All I needed was a little edumacation: First true experience with Scrivener

I am a panster writer at heart, but I also get floods of ideas for the series I’m working on. I have a binder full of stuff, but I also like to work away from home when I can. Having a semi screwed up back, and a really bad left arm, carrying heavy stuff is not my forte. Therefore, the more things I can do digitally the better. Except I hate having multiple files open in multiple programs.

I know what you’re thinking: why don’t you just use Scrivener. It’s made for writers, especially writers like you.

Well dear reader I had. Multiple times, but when things get too cluttered seeming and confusing I am very quick to abandon ship. Like the stereo-typical man, I’m not a fan of reading instructions (unless I’m assembling furniture). I love to feel I am smart enough to dive right in and figure everything out on my own.

As you can probably guess, that hasn’t worked out very well for me.

So after lots of trial and error with various other software programs “like” Scrivener, i finally decided to look into the real deal. And this time instead of getting overwhelmed, I made myself watch tutorial videos.

It’s amazing what a little edumacation can do. While I still have a lot to learn, my eyes have been opened to the joy that is this god of writer software, built by a company known as Literature and Latte (Which should have tipped me off right there to how awesome this thing really was).

Downloading any and all tutorial videos I can get my hands on, I truly foresee this replacing word for��the most part. The downside is sometimes I like to take my tablet with me to write, and with no android app I’m going to continue using Google docs for such a thing. Not that matters with the totally awesome import feature. That’s another thing I lurve about scrivener as of this moment. You see, I like writing in chunks. I find it helps me think better, so the fact that I can compile my current chunks, and then write in chunks within the program itself, is awesome.

I’m still learning a lot, and maybe I will blog about my new conversion as I gain more knowledge on this stupidly awesome program. You should try it out yourself, as there is a 30 days-of-use free trial, and it’s discounted for those NaNoWriMo peeps who conquered the 50 000 word mount.��Until then, I’m going to go back to learning and playing so i can get back to the writing.