Scrivener combines all these functions seamlessly into projects. I have also used Writer’s Blocks for its storyboard function. There is also an included (and rather technical) 267-page user’s manual in pdf form.įor my last novel I had files spread over several programs: the manuscript in Word, scenes outlined in Action Outline, a time line in Excel (that one was probably overkill), and pictures and research stored in OneNote. The program comes with an excellent interactive tutorial that runs you through the basics of the program, and leaves you gasping at the complexity and flexibility of Scrivener. If you decide to keep it, the cost is only $40–hard to go wrong at that price. Scrivener allows you to download the full program for a free thirty-day trial at Literature & Latte. I only had the first chapter written, so it seemed like a good time to try something new, and there was Scrivener for Windows waiting for me. What with one distraction and another, I didn’t give Scrivener for Windows much thought.īut on October 1 I jumped back onto the 100 Words/100 Days wagon (day 38 as I write this), meaning to get back into a story I started months ago. When the first version for Windows was released about a year ago, I was too involved in finishing a novel to notice. Many of my Mac-using writing friends swore by a program called Scrivener, but it wasn’t available for PCs. I’ve been flirting with software programs for years, having little flings with one system or another but always returning to my long-term commitment to Word.
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