Scrivener — what a great writing tool

A number of years ago, a colleague in the TWS Writer’s Studio turned me on to Scrivener, a fabulous writer’s word-processor for the Mac. I’d been exper­i­ment­ing around with differ­ent programs to help me manage the count­less scenes and drafts of my manuscript — a tool that would help me quickly revise, re-format, re-structure and deal with the masses of individ­ual files I’d been accumu­lat­ing over the past years.

“You have to try Scrivener,” said Michael. And I did. As usual, rather than download a demo version, I plunged in and bought the tool online. True to Michael’s word, the software does every­thing a writer needs. Most impor­tantly, Scrivener allows me to focus on the writing. I can quickly go full screen, enlarge the font and just have a page of words to concen­trate on — not menus, no toolbars, no distrac­tions. Whenever I want, I can switch to an outline view, or write summaries and post them on a corkboard, re-arrange chapters or scenes by click­ing and dragging. I have complete control over fonts, formats, layouts, etc. Most impor­tantly I don’t have the large footprint of a bloated program like MS-Word.  I have places to store notes, links, images, keywords, even charac­ter sketches

Without doubt, this is the finest writing program I’ve found for writers. By the way, for you Window’s users, you can now get it too. Check it out — at less than $50 bucks, it’s a steal.