I’ve been playing with their magical Meatgrinder
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9 responses to “I’ve been playing with their magical Meatgrinder”
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The ‘meatgrinder’ is easy to use. IF the user follows the instructions to the letter and doesn’t think they know better, or take shortcuts. :)
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They have a very precise set of rules, you cannot slip even a tiny bit! The secret is the ‘nuclear method’ that you do at the beginning, to remove all the messy bits that you cannot see, but can still cause problems…
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I wrote ‘Prelude’ on Scrivener using the blank template, which made ‘nuking’ it fairly easy. I started my new novel using the ‘novel’ template’ (I think it’s called) and soon realised that all the wizz-bang pre-formatting stuff that was in the template would make the ‘nuking’ step an absolute nightmare.
I wasn’t so far along that I couldn’t strip everything I’d written our, copy it to a Word doc, delete that Scrivener ‘project’ and start a new one using the blank template.
Words of warning there! :)
Scrivener does have a way formatting for Smashwords/Amazon, etc, that they SAY is foolproof, but it looks very convoluted, and I’m betting isn’t as foolproof as they’re touting. :)-
Life doesn’t get any less complicated, does it?
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…and does anyone ever sell any books on Smashwords?
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I sell a few every month :) … going through the Smashwords process did however, make it easier for me to format the print version, so there’s that. :)
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Do you have a print version on Smashwords too?
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SW only does ebooks … but going through the meatgrinder meant I’d already done most of the formatting, (mostly using ‘styles’ and paragraph formatting) that I needed to for the print version for the Zon … all I really needed to do was make sure I got the page breaks in the right places … a not insignificant task, as I’m sure you’re well aware. :D
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I get confused with SW. You can link your print copies to them somehow though…
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