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And writing. And writing. Scrivener is an app for writers of all kinds, used every day by bestselling authors, screenwriters, nonfiction writers, students, academics, lawyers, journalists, translators, and more. Scrivener won’t tell you how to write, it just gives you everything you need to start writing and keep writing. Grow your manuscript your way. Designed for long-form writing projects, Scrivener banishes the fear of pages by letting you compose text in any order, in sections as big or as small as you want. Have a great idea but don’t know where it fits?
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Write when inspiration strikes and find your place later. Grow your manuscript organically, idea by idea. See the forest or the trees Whether you’re planning or diving in, Scrivener works your way: pull out every detail before you type a word, or create an outline and revise it later. Or mix it up and do a little bit of both. In Scrivener, everything you write is integrated into an easy-to-use draft outline. So revising your manuscript is just a click away, and turning Chapter Four into Chapter One is as easy as drag-and-drop. In Scrivener, background material is always at hand and can be opened right next to your work.
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Write a description based on a photo. Annotate a PDF or web page. Or check for consistency by referencing a previous chapter next to the current one. When you’re ready to share your work with the world, compile everything into a single document for printing, self-publishing, or exporting to popular formats like Word, PDF, Final Draft, or plain text. You can even share with different formatting, so you can write in your favorite font and still follow submission guidelines. Scrivener: Chapter 3 Scrivener 3 is the best version of Scrivener we’ve ever made, and it’s still available. From a blank page to a book, Your Way Scrivener combines everything you need to write, research, and organize long documents into one powerful app.
With built-in outline tools, you can draft everything first or restructure later
It’s essentially a simple ring binder that lets you collect material and easily navigate through different parts of your manuscript, notes, and references. Break your text into manageable chunks of any size, and let Scrivener stitch them together. And as your project grows, you’ll see Scrivener grow with it. Together You can instantly switch between editing a piece of a manuscript and editing it as a whole. Working on long text is easier when you break it into smaller chunks, and Scrivener gives you complete control over how small (or large) those chunks should be. Novelists can write each scene in a separate document or entire chapters as one; theses can be divided into arguments, chapters, or paragraphs. No matter how many times you chop it up, Scrivener’s innovative “Scrivenings” mode lets you put the pieces together as if they were part of a single document.
Organize your draft however you want, using folders and subfolders
Corkboard Corkboard is one of the most well-known writer’s planning tools. But before Scrivener, if you moved cards around on the whiteboard, you also had to rearrange the parts of those cards represented in the manuscript to reflect the changes. In Scrivener, each part of your project is attached to a virtual card. With Scrivener’s corkboard, you can step back and work with just the synopses written on the books—and when you move them around, you rearrange your manuscript at the same time. Outliner Find the structure of your writing with Scrivener’s powerful outliner. Like a corkboard, you can work with an outline to revise a chapter, a section, or even your entire manuscript, but it puts even more information at your fingertips.