That is no longer true: Scrivener for iOS is, as I write this, just a few days from release, and I have been testing a beta version for the past week. It would have been wonderful to be able to open my book project on my iPad instead, but there was no iOS version of Scrivener. If I had any late-night inspirations, for example, I’d write them in Notes on my iPad and then, during the next day’s writing session, copy to the book project on my Mac. The only drawback to using Scrivener was that it chained me to my desktop when I wanted to work on the book. By the end of November I had exceeded 50,000 words, and by the first week in February I had produced a completed first draft. I was glad I did: the app’s many features aimed at meeting the needs and working styles of creative writers served me well, enabling me to turn out the nearly 1700 words a day I needed to meet my NaNoWriMo I had never actually used Scrivener for its intended purpose, even though I knew it quite well, having edited Kirk McElhearn’s “ Take Control of Scrivener 2,” so this was a perfect opportunity for me to put theory into practice. I had an idea for a novel that had been kicking around in my head for years, and this seemed a perfect opportunity to get it into manuscript form.Īlthough I had various word processors available to me, I decided to use Literature & Latte’s Scrivener, a Mac (and Windows) app tailored to the needs of creative writers. Last November, facing a lull in my work queue, I decided to take advantage of National Novel Writing Month (aka NaNoWriMo), a project in which participants attempt to write at least 50,000 words of a novel or non-fiction book.
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