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Scrivener + NaNoWriMo: Extended Trial and Discounts
Use Scrivener for free during NaNoWriMo 2024.
We’re proud to be sponsoring NaNoWriMo for the 15th year in a row, with some great NaNoWriMo discounts, an extended free trial – and our NaNoWriMo template with a pre-built 50,000 word target. But first, a little about us…
Scrivener is a powerful content-generation tool for writers that allows you to concentrate on composing and structuring long and difficult documents. While it gives you complete control of the formatting, its focus is on helping you get to the end of that awkward first draft.
Your Complete Writing Studio
Writing a novel, research paper, script or any long-form text involves more than hammering away at the keys until you reach the end. Collecting research, ordering fragmented ideas, shuffling index cards in search of that elusive structure—most writing software is fired up only after much of the hard work is done. Enter Scrivener: a word processor and project management tool that stays with you from that first, unformed idea all the way through to the final draft. Outline and structure your ideas, take notes, view research alongside your writing and compose the constituent pieces of your text in isolation or in context. Scrivener won’t tell you how to write—it just makes all the tools you have scattered around your desk available in one application, leaving you free to focus on the words.
For more information about Scrivener, see the main product page.
*Although a NaNoWriMo or Camp NaNoWriMo demo cannot be provided for iOS, both platforms’ demo versions are ready to sync with it, should you choose to add a tablet or phone into the mix. Read more about the iOS version.
NaNoWriMo 2024 Trial—for macOS and Windows
Scrivener’s first users were Wrimos—we posted an early beta of Scrivener for the Mac on the NaNo Technology forums back in 2005, and those initial users kindly spread the word about Scrivener and provided feedback that has helped shape and improve the program. It has therefore been our great pleasure to give something back by sponsoring NaNoWriMo and Camp NaNo for a number of years, and so here we are sponsoring NaNoWriMo 2024, with some great offers for those taking part. We’re also offering a special trial version that will last you all the way from mid-October through to early December, even if you’ve tried Scrivener before—read on for details.
Special NaNo Trial Version
Scrivener’s trial normally runs for thirty days of use, but so that you can start using Scrivener before NaNoWriMo begins without worrying about the trial expiring part-way through November, the special NaNo trial available on this page will run from October 15th all the way up until December 7th. So you can download it, get used to its features, use it for your plotting and planning—and if you like it you can buy Scrivener after the event at a discounted price using one of the special offers below.
Purchasing for the Windows version: At this time, in order to purchase and activate Scrivener, you will need to download the normal version of the software. The installer can be run directly over your demo to convert it, without losing any settings or ongoing projects. If you haven’t created your project yet, see below for how you can download the special NaNoWriMo template, with instructions for installing it into the normal version.
50% Discount for All NaNoWriMo 2024 Winners
If you achieve your word-count goal to become a 2024 Winner, you will be eligible for a 50% discount off the regular licence of Scrivener (normally $59.99). Details will appear on your Winner Goodies page at the start of December.
20% Discount for Everyone Else
Even if you don’t reach your target this year, you can still get 20% off the regular price of Scrivener by entering the discount code NANOWRIMO24 into the coupon code text field of our online web store until December 7th.
Getting Started
Windows users: Click on the Windows “Download” button below, then choose to save the .exe file if prompted. Once downloaded, run the .exe file to install Scrivener. (Note: if you have tested Scrivener for Windows in the past, we recommend that you uninstall any existing version of Scrivener on your machine first.)
Mac users: Click on the macOS “Download” button below. Scrivener will download as a disk image (.dmg) file. Once it has downloaded, double-click on the downloaded file (ScrivenerNaNo.dmg) in the Finder. This will open a window showing the Scrivener icon and a shortcut to the Applications folder. Drag the Scrivener icon to the Applications folder icon to install. (You can then eject the disk image in the Finder sidebar.)
NaNoWriMo Free Trial Downloads
Getting Up and Running
To get up and running quickly, we recommend you take a look at our introductory video on our YouTube or Vimeo channels, which shows how to use all the basic features of Scrivener. After that, if you want a really in-depth guide to Scrivener’s capabilities, you can go through the interactive tutorial in the program itself by choosing “Interactive Tutorial” from the Help menu (or from the “Getting Started” section of the project template chooser). It’s rather thorough, and will take you a couple of hours to complete, but once you’ve finished it you will have a good understanding of what Scrivener can do.
The NaNoWriMo Novel Template
When you launch the NaNoWriMo 2024 edition of Scrivener and choose File > New Project, you will find a special NaNoWriMo novel template available in the “Fiction” section of the project templates chooser. We’ve put this template together especially for Wrimos—it’s based on the regular “Novel” template but it will create a project with a NaNoWriMo-standard 50,000 word target set up for you and includes several other extras to help with NaNoWriMo. Regular users of Scrivener who aren’t using the special NaNoWriMo trial version can download these templates below (you don’t need to download these files if you are using the special NaNoWriMo trial version, because the NaNoWriMo version comes with these templates already built-in).
Download the NaNoWriMo project template for:
Installing the Template: click “Options” from the bottom of the New Project template chooser and using “Import Templates…”, select the downloaded .scrivtemplate file. Once installed, the template will appear in the Fiction template category.
If you have any questions , just ask us at: https://www.literatureandlatte.com/contact-us
Good luck reaching your 50,000 words this year!
Keith & the L&L Team