L.J. Writes

So I first heard about Scrivener from amanda_violet's post, and thought it sounded neat. Today I finally got around to downloading the trial version and running the tutorial thingy to see what all the fuss is about.

Now I am hooked. The tutorial, by the by, is not only a great bit of customer service but also good business sense on the part of the developers, because it so elegantly demonstrates the potential and applications of the software. Within pages I was getting SO MANY IDEAS about how to use this in my own writing projects. Story divided into chapters, chapters into scenes, with a structural bird's-eye view of story and chapters? Hell yeah!

While importing my story projects into Scrivener would take a bit of doing, I could see the academic applications of the program, too. To practice using the functionality and, incidentally, to help me in my day job (priorities, people) I decided to revise and structure my course syllabus as my first Scrivener project. I imported the preexisting syllabus file and got to work structuring it into a Scrivener document tree for modularity and flexibility.

As you look at the screencap, keep in mind that I only downloaded the software today and this is the first project I have ever created with Scrivener. I didn't even get through the whole tutorial in my impatience to try it for myself, it's that easy and intuitive. (Edit: Looking back, I'd have been better served if I'd read the whole tutorial, since the part about splitting and merging documents would have made the job a lot easier.)

( Behold the awesome )