When the time came to download that baby I was first in line, and that’s when I thought I could write a tutorial for the WinScriv version. Much to my surprise, in a status update, it was announced that there would be a Windows beta version just in time for NANOWRIMO. And so, in a fit of frustration, I visited the Scrivener Facebook page with the intention to plead with the folks at Literature and Latte to design a Windows version.
I tried to find a comparable program, but none matched Scrivener’s features or oomph. Unfortunately, it was only for Macs and at that time I had an HP laptop. However, in the fall of 2010, my writing life changed when a writer friend on Facebook showed off her scenes via the corkboard feature in a photograph.Ĭorkboard image courtesy of I was jealous. What I needed was a virtual three-ring binder or even a file cabinet where I could find every document in one spot without having to open every single file in my documents folder.Īnd then there was the question of writing a novel (those who read my blog know all my woes, trials and tribulations about the WIP) and keeping that organized.
I don’t know how many times I ended up emailing the wrong draft of an article or chapter because of my terrible filing system. You might be raising an eyebrow thinking that my admin skills are not great. Suffice it to say that with each new document or revision the files kept multiplying and multiplying and multiplying… The endless drafts and revisions, and the research. At the time, the version I had of Word was functional and not as bloated, but what killed me was all the related writing that went with one project. I write marketing collateral, web copy, book reviews, articles, and blog posts. It turned out to be so complicated that I abandoned it and went back to using Word. I remember reading about Scrivener on the Internet Writing Workshop’s writing list, and truth be told, I didn’t pay much attention to it because I had purchased another writing software specifically for novel writing.
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