Switch to Scrivener

After debating for some time, and working with the trial version about four different times, I decided this weekend to switch to Scrivener. For those not familiar with it, Scrivener is a software program designed to assist the writer with the organizational aspects of writing.

Scrivener is not the only such product on the market, but it is the most popular. Scrivener, like similar products, provides a platform which allows the writer to organize most aspects of a writing project in one place.

For couple of years, I’ve been a dedicated user of a competing product called WriteWay. Well WriteWay doesn’t have all of the ‘bells and whistles’ that Scrivener has, it does pretty much the same things. In fact, in my mind, one of the factors that kept me from switching to Scrivener was that some things that are predefined in WriteWay were options that had to be set in Scrivener.

So what made me make the switch to Scrivener? Simply put, it’s the fact that it is the number one program of its type. Other programs are designed to interact with it, which is not the case with some of its competitors. Additionally, I was somewhat concerned that WriteWay has not been upgraded for some time. Conversely, it appears that Scrivener receives fairly regular updates.

Both of these programs are similarly priced — $40 for the Windows version — so cost is not a factor.

Even though I made the switch to Scrivener, I still believe that WriteWay is a fine program for those just looking for some structure to their fiction writing without concern to interaction with other programs.

Additionally, I purchased a development program called Snowflake Pro, and companion programs to Scrivener called Aeon Timeline and Scrapple. I’ll discuss those programs in a later post.

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