Everything you write will magically turn into a perfectly formatted, ready-to-submit document, because Scrivener takes care of it all. You don't have to worry about your word count being inexplicably moved to the line below your name (a malady I detailed in a previous column). You don't have to worry about the spacing between your name/contact info and the title of your story. So, if you prefer writing with an 18 point Baskerville font, as I do, you don't have to worry about later changing it to Courier 12 point. This was the first thing that blew me away about Scrivener: like those aforementioned screenwriting applications, all standard manuscript formatting is handled during the export (or, as Scrivener's developers term it, "Compile") process.
It's just that, even with my "short story" template set to standard manuscript formatting, exporting to different file types for submission has always presented a handful of problems and errors, and this is true of any platform, be it Pages, Word, Open Office, etc. I'm not knocking Pages in anyway-or any other word processor, for that matter-and I still use it for article writing (I'm drafting this review on it right now!). Now, I see my fear of learning something new was just that, fear, and that my previous workflow was pretty clunky in comparison. Revisiting the software, I remembered that my reasons for avoiding any kind of total immersion into Scrivener were: one, there's a slight learning curve to it, and I didn't feel I had the time to manage that and two, I'd already established a workflow with Pages. My awareness of it was piqued once again when a friend began religiously singing its praises to me, and when I read this interview we ran last month with John Hornor Jacobs (conducted by Keith Rawson), in which the author identified Scrivener as his word processor of choice. I actually purchased it several years ago, and since that time it's sat dormant on my computer. Best of all, the program really, really works.Īdmittedly, I've known about Scrivener for some time, but I never really explored it until now. Simply put, whether you're a screenwriter, a playwright, a graphic novelist, a prose fiction author, or all of the above, Scrivener is your one-stop shop for all your writerly needs.
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Now, imagine a piece of software that is both multi-platform and rigorously dedicated to the formatting specifics of each medium, and you will have a pretty solid understanding of what Scrivener, the award-winning "writer's writing software," is all about. Of course, the beauty of screenwriting applications like the ones mentioned above is that the program takes on the drudgery of formatting, letting you focus solely on the writing this is because software like Final Draft and Celtx are dedicated to their mediums, rather than multi-purpose word processors that can more or less handle several creative writing platforms. Both these and other software work quite well, particularly if you've already built up a collection of templates with standard manuscript formatting in place. We writers have multiple word processing options at our disposal, with perhaps the most prominent being Microsoft Word and Apple Pages for prose fiction, and Final Draft and Celtx for screenwriting.
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