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Unless it's got better Scrivener is pretty awful though - bought it for my first book and gave up, both books I've written were written with other tools


Interesting, I've written two novels and over a dozen radio drama series in Scrivener. Currently using it to finish first draft on a spec film script. It's pretty fantastic. Interested to hear why it didn't work for you - especially if the alternative is word.

Cross platform support (including iPad), saving direct to dropbox, full screen distraction free mode, easy sorting of chapters / scenes, rapid offline export to PDF (unlike say Celtex). Scrivener just blows everything else I've used to write out of the water.


What did you use instead?


One was in asciidoc (the publisher's tool of choice), the other was in pages (only a 10,000 word book)

Working draft for current one is in Ulysses but I’m not feeling it ATM so might switch

They're technical books rather than novels so although I prefer markdown I find it doesn't quite stretch far enough for me




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