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Writing in Scrivener - is it easier if you start out in it?
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Robert
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Sep 02, 2011 09:14PM
I downloaded the Windows beta for Scrivener, since many writers rave about it, and imported a couple of projects into it to work on. To me, it seems like a lot of work to get everything set up inside Scrivener after the project has begun. So tell me, Scrivener devotees - does starting out a project in Scrivener make it easier? What has been your experience with it?
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Hm. Well, I imported an existing project that needed serious editing into it and did fine. It may depend on your working style. Now I can't live without Scrivener; all my projects are in Scriveners files because it's so easy to keep all my notes and research in with the manuscript(s)--yeah, I keep all the books in my series in the same Scrivener project. Makes it easy to look stuff up.So short answer: Not necessarily. Importing an existing project worked for me.
Dang, Literature and Latte should frickin' pay me. ;)
I have completed seven projects using Scrivener and have four in-work at present. Three of the completed works started off on different platform and were migrated into the app because background and research notes were getting too complicated to keep as separate documents. The other four completed projects were begun from scratch in Scrivener.
To be fair, it doesn't work for everyone. I like doing research, planning and outlining my stories before I start writing, which fits the Scrivener work model.
... but I've also used it for pantsing a couple of projects and it's working out just fine.
It just depends upon whether you can fit your methodology into the way the programme is structured.
... and in case anyone is interested, we have a fairly comprehensive thread on Writing Tools over on the On Fiction Writing group here on GoodReads.
I'm leaning right now towards using Word and OneNote, simply because I have a wide monitor and can put both of them side-by-side and still read each without squinting. This gives me a lot of the functionality I get with Scrivener and yWriter, and they're programs I already have.
