There's no futzing around with the look of the drafted text. Scrivener does without the conventions of the word processor. Drafting text is only one aspect of its capability. Management becomes exponentially more difficult if you are writing a series, or you are a world-builder with a meticulously crafted world chronicled in what amounts to a small encyclopaedia.īy contract, Scrivener is a potent project management tool for writers. Writing a novel necessitates working with hundreds of files, containing not only the segments of your manuscript but also your notes, research material, and so on. Word has an inherent weakness - it is bound to a single-document metaphor, where what you see is what you get. This because Word shows what you see, not what you mean. Word can show you the structure of a single document, but unless you write your novel in a single file (and please, never do that), it cannot show you the structure of your entire manuscript. Managing a complex narrative structure in Word, while not impossible - lots of writers do it - is undoubtedly harder from a logistical and visual standpoint. Where a non-fiction writer can pin their structure on hierarchical headings and sections, novelists weave their structure into the fabric of the text. Novels appear simple, with minimal formatting for text and chapters, but that belies their structural complexity of beats, scenes, chapters, acts, plot points, subplots and character arcs. However, novels are not simple documents. For simple documents, this approach works fine. Word encourages you to write your document from beginning to end, and as you write, you see exactly how your document appears in its final form.
Microsoft has created a powerful document preparation system for office workers who need to produce short and medium form letters, reports, and so on. I'd argue it's not a word processor at all - at least not in the classic sense of Microsoft Word. Scrivener is much more than a word processor. Where differences occur, I will try to point them out. The features shown in this tutorial should be applicable to the forthcoming Scrivener 3 for Windows.
SCRIVENER MEANING SERIES
NOTE: This tutorial series covers Scrivener 3.
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