The Galley blog
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Guides Getting a Scrivener Project Into Word Without Wrecking It How to compile a Scrivener project to a clean Word document for an editor, an agent or another tool, and the settings that cause most of the mess. -
Design Justified or Ragged Right for a Novel? Whether to justify the text of a printed novel, why justified text needs hyphenation, and when a ragged right edge is the better choice. -
Galley Is Your Writing Being Used to Train AI? How to find out what your writing app is allowed to do with your manuscript: the licence grant, the improve-our-services clause, the sub-processor list, and what no hosted tool can honestly promise. -
Guides Does Scrivener Use AI? And Which Writing Apps Do Scrivener has no AI in it, but on a Mac you may still see Apple's AI writing tools inside it. Here's where each popular writing app stands on AI, and how to turn off the parts that come from your operating system. -
Galley Why Galley Will Never Put AI in Your Prose AI writing tools are everywhere. Galley has none in your manuscript: nothing that writes, rewrites or suggests, and nothing trained on your words. Here's why. -
Guides Scrivener vs Vellum: Which One Does What Scrivener and Vellum aren't rivals. One is for writing a book and the other is for formatting it. Here's what each one is good at, what they cost, and how people use them together. -
Formatting Front Matter and Back Matter: The Right Order for a Novel Every page that comes before and after your story (half-title, title, copyright, dedication, acknowledgements) in the order printers and readers expect. -
Craft A Series Bible for Book Two and Beyond What a series bible holds that a single book's notes don't, how to start one when you're already a book in, and how to carry it into the next book. -
Craft Sending Your Novel to Beta Readers When to send a draft out, how many readers you actually need, the brief that gets useful answers, what file to send, and why every copy should carry the reader's name. -
Galley What You See Is What Prints: Writing on the Real Book Page Most writing apps show you a text box and only show the book at export. Galley shows the finished page (trim, typeface, chapter openings, scene breaks) while you write. -
Craft A Character Sheet That's Actually Useful (With a Real Example) Why 100-question character templates don't help, what a working character sheet holds instead, and a filled-in example for Irene Adler from A Scandal in Bohemia. -
Publishing EPUB, Print PDF, or Both? The Files You Actually Need to Self-Publish What each publishing file is for (print-interior PDF, EPUB, DOCX) and which ones Amazon KDP, IngramSpark, Apple Books and Kobo want.