Somewhere toward the end of a 90-minute session, he acknowledged there was a learning curve. That’s great! Now, you want to get back over to your index cards…” “I see someone made a million dollars using Scrivener. Meanwhile, the Scrivener tutor is sticking to his step-by-step presentation, opening files, clicking icons, and deftly avoiding any comments from PC users.
How fast can you get a Mac and reinstall Scrivener?” “Scrivener has made me a million dollars in book sales since I got it yesterday, and I’m not an affiliate – what’s an affiliate? lol.” “I LOVE SCRIVENER!!!” “Scrivener has meed me a bitter wrtr.” “I’m having trouble with Scrivener for PC.” “Are you using a Mac?” “No, PC/Windows…” “Oh, man, you are so screwed. The comments in the Scrivener bar looked like this. “This weight loss supplement seems great for Photoshop images. Often, in sales-type web-vertizements, you will see questions answered with accidental candor. If you really want to learn from a webinar, keep your eye on the comment bar. Aha! Others were having the same problems, I thought, we’ll work it all out together. That was about the time I received an e-mail for a free tutorial webinar just for Camp Nanowrimo participants.
About three days in, I realized there is nothing intuitive about this software except maybe that some programmer threw it together on a hunch naive writers would buy it. This was going to change my life, after all. I decided to schedule time to learn Scrivener. I bought the software way back yonder, watched the tutorial, got confused, and lost my files. I can’t even wear a mac! But this is a rant about Scrivener…
In full disclosure, I have also never learned to use a Mac. It’s so easy and intuitive!” “Not for me…I’ve had Scrivener for a year, and still don’t know how it works.” “Do you use a Mac?” “No.” “I just hit publish on my 89 th novel!” “What-the-how…?” “Haha, I use Scrivener! It sucks the stories out of my head before I can even start typing. My writing group has these conversations all the time: In the first ten minutes, I couldn’t figure out where the binder I had opened ended up, and why writing in Word and converting the files to Scrivener was a top feature.īut that was a long time ago, and since then, I have heard almost EVERY DAY how great Scrivener is for writers.
When I finished Camp Nanowrimo two years ago (30 days of fast-paced word accumulation, er… I mean, novel writing…) I was so happy with my work I bought a t-shirt and a discounted version of Scrivener, a new-ish, unique-y software just for artsy types like me that was “three thousand times better than MS Word.” The shirt was user-friendly and practically self-explanatory