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Main Tutorial (Part 2)

[Direct continuation from where Part 1 left off.]

Copyholder

Now I've already talked about layout and the Split modes further up, but that's not the end of our layout options in the Editor. Besides Split mode to show two files/scrivenings, you can also use the Copyholder to display notes, a snapshot (we’ll get to that), another scene – whatever. To do that, you right-click on the file you want and go to Open -> in Copyholder. You can change the position of the Copyholder with a right-click into its frame.

Similarly, if you choose Open -> as Quick Reference, the selected file will open in a small, floating window. Many options to have many things open at once – neat shit.

[There are a couple other options for the Editor (including Typewriter mode, Focus, and Composition mode); they are covered in the Extended Tutorial.]

The Inspector

So, finally, all to the right we have my favourite thing: the Inspector, with five tabs. [Reminder at this point that this is just my personal workflow. Ok? Ok.]

Notes

The first tab (outer left icon) is Notes. With Notes selected, up top you see Synopsis. I use this to roughly outline my scene. Sometimes there's no more than a sentence or two in there, in this case now it's a fairly detailed one.

Under that you see the Notes, and you see that not everything is in the same font. I put many things in the notes, the three main ones of which you see in the first image above:

something that'll potentially go into the author's notes when I eventually post the chapter with that scene in it; aka my thoughts while writing, how i felt, something funny, idk — really whatever, just author's notes

shit I wanna remember without having to think about it every time; here, who's in the scene and the age of the three most important characters

in the serif font you see deleted sentences! meaning sometimes while writing I'm like "nah, i wanna say this differently" but I also am not sure how, so instead of deleting the thing outright I cut-paste it into the side notes and keep it. Sometimes it gets used later, sometimes it won't.

Every now and then I'll clear out the side notes, for which (in some projects) I made a dedicated Deleted Passages root-folder to collect it all in. Whenever the side notes get too full, I cut-paste the whole blurb into the deleted passages file for that scene. Though, admittedly, it's quite rare that I keep multiple and organised files of my deleted passages. Usually it's just one huge thing where I never find anything.

Still, I've legit brought back whole long sections of text from this deleted passages log. Like, sometimes I'd bring back up to 700-1000 words that barely needed edit, it just had to go somewhere else and I wasn’t there yet. And I still do that, even though I by now discovered the Snapshot function. We’ll get to that in a bit.

Bookmarks

Moving on to the next Inspector tab, we're not with Notes anymore but with Bookmarks! So, wtf are Bookmarks, how do they work, why the fuck do we care?

In essence, a Bookmark allows you to open linked files in the Inspector. That’s neat because your Editor can stay where you were and you can continue writing, rather than clicking away from your scene there to check your notes — which then means you have to find your spot again once you return. Nobody likes that. 

(Yes, you could right-click on your desired internal file to open it in the Copyholder. That’s effort though, plus now you can’t use the Copyholder for something else. Anyway, moving on.)

There are two "types" of bookmarks: Project Bookmarks (PB) and Document Bookmarks (DB) -- yes i'm abbreviating those because I'm lazy. You can easily switch between the two like this.

And because Scrivener is amazing, both of these do exactly what it says on the tin.

Project bookmarks are accessible from everywhere and anywhere in the project. No matter which folder, file, or scrivening you're in, PBs are always there for you, like the kind of reliable person that is too mentally stable to be friends with any of us and brings us tea when we’re cold.

"Okay, great, but why do we need that?"

Well, no matter what you’re writing (thesis, novel etc.) there are probably certain things you’re gonna look up more than once (if you’re anything like me and your memory is as sound as sieve at least). General notes, outlines etc. seem like the obvious choices to be linked as PBs — you’ll likely need them over and over, and a PB lets you access the thing(s) from anywhere quickly. Neat shit.

Document bookmarks on the other hand are specific to the file where you created the bookmark (shocking, right? I’d never have guessed that). So if you bookmark a thing for the third scene in chapter 14, the DB won’t show up anywhere else. 

"But V, you just said that we can make things accessible from everywhere, why would we not just do that?"

Right, sure, fair point. Until there’s this side character which is kinda prominent in those two scenes but not really anywhere else and you keep forgetting whether you gave them armour or not, or whether they’re tall or tiny, and where did you say they came from again? Are you sure you want to clog up your project-wide bookmarks with the half-empty character sheet for Obscure-Sidekick #36? Exactly.

Now, though I’m sure it’s already quite obvious from above: What exactly do you actually save as a bookmark?

Internal Bookmarks (IB) are any files from within your Scrivener project that you select over the Binder-menu thingy you see in the image. Those are the notes, the outlines, the character and location sheets, the research you’ve imported — whatever, you could even link another scene that is really closely related to the one you’re working on with a DB.

External Bookmarks (EB) are the logical counterpart of IBs, meaning anything that isn’t in your Scrivener project. Is there this one website you always inevitably open while writing? Bookmark it.

EBs also include External File Bookmarks which allows you to link a file from your computer to keep it on hand; like the PDF of that one Review article that covers the entire theory for your thesis and you’re tired of going back and forth while trying to paraphrase.

Now those of you who paid attention saw a thing named Matching Text. The way this works is that it’ll compare the text of the doc you’re currently in with the text in all the bookmarks and show you any matching text. I’ll admit I have not yet found a good use for this, except if you’re writing a research paper and wanna check that your paraphrasing holds up. I’m sure there’s a point to it and it’ll reveal itself eventually – until then we'll gloss over this here.

Metadata

Moving on from Bookmarks, we go one further to the right to the little tag icon: There we have General Metadata, Custom Metadata, and Keywords.

General Metadata is literally just that; ordinary metadata. Boring, moving on.

The only preset that I saw for Custom Metadata is “Event Start Date” – I added Event End Date myself by clicking on the three little dots which opens the settings. You can pick your date format (short, long, full, including time, custom etc.) and there are three other types of metadata (Text, Checkbox, List) that I haven’t explored yet. 

I assume if you have something that can either be true or untrue for a scene a checkbox would make sense.

Keywords are really quite simple: To set it up, you either use the menu bar (Project) or click on the three little dots in the Keywords field and choose Show Project Keywords. Now in the beginning that’s obviously empty – so you fill it with ... well, with whatever you want! 

I sorted mine by character and location, but you do what you need for your project. The left little plus is to add a keyword on the same level (sibling), the one to the right of it creates a sub-keyword (child), and the minus to the right of that deletes whatever is selected.

You can shift the keywords around as much as you like, can drag and drop them into each other to make them child-keywords etc. Though personally I’d create it as linearly as possible because then it makes a pretty rainbow by default! Whiii!! Of course you can also change the colours so… ANYWAYS

To add a keyword to a file (folder, scene, whatever), you either open the Project Keywords and drag-and-drop (works with multiple at once!) or you click on the three little dots again and choose your tag you wanna add.

Now why is this cool? It’s cool because a) if you go into the Project Keywords, select one and then click the little magnifying glass (bottom right), it’ll show you all the files/folders that have that Keyword in the Binder (neat shit), and b) COLOURS!

Corkboard view, for example, looks like this:

And Outline view looks like this:

You can also display the actual text of the tags, I chose to have them as colour chips. You can pick and choose what is displayed in the outline; word count, progress, synopsis etc. Further, Outline view also gives you the option to display any Custom Metadata you made.

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Due to Tumblr having a maximum limit of 10 images per post, this is the end of Part 2 for the Main Tutorial. Click here for Part 3.

All tutorials, supplementary posts, and what they contain are listed in the Masterlist. Thank you for your attention, I hope it was helpful, and if you have questions send an ask or message me.

Starting with the trickiest parts, the hat and I’m gonna say cowl can be made fairly easily out of a sweater or sweatshirt (the latter will be easier). DO NOT USE A KNITTED SWEATER, IT WILL UNRAVEL. So find yourself one you like, or 1 ½ meters of jersey (or other sweatshirt-appropriate fabric) and a basic sweatshirt pattern. My instructions below are for modifying a sweater, but can be easily adapted for making from scratch.

The Cowl

1) Mark a line on your sweater about 3″-4″ down from the shoulder on each arm. Mark an 1″ or so higher at the front and back and connect with gentle curves. Don’t fret too much about measurements here, do what looks good. Mark an extra ½-1″ below that line for your hem allowance and cut. 

2) Set the rest of the body of the sweater aside. Sew your now severed sleeves together to form a tube.

3) Line up the center seam of the sleeve tube with the center back of the neckline and stitch the bottom of the tube to the collar. Stitch only as far as the shoulder seams. To finish, sew up your 1/2″-1″ hem allowance.  

The Hat

1) Grab the leftover body of your sweater and turn inside out. Mark the shape of the hat with the bottom being the circumference of your head and the top being about half that. If the fabric has any stretch, make it an inch or so smaller. I recommend using the bottom of the sweater as the head opening since it’s already hemmed.

2) Stitch along your marked lines and trim the rest of the sweater away, leaving ¼-1/2″ seam allowance. From your excess, cut your cuff piece 5″ tall by the total length of your top opening PLUS 1″ wide (that’s for 1/2″ seam allowance on both sides)

3) Sew your cuff piece in half along the 5″ side, then fold it in half, again on the 5″ side so your cuff is now 2.5″x Width of top opening

 4) Sew your cuff into your top opening with 1/2″ seam allowance and turn right side out. And you’re done!

5) If it’s a material that doesn’t fray, go ahead and just cut his Narancia-esque slit on the right side above where the temple would be. 

If it will fray: stitch a line around where your slit will be first, cut it open, then brush the raw edges with FrayTac

The Shirt

It may look like a unitard, but I highly advise making it a shirt and tights instead. Having to take off your entire costume to go to the bathroom sucks.  

Find yourself a tight-fitting black shirt and grab:

-Either your leftover jersey (if you made your cowl and hat or if you used a very big sweater) or get yourself ½ meter of jersey (from your local fabric store or just cut up a medium to large tshirt)

-1 pack of white double-fold bias tape

1) Mark your line for the opening in the chest then stitch on top of it to give the opening some stability. Cut out the opening 1/8″ or as close as possible to the stitch line. DO NOT CUT OUT THE COLLAR. Leaving the collar fully intact will be critical in keeping the opening stable.

2) Sandwich the raw edges of the opening with the bias tape and stitch down. Referring back to the coloured picture at the top: even after looking at multiple frames, I honestly can’t tell if the white lines going under the pectorals are highlights or actual details. So cosplayer’s choice! If you do opt for the underboob lines, you can use excess bias tape and tuck the end into the shit/tape sandwich at the juncture as illustrated above. 

3) Now the easy part! The sleeves look like rags hacked together, so you’re gonna cut yourself 8 pieces of somewhat ragged jersey. They should be between 1/2″-1″ longer than the circumference of your sleeves. The width depends on how long you arms are. Adding the 4 strips should fairly neatly divide your sleeve into 8 segments. You can go ahead and stitch them down when you’re satisfied with placement. Stitching right on top will encourage the jersey to curl on the edges, giving a more ragged look.  

And All The Rest

Shorts, Belt, Tights, and Loafers with thick Socks can all be thrifted, no problem!

So between these two official illustrations we’re already seeing some different options.

Hair: Pompadour only with the rest of the head shaved OR The same style as Okuyasu

Undershirt: Collared shirt OR Nothing at all

Pins: Josuke’s Heart and Peace sign OR None

I’ve seen both versions done and they both look appropriately Jojo so it comes down to what you like and what you’re comfortable with. You can see a great version of the two-layered look here

Putting the Costume Together

Wig: At the moment, getting a specifically Josefumi wig is not an option (that I have found so far). If you aren’t good at altering and styling wigs yourself, you could commission someone or get one of the few Okuyasu wigs that can be found online like this one 

Lipstick: Again, colour is pretty much up to you. If you can’t find your ideal colour, a water-proof eyeliner will also do the trick.  

As for the overshirt: Your easiest option for the grid shirt is to get a wide set fishnet shirt like this which comes in multiple colours.

The second option is to get a sweater and paint the “undershirt”  on using fabric paint (or acrylic mixed with a Fabric Paint Medium) and tape to mark your lines.

The third version is to get a sweater (make sure it’s jersey or another type of fabric that won’t fray), make a stencil and cut out all of the squares with an exacto knife. This will be very time-intensive and will require you to be very careful.

If you’re very confident in your pattern drafting/draping skills and feel like driving yourself absolutely insane then there is a fourth option to make 12+ meters of jersey tape and arrange it into a sweater. I don’t recommend this, but if enough people ask, I will make a tutorial as it can be used for multiple characters.

Pins: You could make from just craft foam, or The Sandwich Method with Worbla or another type of thermoplastic with a pin backing glued to the back

Optional Under-shirt and Pants: The appear to just be a standard pair of pants and collared shirt, easily thriftable

Shoes: He appears to be wearing loafers, so once again easily thriftable