21 Jul 2007, Posted by Cat in News, 12 Comments.
awesome software
Today I downloaded the 30 day trial version of Scrivener [http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.html]. But I won’t need 30 days to figure out if I want to buy it or not. Five minutes using it and I’d already forgotten there was any other way to organise a novel. If I’d had Scrivener a year ago I’d have finished the bloomin book by now. Scrivener is for Macs only. The designer deserves $$ for that fact alone.
Also, today I bought music online for the first time ever. I’m a bit behind the eight ball with music technology, but I was so impressed to discover that I can just cherry pick my favourite songs and buy them for a buck seventy each! Listening to The Cynic by Kashmir, Galaxies by Laura Veirs, Walking with a Ghost by Tegan & Sara & Steamworks by the Presets. AWESOME!
12 Comments
July 21, 2007 8:18 am
andrewmacrae
i got scrivener too. unlike you, it took me a couple of goes to work out how to use it and if it really was for me. until now, i’d just been using ms word. but in the end i coughed up for the license fee. so far i’ve only used it for small writing assignments, but i love how easy it is to move discrete sections around. let me know how you get on with it.
July 21 2007 08:25 am
Cat @
It all looked difficult to me till I did the tutorial. Then all became clear. I swear I've done about a months worth of plotting work today just cos I can see the whole book clearly now. I don't have to hold it all in my head cos the Scrivner layout is so practical. And how much does that corkboard rock?
July 21, 2007 8:29 am
kathrynlinge
Hooray for Macs!
July 21 2007 08:30 am
Cat @
shit yeah!
July 21, 2007 12:34 pm
martinlivings
Looks like a bells-and-whistles version of‘s yWriter?
http://www.spacejock.com/yWriter.html
I used this to write my last book. To be honest, it didn’t rock my socks. I’d try Scrivener, but until they hack Mac OS X properly so I can run it on my Dell, XP it is.
July 21 2007 12:37 pm
Cat @
Yeah, there are several other writing software products out there on the market. But something about the Scrivener layout really appeals to me -- and not just its Mac friendliness.
July 23, 2007 12:25 am
phillberrie
Wow!
Thanks for the heads up on this.
I’ll certainly be giving it the thirty day trial, though perhaps not committing my novel to it quite yet, I’ve been stung that way before.
July 23 2007 00:30 am
Cat @
so far so good with me.Thing is, at any point you can just export all your text back out into word if you decide the program doesn't suit.
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