His template has acts, sequences, and waypoints highlighted. He also decided to base his on the basic Scrivener novel template. This is another example of a template set up by a writer: Ray Daniel. Setting up your own template: Ray Daniel’s I have two others, apart from the Scrivener templates: one created by Ray Daniel and another by KM Weiland. The templates are presented in alphabetical order.
Next time I select File / NewProject, this template is available to me. Then, referring to the Save the Cat book, I set up each of those ‘scenes’ according to the beats expected within this structure. I then renamed the folder ‘Chapter’ as Act 1, and duplicated the folder to create Acts 2 and 3, both with a single Scene document within them. … so that I’d have templates for characters and settings as well as the ‘normal’ novel structure.
I opened a project using Scrivener’s novel template … I read Jessica Brody’s Save the Cat: Writes a Novel and wanted to follow the 15-beat structure advocated by her. And the Binder is the backbone of your project – the structure. Whatever you decide will determine the starting point for the Binder.