Scrivener: Feature-Packed, Intuitive and Customizable

I mulled over this purchase for a while, since $50 is a pretty no-nonsense price to pay for an app. However, I should have plunked down the cash a lot sooner. Scrivener is worth every penny. Even my writer’s procrastination is productive with Scrivener—sometimes I get bored and I go hunting through the toolbar just for fun. Every time I do this, I locate a new tool that I consider to be not just productive, but essential. Composition Mode is a great example. It transforms what is admittedly a massive, slightly cluttered toolbox into a minimal, full-screen text editor, with full access to your entire manuscript and some other useful functions in a popup menu at the bottom of the screen. Want to see the big picture again? Hit escape. There are tools for storyboarding, note-taking, character development, settings, and those are just a few of the many tools for fiction writing. There are also plenty of useful research functions that I have yet to monkey around with. Sure, it’s expensive, but it has 757 lifetime ratings with a five-star average for a reason. It’s that good!

P.S. — When you search for something in the help menu and find it, Scrivener opens the corresponding menu in the toolbar and highlights the exact location of the tool you’re looking for! Did I mention this program is worth every penny? :)

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