I'm one person who, in combination with others, make up the undeserving masses who didn't qualify for the private beta Scrivener 3 program, however, in our favour we have contributed over the years to hoist Scrivener onto its pedestal of the most popular writing app in the world. So even though I and many others didn't make the cut for the beta program, it's not as if I didn't do anything. I bought licenses for Scrivener versions 1 and 2.
All this is to butter you up so I can get around to saying what I really intend to say: On 11 November 2017 I start a month's overseas sabbatical to write the book that will change the world
Wouldn't it be cool for you to one day tell your grandchildren that the book that changed the world was written on Scrivener 3? But this can only happen if one of the following occur:1) Release Scrivener 3 before 11 November 2017. You realise that most of us don't read manuals and see instructional videos. Many of us just dive in and twiddle to figure out the software, which, if designed well, is all most of us need.
2) Release a public beta of Scrivener 3. It is evident from your blog posts that any release of a Beta now will pretty much be the real thing.
3) Give me a special, late entry permit to the private beta program
And please, no more blog posts until S3 comes out. It is clear you have no awareness how each blog post is an infliction of cruelty of such order that only one writer can inflict on another writer. Each blog hammers the nails into our hands, with the message: "These features are what you cannot have access to right now".
Enough of any humor. I speak plainly. From the reader-comments below some of your blog posts, in the worldwide Scrivener community, there are quite a few loyal (I remembered to add that word) Scrivener users who are soon commencing writing projects, and who would dearly benefit from acquiring early access to Scrivener 3, even whilst your team is scurrying to finish the promotional and educational materials - but not needed for those of us users whose badge of honor is to be able to figure out any piece of software merely by twiddling with it ourselves.
For these undeserving but loyal Scrivener users, are you able to open up the private beta program, if we can submit reasons of why we really, really, really need Scrivener 3 earlier than the delayed launch? After all, you had intended S3 to be out in time for NaNoWriMo
?And letting us into the private beta program now won't hurt anyone. We promises - cross our hearts etc - to keep it confidential so you don't miss out on a marketing punch when Scrivener 3 is eventually and officially launched.
I realise you want to have the perfect Scrivener 3 launch, with all the manuals, videos and websites all nicely done up. But the deserving few, who were part of the beta program, managed to operate and use the beta software without those - so, it stands to reason, there are lots more of us out here who could get along just fine without having to wait for the manuals, videos and website advertising.
Over the decades of dialoguing with you on the literatureandlatte forum, I haven't seen you relent once, but deep inside, I know you have a writer's heart, and this is an appeal from one writer to another to ask for access to the private beta program in time for my writing sabbatical starting 11 November 2017. I make this appeal, not just for myself, but for the several writers who have stated, in comments under your blog posts, that we have serious writing projects coming up soon that will significantly benefit from the magnificent writing tool you have created for the writers of the world.
Yours sincerely
Scrivener User since version 1
