By default, it looks like an actual corkboard, but Jony Ive threatened to come round to my place and confiscate both my Macs unless I changed it to something neutral. The corkboard view is intended for planning, and for rejigging the structure when your plan doesn’t quite work out the way you thought it would. Scrivener is such a flexible tool, and so customizable, that it’s hard to even provide an overview without a dozen different riders saying “if you choose to” and “this is just one of several ways of doing this,” but with that understood, I’ll give an overview based on the way that I use it. ![]() I refer to it as an app for novelists, as that’s probably the most common usage, but it can be used for anything from a college thesis to a screenplay. The app is currently available for OS X (with a much-lagged version available for Windows), and there’s an iOS version in the works. Outlines, pen-portraits of characters, web pages, photos, notes, PDFs … absolute anything and everything that might help you create your opus magnum is right there all within a single app … What Scrivener does is bring together in one place all the resources you are likely to need to plan, research, write and either submit or self-publish a novel. What’s wrong with Pages or Word? It was only once I tried it for myself that I understood. I must admit that the idea of specific software for creative writing stuck me as on odd one when I first encountered it. ![]() ![]() Most never start it, and most of those who start it never finish it, but if you want to make a serious attempt, using Scrivener would definitely be the biggest favor you could do yourself. ‘Writing a novel’ seems to be one of the default items on most people’s wish-lists.
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