I’ll list some of the other things I also have available in that ONE COMPUTER WINDOW, to give you some inspiration for what you could include in one computer window in YOUR Scrivener project… I can quickly dip into a snapshot to see and compare previous versions, and restore the whole shebang, or copy and paste small sections. That’s what you’re seeing in the right-hand pane, listed by the date they’ve been made and a short description. I take what’s called a Snapshot at significant moments in the development of the manuscript. I can view the MS as a single scene, a single chapter, or in its entirety as one long flowing 100,000 word piece.Įver changed your manuscript and thought, “Dang, that was better before.” Yeah, me too. The scenes are grouped in chapters (folders).And how quickly you get a restraining order from your editor! 😉 ) (Try writing a book in Word with each scene as a separate document and see how much you enjoy it. And then change it back again tomorrow or next week, with another quick click of the mouse. Each scene behaves as a separate document, so that I can change scene order with a quick click of the mouse.The scenes have brief labels in the left-hand pane, so I can remember at a glance what happens in that scene.I’ll show you a screenshot first, from my thriller Poison Bay, and then I’ll tell you why it’s so remarkable (Scrivener that is, not the thriller, we can discuss that some other time 😉 ).įriendly and unassuming, isn’t it? Here’s what I’m able to see in just one computer window: All 130+ scenes of a 100,000 word novel. Here’s my list of the top 3 Scrivener features that make writing easier… 1.
#UNDISTRACTED WRITING SOFTWARE FOR MAC#
It’s available for Mac and PC, and is cheap-as-chips.
But long-form writing is different.įor long-form writing, Scrivener is now my hero. I hear you say, “I’ve got Microsoft Word, why would I need any other piece of software for writing?” I use Word myself, most days of the week. Word was created for business writing, and it’s very good at it.
Scrivener is a small-but-mighty piece of writing software that revolutionises the writing process for long manuscripts – book, script or academic thesis.
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