Scrivener for Windows Beta now available!

Good news for writers, Scrivener for Windows is coming! This is an excellent writing program and I've raved about it before so I won't repeat myself, but up to now its main drawback has been that it's Mac only. The folks at Literature and Latte have been working hard at changing that and they're almost ready to go into beta ( Read more... )

Latest chapter of Mother Arc is marinating, so I was playing around with Scrivener and thought I'd share the layout of my "binder":
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( scene breakdown for Now and Then )

Word and Scrivener disagree on whether it's "nicknacks" or "knickknacks". But then, Word also doesn't like "grey" or "judgement" (or "thunked"), so I think I'm going to go with Scrivener on this one. Besides, "knickknacks" has far too many Ks, it looks awkward and stuttery. (Incidentally, Safari's spellcheck doesn't have a problem with any of ( Read more... )

Ha! I found out how to display the non-printing characters in Scrivener! They're called "invisibles"! This makes me absurdly happy. And I'm well aware of the "absurd" part. But whenever I opened a document in Word for formatting, I'd react with, "oh, hello non-printing characters, I missed you~~" But now they're right there - in blue! - in my ( Read more... )

I've been using Scrivener for a few weeks now, and it's a huuuuge improvement over Word and my old system of files. There are a few features I miss, like being able to see the non-printing characters (I know, I'm weird), but it doesn't annoy me the way Word does, and has so many nifty features. For one thing, Scrivener's organization way beats ( Read more... )

I've been hearing about Scrivener, this nifty sort of do-all for long writing projects, and thought, hm, that might be handy. But I already have Word, do I really need another word processing program? And I have Notebook for organizing research, do I really need a program that does both? (I seem to have this thing about redundancy and whether or ( Read more... )