new kind of book contract from my publisher.

Scrivener 3 how to go back to early revision