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meg_evonne:
Yeah, someone gave me a heads up on this and I'm looking for additional input as to its useful value.

http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.html

I've got to say that it looks pretty impressive.  Too good to be true, I'm wondering?

Darwinist:
Does look interesting, I'd be intrigued to try it just for the novelty.

But in the scheme of things, this looks highly ambitious. I'm old school, I prefer my notes, which I can carry around with me and tinker with while I'm away from my PC. Still, the price ain't bad.

(edit, nevermind ... it's for Mac only, not Windows compatible)

seekmore:

--- Quote from: meg_evonne on August 24, 2009, 04:47:58 PM ---Yeah, someone gave me a heads up on this and I'm looking for additional input as to its useful value.

http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.html

I've got to say that it looks pretty impressive.  Too good to be true, I'm wondering?

--- End quote ---

I know two published authors that swear by it.

meg_evonne:

--- Quote from: Darwinist on August 24, 2009, 05:58:10 PM ---(edit, nevermind ... it's for Mac only, not Windows compatible)
--- End quote ---

DANG IT! so now I'm back to my laptop that is running extremely HOT and is sure to blow up soon.  That means that I'm back to Mac vs Windows headaches. 

Please keep posting your thoughts--the only reason I'd have to switch to Mac was if this program was what it's hyped up to be....  *grumble, grumble*  Hey can I pay Iago to zap my computer and make it well?  Then I won't have to face the M vs W smackdown....

RobJN:
Meg, have you watched the tutorial videos?

I tried the 30 day trial, and bought it after about two weeks. It just does a lot of things the way I want to do them, and keeps the clutter of most word processors out of the way so I'm not tempted to play with the fonts for 20 minutes.

I like to write in blocks -- an action scene here, a slower dialogue scene there, something way far-out further in the work that I'm going to need to start foreshadowing, or something further back in the manuscript that I want to flesh out.

For some of the stuff I'm working on, I have a lot of pictures and diagrams that I keep referring to: Scrivener lets me drop them all in one place so I don't have to keep hunting for them all over my HD, or keep switching to different applications to check my notes.

And not knowing how long the writing projects I'm working on will be, I like the flexibility that Scrivener offers for keeping the monsters organized-and-self-contained.

I'd be interested to see from people who don't like the program -- what didn't work?

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