October Novel Prep Challenge

As I said, don't do it now, but after NaNo, I recommend you open the interactive tutorial (under the Help menu) and go through it step by step. Don't skim it; do all the steps. It did a great job of familiarizing me with the basics of the program. There is also a page of video tutorials linked under the same Help menu, but most of these are specific to particular tasks or features. Do the interactive first.

Once you get over that first bit of learning curve, you start seeing what the program can do for you in more detail. Be aware that it is highly customizable too; you aren't limited to the templates and categories you see in the basic distribution. So, when you have the basics of the program down, hit the web and start looking for stuff other writers have posted for you to import and use. You are likely to find at least a few of these are written by someone whose brain works in similar fashion to your own, so that their templates work for you too.

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Regards,
Eric Fretheim
Assistant Prep Leader, 2015 October NaNoWriMo Prep Challenge

"It is perfectly okay to write garbage-- as long as you edit brilliantly." ~C.J. Cherryh

“No, writing 50,000 words in a month is normal. You are not crazy. This is not insane.” ~Teri Brown