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I'm not sure if anyone has used Scrivener. I haven't yet but I've heard good things.

I bring it up because there's a deal on Daily Dot to get it for half price: http://www.dailydot.com/bazaar/scrive...

Worth it?

I use it. I love it. It makes it easy to write without hassle.

It is a powerful tool, simple to use. It has a variety of templates, the cork board allows easy outlining and organizing. You can do research and store it all in one place. It makes backups easy. It has versioning. It can create eBooks natively. It has a massive ton of features.

Another great this about it is there are many training vids for it on Youtube.

I always do early drafts in Scrivener. My editor uses MSWord and it exports to that format.

Love it.

Cool, thanks! I might try it for my next book.

I've recently downloaded the 30 day trial version of Scrivener directly from their website https://www.literatureandlatte.com/sc...
It's a great way of testing out what it can do. So far I'm impressed and think it will be great for organising and writing the next novel. Thanks for letting us know about the offer!

Love it!

I bought it a couple of years ago and will certainly be using it for my sequel. I like being organized!

Mostly I do what Martin does. Early drafts. However, I have used it to convert mss to .mobi and .pdf files that are excellent.

I do use it exclusively for my blog posts. Great organizer. That said, my website server works best with .docx so I paste with 'merge formatting' to word before I paste post on blog.

You should be happy with it.

Yes! Get it!

I adore Scrivener! It's great for first drafts and just getting the words down.

It's great for keeping me organized, even for short stories. I wouldn't want to write without it.

I'll add my recommendation to Scrivener. I use it for all my writing, even final production. Scrivener's compile options allow you to create final-quality output from the same source material for all of your publishing needs. Start with the pre-built compile templates and tweak as needed. I have a compile setting for eBook, print, review copy, manuscript, etc. Same source content, just different publishing settings. My final eBook version and my final interior layout for printing were made directly from Scrivener -- no other tools needed except for cover design (which I hired out). These compile settings can get complicated to set up, but don't worry about it until you need it. Same with other sophisticated features. Learn them when you need them. Until then, just write. And move scenes and chapters around with drag and drop. If one scene or section isn't ready yet, it's easy to exclude from your working draft and mark it with notes and comments and tags that don't appear in your draft output.

Note that the Mac version has a few additional features not in the Windows version.

There's also an iOS version that works brilliantly with the other versions. Create your projects on Dropbox and you can access them from the iPad or computer. Just do a sync (one button) before you start editing and a sync after, and you can work on whatever device is handy. I've been using this feature since the iOS version came out last year, and I've had no problems with it at all. If I forget to sync, it usually warns me, and if things ever get out of sync you don't lose any work. It shows you where the conflict is.

I've been writing with it exclusively for over a year now and won't go back to Word (at least not for early drafts).

I haven't tried doing final drafts or eBook formatting with it yet. We'll see eventually.

Half price is definitely worth it, though. As others have said, it's extremely handy for keeping writing projects organized. I'm slowly converting all my works in progress over to it.

Haven't found anything nearly as handy as this in a long, long time. I do database work professionally and I like to think of the move from a word processor environment to Scrivener kind of like moving data from spreadsheets to a full featured database: Everything's in one place, easily organized and moved around.

There are a lot of features you probably won't use, but having them available could be extremely nice.

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