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“Scrivener is where I live. I'm planning the next novel, two screenplays and a couple of short stories with it and it's amazing how fluid the software makes the process. I genuinely think this is the biggest software advance for writers since the word processor.” - Michael Marshall Smith, best-selling author of Spares, Only Forward and The Straw Men. “The last few years have seen the appearance of several OS X applications designed for the use of writers. Many of these applications are very good -- but every one is in some way lacking. I've tried them all, and none has been more than a temporary home; a good place to stay until something better came along. And guess what -- it finally did. SCRIVENER incorporates and improves the best aspects of its progenitors and, in doing so, exceeds them all. As a writer's application, Scrivener is damn near perfect; it means outlines, treatments and then first drafts can be put together in the same application.” - Neil Cross, long-listed for the 2004 Booker Prize for his novel Always the Sun and screenwriter for the acclaimed BBC1 show Spooks. “Thank you for the excellent and extraordinary work you've done on Scrivener; anyone can write a sodding book but it takes cojones to produce a writer's toolbench like this. Having played with it for a couple of weeks, it's now up and running in anger. Score so far: 1 film outline, 1 chapter of the new book, 2 radio scripts, 1 piece for the Observer, 2 Independent on Sunday op-eds, 3 lectures, and on it goes... Scrivener fills the gap between wild promiscuous note-taking (DevonThink), mapping connections and lines of argument (Tinderbox) and producing the final draft (Mellel). My workflow is now complete. Scrivener has done something unforgiveable: removed my last excuse for idling.” - Michael Bywater, journalist and author of Big Babies: Or, Why Can't We Just Grow Up? and Lost Worlds: What Have We Lost and Where Did It Go? “I've been trying so-called 'writers' software' for more than twenty years and always stumbling back to Word. Until Scrivener. Good software is like good writing, invisible to the user. The focus, simplicity and clarity is astonishing, and the absence of hype and jargon just as welcome too. The more I use it, the more I realise it can replace every other application I've adopted over the years for writing books that are often lengthy and involve substantial amounts of detailed research. The seventh book in the Nic Costa series will be delivered from within Scrivener, and the eighth will begin as an outline there too. Finally a true word processor for authors has arrived.” - David Hewson (www.davidhewson.com), author of the best-selling Nic Costa series of novels including The Seventh Sacrament and The Lizard's Bite and former technology columnist for the Sunday Times. “My greatest ally as a script writer isn't the pen or word processor -- it's the corkboard. A mental playground to organize my thoughts. For years I've been searching for the digital equivalent -- a place in the computer where I can structure a script, or pin up the logline for a potential TV series, or keep an inspiring image. In the real world, those snippets and index cards often end up buried somewhere, forgotten. With Scrivener, I can keep them tacked to my virtual corkboard forever, waiting for the day when I happily rediscover them... Scrivener has so many useful features, there's almost too many to list. The full screen mode can't be beat for blocking out the distractions of the internet and e-mail -- if only it could unplug my ethernet cable to keep me from goofing off. I've tried other writing programs for the Mac, but none of them really fit my style. If I had the brains and the patience, Scrivener is the program I would've written for myself. Try it, you'll be hooked.” - Mike Sussman, Writer-Producer, Star Trek: Voyager, Enterprise, Threshold. “Scrivener is the biggest leap forward in writing software since the venerable days of WordPerfect, and believe me, I've tried them all. It adapts to my workflow, rather than imposing one on me, which is vital for working on multiple books in different formats. Scrivener has become my primary writing tool for both comics and prose, and unlike certain other writing programs I actually look forward to working in it all day. My productivity is up, my blood pressure is down, and my credit card didn't even blink. I look back and wonder how I ever worked without it.” - Comics writer and novelist Antony Johnston, author of Wasteland, the Alex Rider graphic novels and Stealing Life. “While there are dozens of reasons to buy a Mac, if you're a novelist, you only need one. Scrivener. I use it every day, and it's the only thing that's had such a positive impact on my writing---making my work both easier and more fun---since I went from the typewriter to a computer back in 1986. The notecarding feature alone is worth the price of admission. But then, so are ten or fifteen other features I could name.” - Holly Lisle, author of The Secret Texts and Talyn. “I just finished my book. In Scrivener. So, it works. Thank you for a great program.” - Gertjan Van Dijk, writer and user from the Netherlands. |
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