![]() I write sequentially, chapter-by-chapter, scene by scene. It’s not a view I use, but if you head to their web-site, you can see it in action. ![]() I know people who make really smart use of the filing card view as well, to denote which chapters are viewpoint chapters, or which chapters are heavy action and which are quieter. The ability to break text into scenes, partial scenes, that follow a loose/tight outline doesn’t work for me I know writers who love the program because it allows them to move whole scenes from one part of their novel to another with just a drag-and-drop. Most of its features are features that don’t suit my writing process, so I don’t use them. ![]() There are probably a thousand ways to use Scrivener I’m not a power-user. I find his creation incredibly impressive because of this. He was not, before Scrivener, a programmer. It started life because Keith Blount was trying to write a novel, and he found none of the programs he tried up to the task of handling his process. The first application I use - and the one I would not be without if you paid me - is Scrivener. On the other hand, if anyone has suggestions for PC equivalents of the Mac only apps I list here, that would be great! This is my way of saying that if the comments descend into platform wars, I will moderate with the world’s heaviest hand, possibly because I have read it so many times and there is nothing new. I fully believe that a writer is more than the sum of his or her tools, and that each of us should work on whatever platform we find most comfortable. This is not a religious stance I have a PC (an Asus), on which I play games. I use a Macbook Pro as my main writing machine. Because I have page proofs and I cannot stand to look for any more errors at this time of night, I thought I would take a few minutes to talk about the tools of my trade.
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