Re:NovelWriter 1.0 – A markdown-like editor for writing novels
by youngtaff on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @05:26PM
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Unless it's got better Scrivener is pretty awful though - bought it for my first book and gave up, both books I've written were written with other tools
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Re:NovelWriter 1.0 – A markdown-like editor for writing novels
by dbspin on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @07:46PM
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Interesting, I've written two novels and over a dozen radio drama series in Scrivener. Currently using it to finish first draft on a spec film script. It's pretty fantastic. Interested to hear why it didn't work for you - especially if the alternative is word.
Cross platform support (including iPad), saving direct to dropbox, full screen distraction free mode, easy sorting of chapters / scenes, rapid offline export to PDF (unlike say Celtex). Scrivener just blows everything else I've used to write out of the water.
Re:NovelWriter 1.0 – A markdown-like editor for writing novels
by sien on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @05:33PM
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What did you use instead?
Re:NovelWriter 1.0 – A markdown-like editor for writing novels
by youngtaff on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @03:56AM
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One was in asciidoc (the publisher's tool of choice), the other was in pages (only a 10,000 word book)
Working draft for current one is in Ulysses but I’m not feeling it ATM so might switch
They're technical books rather than novels so although I prefer markdown I find it doesn't quite stretch far enough for me