There are also options for those of us that aren’t great at goal setting, as Scrivener’s blog article, Let Me Count The Ways, describes. This itself is motivating-I can look back and see how long the last ten thousand words took me to write. I do like to try to beat the target but that isn’t always possible obviously! It’s fun to share the milestones with readers. I set a project target, which helps me determine an approximate number of words to write per day. Nathan Dylan Goodwin, the most productive author I know, does exactly that as he writes his best-selling genealogical crime mysteries. You can set goals and measure your progress towards them. Scrivener 3’s writing stats is like having a year-round NaNoWriMo. That’s helpful to those of us who have double tapped the space bar for decades. It also offers a “Tidying Up” function to convert all the double-spaces at the ends of sentences to a single space. It fades out the non-dialogue text, so you can focus on your characters’ conversations. Writers who use dialogue will appreciate Scrivener 3’s linguistic focus function. This is fabulous not only for planning, but for revising. Along with it comes more color coding and labeling. There’s no doubt that the enhanced outlining is a big benefit. Judging from my Detroit Working Writers buddies, if there is one thing that writers and authors all seem to struggle with, it’s exporting their work into Kindle’s format. I haven’t used the export to Kindle, but reviewers seem to agree that it’s improved. This includes epub3, an open standard digital book format. Writers can select which parts of their manuscripts they want to export and can choose the format. The more flexible and friendlier compile feature is a big deal. ![]() I’ll spotlight the changes that have stood out to me. They highlight Scrivener 3’s improvements in the following graphic: What’s New in Scrivener 3įor a full explanation of Scrivener 3’s features and improvements over version 1, read Literature and Latte’s blog post, Introducing Scrivener 3 for Windows. That said, even using only 40% of its capabilities, I loved it. I have used it for years, but it took a while before I was aware of all its features. Literature and Latte, the company “founded by writers for writers,” has produced a robust software. In their review of Scrivener 3, PC Magazine writes (rightly, in my opinion), “Scrivener is the best writing app for long-form writers because they built it with their needs in mind.” I’d suggest a friendly amendment: “It’s for writing. Literature and Latte, the architects of Scrivener 3, claim “It’s for writing. Scrivener is a writing software that helps writers organize research, notes, and drafts, or, as Scrivener puts it, “See the forest or the trees.” It can even help with storyboarding. In my 2019 post: Review: Using Scrivener for Family History and Memoir Writing, I introduced Scrivener and described its version 1 thusly: It’ll make using the software tons easier.As a beta user of Scrivener 3 by Literature and Latte for the last two years, I was excited to see Literature and Latte announce its release.īefore we go into the improvements Scrivener 3 brings to Windows users (the Mac version has been out for a while), let’s step back. There are books out there revealing the Mac’s easter eggs etc., and make sure to give your copy of the Scrivener (or Nisus, or Mariner Write, or Storist) manual a good study. But, don’t assume you don’t have to spend some time familiarizing yourself with the way things are done. More intuitive, and that can throw a fella off. If you do switch to a Mac keep in mind that things are often different than on a Windows machine. Probably about the same time OS 10.6 is announced. But as time goes by you can expect more G4s and early MacTels to go for a much lower price. It’s not unusual for a Pixar (the computer animated character, not the computer animation company) G4 to fetch $500.00 or more. G4 iMacs on the other hand get a tad pricier. I’ve seen older G3 iMacs selling for about $25.00 dollars plus shipping and handling. I paid about $100.00 for The Beast, and that included shipping. ![]() You can find G3 Macs on Ebay for a dang low price. Scrivener is the one I purchase in March. Nisus is paid for, Mute Write is free, it’s the rest I need to spend some currency on. As does Avenir, Mariner Write, Mellel, Mute Write, Nisus, and Storyist. I’m running Tiger on a G3 iMac and Scrivener works fine.
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