While Scrivener is a word processor for the Mac-oriented writer, even PC-based writers can learn a lot from a review of the software posted recently on the 43 FOLDERS blog.
The review details the often non-sequential, stop-and-go writing habits that many of us follow. And the review clearly illustrates how the many components of Scrivener combine to truly help writers cope with these chaotic habits, leaving PC word-processors in the dust. Particularly intriguing to me are the integrated “index card” component, the outliner and the research tools.
In coming weeks, BECOMING A WRITER–SERIOUSLY will explore PC-based programs that can be patched together to approach the capabilities offered by Scrivener. In the meantime, be sure to check the 43 Folders review of Scrivener.
Serious writers, especially Mac users, may wish to examine the Scrivener home page. Here you will “see” many of the software’s features. Amazingly, this super-powerful software costs only $34.99. This is THE PROGRAM I’ve been searching for over the past year and a half: maybe I’ll have to buy a Mac, at long last. At this homepage, you will also find a few interesting “freebies” worth investigation by Mac users. Before plunging for a Mac though, I’ll first finish exploring my emerging patch-work of PC programs which may be able, rather inelegantly, to accomplish the same thing.
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Comment by
Armando
24 Sep 2007
Hi Tom!
Armando from DonationCoder here!
Thanks for this wonderful website!
Take care.
PS: I believe there’s a small mistake in the spelling of Scrivener… you sometimes spell it ScHrivener…