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I Use Scrivener Every Single Day — Here’s WHY and HOW

July 14, 2020 by Melanie Leave a Comment

I use Scrivener every single day -- here's why and how

 

I use Scrivener every single day.  It is without a doubt one of my top five “must have” tools because it makes my life easier, makes my work more organized, allows me to work faster and is a delight to use.

Scrivener works on both PC and Apple devices.  It is incredibly cheap and amazingly versatile.  It resides ON your computer though you can store backups of your files in the clouds if you’d like.

You Can Use Scrivener To:

  • write books
  • draft an outline
  • keep track of your characters, physical characteristics, quirks, background and growth
  • research anything
  • store extra material, research and reference links right beside where you will NEED that information
  • store images and whole website pages
  • create “cards” to track and move things around
  • move entire chapters around.
  • keep track of drafts
  • keep snippets of stuff you took out and may want to use later
  • write and track articles
  • track a series

Scrivener is especially elegant and useful for anyone writing a series.  It will help you track your characters and the continuing action from book to book … all without having to open multiple separate files.

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What Scrivener Isn’t.

Scrivener is NOT intuitive to use.  Yes you can just start and stumble around looking for help on the internet whenever you run into a problem.  The biggest challenge with figuring it out yourself is that you often don’t know what you don’t know … so you can’t look for help.  The holes in your knowledge will plague you, mystify you and frustrate you.

If you are smart, you’ll  take a course that will shave days or weeks off your learning curve.

I have learned dozens of programs on my own, and thought that people were exaggerating the non-intuitiveness of Scrivener.  I was about to throw Scrivener into a scrap heap when  I came across a course that looked good.  It turned out that  Scrivener is actually EASY to use, but only if you know what you are doing!  I had everything nailed and organized within two short days!

Click here to  download and test out Scivener for 30 days.

The course I took and HIGHLY recommend is Scrivener Unleashed.    I not only learned how to set up novels and non-fiction books  but I discovered the fact that I could use Scrivener for my article writing.  Check out my review on Scrivener Unleashed.

The crazy thing is … Article Writing is what I use Scrivener for the most.   It helps me organize my articles, keep track of ideas and research for each article, track my articles through various drafts to the final published article … all with a click of a button, or drag-and-drop functionality.

As of this moment I have over 450 article ideas and article drafts for six different blogs.  What a godsend … it has streamlined and organized my articles beyond anything I previously cobbled together.

 

Here is a screenshot of how I organize my articles:  you can see that I  have a section to keep track of my tasks — what I am going to do next. I have a master list, AND  I track my ideas, drafts and finished posted articles.  I also have a section to track my social media promotions.

 

 

 

Before Scrivener, tracking my articles was a nightmare.  I would lose the articles,  have multiple versions of an article, never be able to find the research related to an article and would spend hours looking for an article I knew was “somewhere.”

Now my articles are organized, easy to find and easy to access.  One of the real sanity savers and a major time saver is the ability to open files with one click. It takes one second to open a different article.  I will never go back to Microsoft Word again!

Seamless. Easy. Elegant!    Thank You Scrivener for such an amazing program.   Thank You David Lee Martin for your kick ass training program.
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