You can view these in outline form with various filters and even “live” calculated metadata like scene or chapter word counts. You can assign fields like the POV, notes, arbitrary custom fields etc etc to scenes and chapters. Scrivener has meta data on the “object” (document) level. This allows you to SEE the structure of your book in a tree like binder on the side, and to instantly hop around between different sections, or put multiple sections up against each other. Reorganizing the structure (dragging scenes between chapters, reordering chapters, splitting scenes and chapters) takes seconds instead of many error prone minutes.ģ. You break your project down as you like (I use folders for chapters and documents under those folders) as scenes. Most importantly, Scrivener is structured. I’ve written a book that was at one point 186,000 words in it, so it’s no toy.Ģ. I write 8-16 hours a day too, all the time. It starts instantly, it remembers where you are instantly. Here are just a few reasons why it’s so great:ġ. It totally and utterly rules in nearly every way, and anyone writing a long structured document (any book) is pretty crazy to be using a flat editor like Word. Scrivener is a specialty word processor designed for those who write large documents or books. For my first novel, The Darkening Dream, I started in word and then switched to Scrivener about 60% of the way through the first draft.
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