Shifting one scene before or after another to see how it works is no longer a chore.
Having all of your pieces organised into segments along the side makes it so simple to chop and change. It’s especially helpful during the editing stage. In the time I’ve used it, it’s yet to crash once. Not only that, but the file auto-saves every two seconds to help prevent any lost work, and is generally more stable than Word documents. You can also split the screen to work on both, or drag and drop items from one document into another, all without leaving the original screen. You can click and choose whichever you want to work on. In Scrivener, you open a single document and all of your drafts, ideas, character studies - everything you could possibly want - is all in that single document along the side tab. When writing, you might have ten different tabs open at once and be constantly flipping between pages (usually copying and pasting), which can be exhausting. One marked RESEARCH, another saying SECOND DRAFT, a third called CHARACTERS, and the list goes on. With Word, you tend to end up with about fifty different saved files during a project. One of Scrivener’s best features is the ability to keep all of your work in one place.
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So what are you waiting for? Download it and get to work. I’ll talk about Scrivener in a minute, but being able to sync my ideas directly into a novel document saves time on copying and pasting. Also, it syncs across multiple platforms, including Scrivener, which is a massive bonus for me.
The minimalist layout is clearer, and it’s easy to sort your ideas into groups so you don’t end up with hundreds of different notes. I know plenty of people use EverNote (which is similar), but I prefer SimpleNote. It’s basically a notebook for your iPhone. This is one of my favourite writing tools - if it can be called that.
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