![]() Even though I’ve only scratched the surface, I’m glad I did. When the first version of Scrivener for Windows came out in 2011, I put off following up on it because I was busy, and because it was the first version, but last fall I decided to take the plunge. ![]() WriteWay and Writer’s Blocks came closest to being all-in-one environments, but I was never comfortable actually writing in either of them, hence the reliance on multiple programs. I have a large and unwieldy collection of writing software. I may even have had an abortive attempt at a story board in Writer’s Blocks. But for my last novel, I had files in four programs: the manuscript in Word, time lines in Excel, research in One Note, and outlines in Action Outline. I finally switched to Word, on the theory that it had gained such market dominance that even my using it could not doom it. But at least with Ami Pro I discovered that I could keep a whole novel in one file. I went through numerous programs like that: the one that came with my first computer, which I think was called something imaginative like “Write,” Brown Bag, Electric Pencil, Sprint, and Ami Pro, which I used until Lotus bought and ruined it. Figuring out the pagination was especially fun. When I first started writing on a computer, back in the dark ages some thirty years ago, a word processing program file only held about twenty pages, so we had no choice but to break a novel length manuscript into short sections. I’d been searching for the ultimate writing software program for years (preferably the one that Stephen King and Nora Roberts use, the one that writes whole novels in the time it takes me to do the laundry), but I kept going back to Word. When I started hearing ecstatic references to a Mac program for writers called Scrivener several years ago, I was a bit envious, but I didn’t think much about it. I’ve been a PC user since the beginning of time.
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