1. Create an empty project.
2. Add folders for Blog, and social media (CTRL+Shift+N). I’ve got folders for website, Twitter and Facebook.
3. Add Folder and call it Template Folder. (CTRL+Shift+N). RIGHT CLICK on it and designate it as a templates folder (duh! But you’ll see why)
4. Go to your templates folder. Now, at the top, click the corkboard icon. CTRL+N twice.
5. Click on the corkboard, then CTRL+N twice
6. Name one “post”, and another “Tweet”.
7 open Tweet.
8. At the bottom right, you’ll see a little bulls-eye. Click that, enter 12. It’s defaulted to zero, and if you type “12”, you now have 120. TAB button once, arrow down once. Now you’ve told it “characters”. There’ll now be a little progress bar in the lower right hand corner. It will tell you as you get to your 120 character limit.
9. Open “post” and do the same, except now your limit should be 400-500. Choose a number (I chose 500) and hit enter. It now is set for 500 words as your target. Unless you forgot to drop a zero, and your blog limit is now set for 5,000 words!
10. You’ll want to have one for Facebook posts as well. I haven’t got that yet, but that can be MUCH lower in word count. 100 words is pushing it for a Facebook post, but I haven’t seen any hard and fast rules. (my progress indicator right now is in the yellow. This article is half done.)
11. Go to your folders, and click “Add from template” and choose.
12. You’ll now have to right-click on the post or tweet file, and choose duplicate. I haven’t added key combinations yet, but I suppose CTRL+Shift+D would be good as “duplicate”.
13. We’re almost done setting up and organizing. Inside the folders, you’ll want to add a folder for year, then folders inside those for months.
14. When you finish a month, simply move all of your posts and tweets into the storage folder.
15. This is the last step I did. I added meta tags and keywords (see the Scrivener website for videos on how to do this), so that I have different statuses. I now can see if I’ve uploaded it yet. If I need to add Meta Tags for search engines (blast that darn SEO!) In my scrivenings view, I can see which post is for which date, and I keep them organized by that. This is a little more complicated, and I’ve shown how to do it in other blog posts.
My indicator hit green. Blog post done!
PS- I’ll make an Ebook soon with screen captures so you can see exactly how I do it!
