I’ve also used it for many other projects where I wanted the ability to zoom in and out at different levels of detail, apply a wide range of formatting and create linked mind-maps for complex projects. I’ve been using it for about five years and used it to plan all of Blood River, from the outline/timeline to character relationship diagrams. If you want a powerful mind-mapping package that will let you do everything from free-form thinking to timelines and organisational charts, you’ll need something like Xmind (and there are a lot of mind-mapping packages). While the learning curve can be steep if you’re coming over from Word or Google Docs, I can honestly find very little to say against Scrivener, since it even lets you export to Word, PDF and many other formats including ebooks.ģ Xmind. The current price is £47, with a big discount if you take part in Nanowrimo or you’re a student, and there’s a 30-day free trial (a genuine 30 days of non-consecutive use). Scrivener is both ridiculously feature-rich (after three years I’m still finding new ways to use it) and absurdly cheap. When you’re writing, you can see your ideas for the current scene in a synopsis sidebar.įinally, the outliner view shows the same synopsis information along with things like word counts, status indicators, when you wrote them and progress bars if you’ve set yourself targets. The corkboard gives you a set of virtual index cards where you can scribble your ideas for characters, locations, parts, chapters and scenes - in as much or as little detail as you want - and play with their order. The binder sidebar lets you organise the structure of your parts, chapters and scenes, which you can colour-code to show their status (or by narrator or location, if that’s your thing), and drag-and-drop to change their order. When it comes to planning a novel, there are three key features: Many amateur and professional authors swear by Scrivener, the long-form writing tool from Literature & Latte. Scrivener is an almost-complete author’s toolkitġ Scrivener.
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