![]() When it comes to editing, all I need are the editing features that Word excels at. ![]() When it comes to edits, the extra features of Scrivener aren't important because I'm not creating a book where I need note and chapter shifting features. Scrivener merely strips out most of the unnecessary components for an author and adds nice features that authors find useful for creating books. As it happens it does pretty good, but I can't say it is better in that respect. Initially I was concerned that Scrivener's word processing would not be up to the task of replacing Word. Scrivener is only a word processor set in a a writer friendly shell. I feel Word is still the premier word processor on the market. That said.I don't have an issue with Word. ![]() I asked about this, and found many authors still went through corrections on hard copy. 0-] Reply DeleteĪctually, my publisher did ask me if I wanted a hard copy of the manuscript edits which I found amazing in this age of digital communication. For my needs, I just wrote some code to strip everything out of Word and import it properly back into Scrivener for me, but most people aren't programmers who can just whip that up on a whim. You probably don't have the dislike of Word that I do, but I've grown to really love Scrivener, so jumping to Word for the last 40% of the writing process just sucks. I know you're just getting started with Scrivener, but how do you see this issue working itself out? Do you even submit an actual Word doc for edits? Maybe not with your Ridan-published works, but I can definitely see it going forward with a traditional publisher. I can't stand Word, so this was not acceptable for me. I've read many readers who simply go from Scrivener to Word for the editor and then just stay in Word for the rest of the process. Scrivener can easily export to a Word doc, that's not the issue, but once it's in the editor's hands, and they make changes, it's not easy to get back to Scrivener. Editors these days all still use Word for everything, and Scrivener really lacks the "track changes" abilities that editors love Word for. The only real issue I've run into is when my book was ready to go to the editor. I can't imagine going back to a simple word processor these days (except when I'm on my iPad). And I concluded that to actually write all you needed was any basic word processor like Word or Open Office as all the extra bells and whistles only served to distract from the task at hand. In other words, they were great for people who wanted to pretend to be writers. I tried several of the available writing programs-those applications supposedly designed for writers as opposed to general office use-and found them all to be just a lot of gadgets that were more fun to play with than a useful tool for writing a novel. But last year around this time I tried the Windows beta and was not impressed. I even know of one person who bought a Mac just to be able to use Scrivener. I had heard great things about Scrivener, mostly from folks with Macs. My computer runs Windows 7 and back then I was using MS Word and was having trouble seeing the point in using any of the writing programs. When I began writing these posts I started by discussing the various tools of the trade, in particular word processors, one of those being Scrivener.
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