Take Control of Scrivener 2

Introduction

Writers have a nearly endless choice of tools. The number of word processors, text editors, and other text applications available today is staggering. But most of them are designed for linear writing, where you start at the beginning and write until you get to the end.

Scrivener is designed with the assumption that most writers of long-form works—novels, non-fiction books, theses, screenplays, and so on—don’t write that way. Scrivener provides a unique environment that frees you from the constraints of beginning, middle, and end. If you like, you can start at the end of your work, then write the beginning, and then fill out the middle. As you write, you can easily move scenes, sections, and chapters, until your work is exactly as ...