

Even now, when I'm in low motivation mode, those little visual cues of my novel's progress is sometimes enough to keep me going. But Scrivener's ubiquitous word counting and daily targets definitely helped propel me in the first few months when I was starting this series of books. I'm not one of those people who tweets their word counts & I don't consider word count a meaningful measure of progress.

Here are the main factors that I think made a difference for me: I have two novels finished now, and am working on a third. When I started writing again last year, it seemed natural to go back to it, and I found its many conveniences really helped propel me. I put the novel down after a few thousand words, and Scrivener sat idle for a few years. With the above to consider and much more to discover, Scrivener is truly a great content generator for all kinds of writers.I bought Scrivener years ago when I was in a similar place - had a novel I wanted to write, thought it would help motivate/organize me. If your project gets too complex and is hard to follow content evolution, documentation and other factors, Scrivener enables you to create collections which you can easily manage and organize. Each of them comes with the appropriate document structure and all you have to do is fill in the pages with text, tables, images and anything you want. You can opt from fiction, non-fiction, scriptwriting and miscellaneous. When creating a new file, Scrivener offers you the possibility to use one if its many project templates. You can create and customize an outliner and use it to keep track of your document’s metadata in one or more levels. However, Scrivener offers you a series of tools that make it stand out from similar applications. Everything about it respects the standard means of typing text content. You get to choose the font type, styling, size, alignment and color. Scrivener’s ‘Editor’ offers you the classic means of creating a text file. The binder can be customized with new folders and allows you to organize the pages of your document anyway you see fit and you even get a cork board on which to sort and preview the text.

The first consists initially of three categories, ‘Draft’, ‘Research’ and ‘Trash’ and they are used to store pages and content you need for your work. Scrivener displays a user-friendly interface with a very good looking design that is separated into two main components, the ‘Binder’ and the ‘Editor’. Scrivener is a content generation tool which enables you to create a text based document while having complete control over its layout and formatting. Whether you’re writing a short novel, academics paper, screenplay or an elaborate journalistic article, you need to take into consideration the layout and structure of the material.
