As I mentioned in my last post about Scrivener, I’ve begun writing my next book, The White Arrow. There are several tools in Scrivener that I use to help me while I write much like having a screwdriver or hammer with me while I repair something around the house. There are 8 tools you can use via Scrivener’s Inspector to help you as you write your rough draft depending on what you need to do. But first, you need to turn on the Inspector and you can do that by clicking View, sliding to Layout and click Inspector from the fly-out menu.

Turn-On the Inspector

Most all users of Scrivener are very familiar with the Binder which appears on the left when turned on. This is a great visual tool for managing your content structure and re-organizing it as necessary (structural editing, if you will). However, there are set…